
Christopher Jeffery
Editor-in-chief, Central Banking Publications
Christopher Jeffery is Editor-in-chief of Central Banking Publications, which includes the Central Banking Journal, CentralBanking.com and Central Banking On Air. He has a global role and is responsible for all of Central Banking's editorial content and teams. He has more than 20 years of journalistic experience covering asset management, banking, central banking, derivatives, economics, finance, fintech, public policy and risk management. Now based in London, Chris has previously lived in both the Americas and Asia. Recent interviews include those with Ahmed Alkholifey, Agustín Carstens, Mark Carney, Stanley Fisher, Stefan Ingves, Stephen Poloz, Raghuram Rajan, Robert Schiller, Christopher Sims, Ignazio Visco and Zhou Xiaochuan. Chris is Co-founder of the Central Banking Benchmarking Service and Founder of the Central Banking Awards. Chris was previously Editor of Asia Risk and Deputy Editor of Risk.net.
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Articles by Christopher Jeffery
Focus on risk culture is ‘remaking’ the banking system
Banks and regulators face new risk culture challenges
New frontiers for central banking
The dangers of placing too much reliance on macro-prudential policies
Twenty-five defining moments
Events that shaped the world of central banking during the past 25 years
MAS' Ravi Menon on Fed policy, China and global regulation
Singapore will have to live with higher inflation rate of around 2.5%
Agustín Carstens on Fed policy, shadow banking and Mexico's economic strengths
Bank of Mexico governor talks about flaws in the financial system and how to manage crises
Raghuram Rajan on the dangers of asset prices, policy spillovers and finance in India
RBI speaks about the challenges facing EM central banks
Open economy helps Chile brush aside Fed taper, says CBC's Vial
Chilean central banker fears China slowdown more than Fed taper
Amando Tetangco on central bank policy, fund flows and financial inclusion
Philippines can smooth impact of change in Fed policy, says BSP governor
Banque de France's Christian Noyer on bank runs, the euro crisis and a Fed-like ECB
Interview: Christian Noyer
Central Bank of Oman's Hamood Sangour Al Zadjali on the dollar, financial stability and Islamic finance
Interview: Hamood Sangour Al Zadjali
African central banks need to brace for Fed tapering, says Ghana's Opata
African central banks should consider raising FX reserves to cover potential reserves losses and stress in domestic fixed income markets from Fed tapering, says Bank of Ghana official
Sarb official warns about use of Aussie investments as a proxy for China
Australian and Chinese markets are 'vastly different', so investing in Australia as a proxy for China could be risky, South African Reserve Bank risk manager warns delegates at Nalm Africa 2013
Deploying ‘leapfrog' tech in Africa is no easy task, finds CBP Forum
Delegates and speakers debate technology outsourcing, data, staffing, project management and international co-operation at inaugural Central Banking Technology Forum
GCC states need to jettison ‘destabilising' US-dollar pegs, says Qatar's Al Khater
Oil-rich Gulf states should peg currencies to crawling trade-weighted baskets as US demand becomes less of a factor in driving oil prices, says Qatari central banker
Central Bank of UAE set to bolster ‘under-developed' local bond market
UAE has looked to economies with strong trade balances as role-models to help develop a domestic bond market; may issue government debt in the coming years
Carney defends Bank of England’s forward guidance
Bank of England governor defends use of state-contingent forward guidance despite bond market reaction; concern rises about mixed policy message
Nalm Asia 2013: Central banks should to look to ‘complexity science' to model economic systems
Central banks need to rethink their approaches to modelling financial markets if they want to deploy better predictive models in the future, according to speakers at Nalm Asia 2013
Nalm Asia 2013: Asia ‘not shaken' by QE exit talk, says the Philippines' Tuano-Amador
A combination of macroeconomic and macro-prudential tools should enable policy-makers in Asia to deal with large fund flows linked to an end of quantitative easing, says Philippines assistant governor