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Yugoslavian Dinkic spoke at Finance Fair on Monday
YUGOSLAVIA - International Finance Fair Finmar, gathering bankers, brokers, auditors, consultants, insurance and other companies, opened today in Novi Sad. Governor of the Central Bank of Yugoslavia Mladjan Dinkic said at today's opening that Yugoslavia…
Estonia's case for euro membership
LETTER - Letter published in the Financial Times, UK edition, 21 October.
Complexity will not cut banks' risk
LETTER - Letter published in the Financial Times, UK edition, 21 October.
The inconsistency of the anti-euro lobby
ARTICLE - Consider these two assertions. We cannot possibly join the euro because sterling is grotesquely overvalued - locking in today's exchange rate would condemn the economy to stagnation. Giving up sterling would be madness - robbing Britain of a…
Bank of Japan Monthly Report, October 2002
REPORT - The Bank of Japan published its Monthly Report of Recent Economic and Financial Developments, October 2002, on 16 October. In its report the Bank says that Japan's economy has stabilised as a whole, but clear signs of recovery have not yet been…
Challenges to Central Banking
REPORT - Learnings from the International Conference on "Challenges to Central Banking from Globalized Financial System" (held at the IMF in Washington D.C. 16-17 September, 2002.) Published by the State Bank of Pakistan.
Sveriges Riksbank Inflation Report 3rd Q 2002
REPORT - Sweden's central bank has published its Inflation Report for the third quarter of 2002. Since the time of the June Report inflation has come down somewhat more than was expected. In August the 12-month changes in the CPI and UND1X were 2.0 and 2…
Statement from the Sveriges Riksbank
STATEMENT - Statement regarding the report "Stabiliseringspolitik i valutaunionen", Stabilisation policy in the monetary union, 18 October.
Dodge on the search for higher productivity
SPEECH - In the speech 'The Search for Higher Productivity' made on 17 October, David Dodge of the Bank of Canada said too much focus is placed on our day-to-day concerns with the global uncertainty. Over the long haul, the key to growing incomes and…
CentralBankNet Monday Special Feature
SPECIAL FEATURE - In this weeks special feature CentralBankNet looks at moves which could see a shake up in the way the ECB investigates fraud.
Fed's McTeer says U.S. recovery so far jobless
US - Dallas Federal Reserve President Robert McTeer said on Thursday the U.S. economic recovery had so far been jobless, but the unemployment rate here still has stayed well below Europe's.
Japan's Koizumi vows 'bold' action on economy
JAPAN - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi vowed Friday to take "bold" action to pull Japan's economy out of its slump and stressed the importance of dialogue to resolve concerns over North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
Kozlov - legal protection would boost confidence
RUSSIA - Russia's Central Bank has come out for greater legal protection of deals involving derivative securities on the national securities market and for introducing Russian depository receipts.
Gulf asks ECB to study benefits of GCC currency
OMAN - Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have entrusted the European Central Bank (ECB) to conduct a study on the modalities to be followed while integrating the economies of member countries and to switch over to a common currency, said the…
Balcerowicz: Maastricht convergence opportunity
INTERVIEW - Summary of an interview with Leszek Balcerowicz, governor of the National Bank of Poland and chief of its Monetary Policy Council. The interview was published in a recent issue of Gazeta Wyborcza.
Bank of Canada's Dodge softens rate hike stance
CANADA - David Dodge, the Bank of Canada governor, said yesterday economic growth would likely ease over the next three quarters so interest rates need not be raised as quickly as previously thought.
Ireland set for yes vote on Nice Treaty
IRELAND - Ireland looks to be on course to ratify the Nice Treaty, which paves the way for enlargement of the European Union, according to the last opinion poll before tomorrow's referendum.
Fed chief hits at intervention on sovereign debt
US - William McDonough, president of the New York Federal Reserve, yesterday broke ranks with other policymakers in the leading industrialised countries, expressing strong reservations about their drive to intervene between bankrupt governments and…
UK Treasury cool on Gibraltar making a mint
UK - While Gordon Brown expounds his policy on the euro, efforts by Gibraltar to set up a lucrative sideline in minting the coins have run into resistance from the UK chancellor, Gordon Brown.
Sveriges Riksbank Press Release
PRESS RELEASE - Jan Bergqvist appointed new Chairman of the General Council of the Riksbank, 18 October.
Sveriges Riksbank Press Release
PRESS RELEASE - The general public's confidence in the Riksbank remains high, 14 October.
Management and Supervision, Cross-Border E Banking
RESEARCH - Basel Committee Publications No. 93, October 2002. The purpose of this paper prepared by the Electronic Banking Group (EBG) of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is to further the Committee's dialogue with the banking industry and…
Japan already has its very own Greenspan
ARTICLE - "Japan needs an Alan Greenspan," some Japanese intellectuals recently demanded, and then went on to debate who the nation's own Greenspan might be. Given the country's dire economic straits, it is understandable that Japanese eyes are being…