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Global best practice for central banks – new for September 2020!

With data sourced from central banks themselves, Central Banking’s Benchmarking Service provides expert commentary, interactive charting (see ‘Charts’) and analyst access across 12 core areas of central banking. Launching with Reserve Benchmarks 2020 (see ‘Reserves’), the service will expand to cover everything from supervision through to payments – see ‘Future Surveys’ above.

To find out more about access, use and how to take part please email [email protected]

About

Central Banking Institute

The Central Banking Institute is open to the world’s central banks on a membership basis. The CBI is built and tailored to better meet the needs of Central Banking’s growing audience. It comprises Benchmarking, Insight, and Professional Development.

Methodology

The Central Banking Institute’s Benchmarking Service draws on anonymous surveys of central banks. The surveys cover 12 areas: Communications, Corporate services, Currency, Economics, Financial stability, Governance, Monetary policy, Payments, Reserves, Risk management, Supervision, Technology. Benchmarking data is analysed in articles and an annual report, and powers a suite of interactive charts.

Contact

The Central Banking Institute is led by Michelle Godwin; Rachael King is head of Benchmarking. Contact details for them and the rest of the CBI team are here

Latest

Economics Benchmarks 2020 – new insights on research, policy and statistics

Benchmarking data sheds light on governance, salaries, forecasting, research, publications and more

18 Dec 2020

Currency

Currency Benchmarks 2020 report – the data behind the cash cycle

Perspectives on staffing, circulation, forecasting, fraud, substrate choice, outsourcing and climate risk

09 Nov 2020

Reserves

Reserve Benchmarks 2020 report – charting new data frontiers

Perspectives on staffing, coverage, portfolio construction, benchmarking, external parties and risk

25 Sep 2020

Economics

Few central banks forecast policy rates

14 Dec 2020

Economics

Income levels have little bearing on economics staffing

02 Dec 2020

Ahead of the Curve

There is wide variation in the durability of banknotes

A central bank’s shortest-lived banknotes will typically be in circulation for around two years, while its most durable survive for seven and a half, according to Currency Benchmarks 2020 – but these median figures disguise much wider gaps within many central banks’ families of notes, and also between institutions.

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