Currency
Zimbabwe banks ordered to ring-fence foreign currency accounts
Move appears to be a step towards de-dollarisation
Cash still reigns in euro area
Large number of countries still use cash for high-value payments, but national disparities remain
Curaçao and Sint Maarten proposes 2021 for new currency launch
Caribbean guilder introduction hinges on governments agreeing on new monetary union
De La Rue beats European competition to Swedish banknote contract
Banknotes will be printed in UK after Riksbank severs ties with former supplier
Former Liberian governor to assist in corruption probe
Government launches investigation into missing banknotes
Market power can explain financial market anomalies – BIS paper
Market power of intermediaries can explain behaviour of risk premiums, authors find
RBI figures show demonetisation captured very little ‘black money’
Over 99% of banknotes were returned despite high cost to the economy
Turkish lira back under pressure amid Moody’s downgrade
Central bank raises overnight borrowing limits; dwindling reserves could prove a challenge in the months ahead
Venezuelan central bank launches app to aid currency reconversion
App allows members of the public to covert prices into the new “bolivar soberano”
IMF paper proposes cash-based solution to zero lower bound
“Decoupling” cash from electronic money could be an alternative to QE or a higher inflation target, the authors say
Bank of Mexico to phase out 20-peso banknote
Central bank scraps lowest denomination; considers new 20,000 banknote as series launches
Monetary policies spill over to currencies, BIS paper says
Paper examines impact of multiple monetary policies on cross-border bank lending
Removing low-denomination coins not inflationary - BoE research
Rounding would be applied to total bill and not individual items, paper argues