Governance
BoE and IMF unveil changes in finance and fiscal departments
Bank of England appoints finance director and starts hunt for court of directors chair; IMF director of fiscal affairs stands down; Bank of Namibia assistant governor quits; and more
Janet Yellen set for nomination as Fed chair
US President Barack Obama expected to nominate Janet Yellen as Ben Bernanke’s successor; would be first female appointment to top job
Maltese politicians clash over new deputy governor appointment
Move to appoint a deputy governor in charge of financial stability at the Central Bank of Malta led to opposition accusations of politicisation
ECB's counsellor to the president crosses lines to Axa
Christian Thimann moves from central bank to financial services giant; takes on responsibilities as group head of strategy and public affairs
Kazakh governor replaced for 'family reasons'
Long-serving central bank governor Grigory Marchenko steps down in favour of deputy prime minister Kairat Kelimbetov
Bank of Spain director general resigns
José María Roldán Alegre resigns after 12 years at the head of the Regulation and Financial Stability department; replaced by Julio Durán Hernández, currently director of the governor's office
ECB fires starting gun on SSM chair selection
New chair will head the single supervisory mechanism and oversee the eurozone's biggest banks from next year; appointment to be made jointly by the ECB and the European Parliament
IMF calls for co-operation as Cypriot president targets central bank governor
Cyprus president says he may appeal to the courts to remove Panicos Demetriades from the Central Bank of Cyprus; IMF insists authorities must work together to protect financial stability
RBNZ bulletin tackles inflation, macro-prudential policy and reserve bank capital
Latest issue of Reserve Bank of New Zealand's bulletin examines why inflation has remained low despite healthy economic growth
Politically-aligned governors more likely to 'survive', research finds
Paper unearths evidence that central bank governors with the same political leanings as the government in power last significantly longer in their roles
Buffett’s ‘greatest hedge fund’ claim puts spotlight on the Fed
Warren Buffett's claim the Fed is ‘the greatest hedge fund in history’ fuels bloated balance sheet and politicisation debate; Fed veteran Gary Stern says 'sage of Omaha’s' comments are ‘misguided’
Somalia appoints first female governor to scandal-hit central bank
Central Bank of Somalia to be led by female governor for first time; predecessor resigned after UN report placed central bank at the heart of a 'systematic misappropriation' of public funds
BoE executive director departs for private sector
Paul Sharma quits Prudential Regulation Authority after 20 years as a regulator, to move to consultancy Alvarez & Marsal; marks second high-level departure from PRA in the past week
Carney new vice-chair of ESRB as King joins Fischer at CFR
Mark Carney takes over from Mervyn King as deputy to European Systemic Risk Board chairman Mario Draghi; King joins US think-tank Council on Foreign Relations as a distinguished fellow
ECB seeks women to fill four senior economics vacancies
Re-organisation in the ECB's directorate general for economics creates four vacancies for head of division; new targets means bank will want to hire women to the male-dominated department
A sad ending to Summers versus Yellen
The politicisation of the debate over who should be the next chair of the Federal Reserve may be a sign of the times, but it is a sad day for central banking, argues Thomas Cargill
Indonesia parliament approves central bank deputy appointment
Indonesian House of Representatives picks current head of bank deposit guarantee scheme to fill the long-vacant position of senior deputy governor at Bank Indonesia
Summers drops out of race for Fed chair
Larry Summers writes to Barack Obama to withdraw his name from consideration as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, citing likely 'acrimonious' confirmation hearings
ECB reaches agreement with European Parliament over SSM minutes
European Central Bank will be required to submit a 'comprehensive and meaningful record of proceedings' of supervisory board meetings to the European Parliament - but not minutes in their entirety