Governance
People: Stanley Fischer joins US think-tank; Hungarian central bank official moves to EIB
Fischer takes post at US think-tank after leaving the Bank of Israel; László Baranyay joins the European Investment Bank; sovereign wealth fund managers on the move
Asmussen: Eurozone governors should ‘withstand' pressure of public minutes
ECB executive board member Jörg Asmussen says eurozone central bank governors should be able to withstand the pressure of having their deliberations and voting made public
Central Bank of Madagascar governor dies
Guy Ratovondrahona suffered a stroke while travelling to work, leaving the two most senior positions at the central bank vacant
Borio to take over from Cecchetti at BIS; ECB's Cœuré appointed CPSS chair
Claudio Borio promoted from deputy to head up the monetary and economic department in Basel; Benoît Cœuré, the ECB's head of payments infrastructure, to take over from Paul Tucker at CPSS
Central banks are getting more transparent, study finds
Study conducted by Barry Eichengreen and Nergiz Dincer finds trend towards greater transparency was not knocked off course by the financial crisis; independence, however, is more patchy
Weidmann slams Europe's stability pact relaxation
Exceptions made for four members of the eurozone earlier this year were inappropriate, Bundesbank president says; making the rules more binding is the only way to stronger monetary union
Summers trails Yellen and Fischer in Central Banking Fed poll
Readers of CentralBanking.com make Janet Yellen first choice to succeed Ben Bernanke as Fed chair - with Stanley Fischer a strong second; Larry Summers joint third with Christina Romer
Tough tests ahead as Rajan prepares for RBI top job
Raghuram Rajan holds many of the skills required to govern the RBI, but he will face substantial monetary policy, governance and financial stability challenges, a new Central Banking article finds
Subbarao reviews success and failure in RBI valedictory speech
Outgoing governor Duvvuri Subbarao makes no apology for acting decisively in 2008, but says the RBI should have tightened policy faster in 2009; says bank is not targeting a level for the rupee
ECB looks to double the number of women in senior positions through quota
The bank is launching a ‘gender diversity action plan' to ensure 35% of mid-level management positions and 28% of senior positions are held by women by the end of the decade
People: Bank of Finland appoints head of monetary policy; Cleveland branch gets new vice-president
Tuomas Välimäki is Bank of Finland's new head of monetary policy and research; Guhan Venkatu takes over from Robert Schaub as president of Cleveland Fed's Pittsburgh branch; and more
Rajan faces daunting challenges as he takes over as RBI governor
Raghuram Rajan faces a raft of monetary policy, governance and financial stability challenges when he takes over as governor of the Reserve Bank of India next week, writes Hugh Sandeman
Iran central bank appoints new governor
New Iranian president names commercial bank veteran to take over at the top of the central bank; priority will be taming inflation now running at around 40% a year
Israel central bank reinstates September meeting due to market volatility
Bank of Israel reverses a decision not to meet around the Jewish new year; u-turn likely to have been influenced by market expectations that the Fed will begin to 'taper' next month
Adia CFO bagged by Texas real estate company
Jim Hime leaves the Abu Dhabi SWF for USAA Real Estate on September 1 after serving three years as chief financial officer of its real estate and infrastructure department
Yellen must overcome deputies’ curse to take Fed chair
Fed vice-chair Janet Yellen will need to avoid joining Paul Tucker, Tiff Macklem, Karnit Flug and other discarded deputies to take the top job at the Fed as governments increasingly favour outsiders
People: StanChart's new global RMB team; RBC hires Asian equities head from JPM
Carmen Ling quits Citi to head Standard Chartered's new global renminbi-focused team; RBC hires new head of Asian equities from JP Morgan in Hong Kong; and more
Irish central bank appoints top French supervisor as deputy governor
Cyril Roux, previously second-in-command at the French prudential supervisory authority, will join the Central Bank of Ireland as deputy governor with responsibility for financial regulation
New Zealand opposition says RBNZ internal review backs case for more transparency
Internal review confirms New Zealand is an outlier in giving the Reserve Bank governor a monetary policy veto; Green Party says change in law should be 'non-controversial'
Canadian quarterly review outlines toolkit for analysing current economic performance
Summer 2013 edition of the BoC's review contains four articles outlining the bank's latest thinking and methods of analysing current economic trends at home and abroad
Venezuela central bank head replaced amid corruption claims
President Maduro appoints head of the currency exchange board, Eudomar Tovar, to lead the CBV; Edmée Betancourt is sacked three months after moving from the scandal-plagued development bank