Financial Stability

Payments systems and the crisis

Ron Berndsen, who heads the payments oversight department at the Dutch central bank, assesses the impact of the crisis on the financial "plumbing".

Reactions to Tarp 2

Initial reaction on the new financial industry bailout plans announced on Tuesday, suggest that investors and observers are underwhelmed by the lack of details available at this stage and fear that the measures will continue to fall short of the…

Geithner unveils sweeping Tarp overhaul

Timothy Geithner, the secretary of the US Treasury, has announced plans to take up to $500 billion in bad assets off the books of struggling banks and expand the Federal Reserve's programme to support asset-backed securities to $1 trillion from the…

A setback for European payments

Terry Dirienzo, product and marketing director for Experian Payments, a consultancy, bemoans a French suspension of work on the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa).

What to look for in Tarp II

Tim Geithner, the US Secretary of the Treasury, has delayed unveiling the plans for the next steps in administration's financial bailout programme until Tuesday. Here is a summary of the new steps that could be announced tomorrow.

Swedish seigniorage hits five-year high

The Riksbank has offered to pay SEK5.9 billion ($737m) of its profits to the national treasury for the financial year 2008, Sweden's central bank said on Monday.

Tarp assets too dear

The head of a watchdog charged with overseeing the use of funds allocated to the Troubled Asset Relief Program (Tarp) said on Thursday that the Treasury was overpaying for its investments in banks.

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