Financial Stability

Agenda set for derivatives industry

A meeting at the New York Federal Reserve on Wednesday of the major players in the over-the-counter derivatives market culminated in a four-point agenda for the industry.

Mexico may tap Fed, IMF credit lines

Felipe Calderon, Mexico's president, said on Tuesday that the country was eligible to take a $40 billion credit line with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as speculation mounted that the Bank of Mexico would soon use its $30 billion arrangement with…

Sepa project must be extended

The scope of the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) project must be extended to include standardisation in the field of value-added services, such as e-invoicing, a new paper from the National Bank of Denmark states.

A proposal to aid emerging-market stability

Ousmene Mandeng, the head of public sector investment advisory at Ashmore, an asset management firm, believes there is a more efficient way for emerging market central banks to use their reserves to stave off a disorderly unwinding of their capital…

ECB issues Sepa "expectations"

The European Central Bank (ECB) published a list of expectations on Friday for how it would like to see stakeholders act to implement the Single Euro Payments Area or Sepa, amid concerns that the initiative will be swept aside by the financial crisis.

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