Financial Stability
Payments Benchmarks 2021 report – executive summary
Insights into staffing, mandates, oversight and RTGS management
Norges Bank given new macro-prudential responsibilities
Government assigns central bank power to set countercyclical capital buffer
Bolivian ex-governor warns pension law poses bank risk
Current governor has stayed silent on risks posed by measure, former governor Morales says
Kuwait launches new interbank payment system
Transactions will be instantaneous and payment data encrypted, governor says
Indonesian central bank to buy $30 billion debt from government
Central bank will receive below-market yield for most purchases in two-year programme
Norges Bank finishes crisis liquidity support programme
Last loan to banks matures today as central bank returns to pre-pandemic framework
Management failings caused Australian equity trading platform outage
Responsibility for upgrade project was unclear, IBM review finds
Chilean governor opposes new pension withdrawals
Congress considering authorising fourth drawdown as stimulus measure
Myanmar authorities shut banks amid growing crisis, report says
Private banks closed from August 16 to August 22 amid ongoing cash crisis, reports allege
BIS and HKMA start work on green bond infrastructure project
Digital platform based on blockchain aims to improve green bond market’s transparency
Thai regulators aim to create ‘green’ taxonomy
Central bank and other regulators pledge to encourage sustainable investment
Fixing market-based finance: duct tape or deep reform?
Deeper reforms may be needed to avoid stretching central banks’ balance sheets to breaking point
Philippines central bank calls for urgent reform of secrecy law
Financial industry says current law attracts money launderers as governor demands change
RBI launches financial inclusion index
Metric based on 97 indicators designed to assess access, usage and quality of financial services
Bank dividend suspension proved effective – ECB
Lenders that reduced distributions increased both provisions and lending to the real economy
Taliban unlikely to gain immediate access to most DAB assets
Likely asset freeze and fall in currency may lead to hyperinflation, analyst warns
Green finance and mispricing: what role for central banks and governments?
Governments and central banks cannot stay on the sidelines, says Sayuri Shirai
Lebanese politicians condemn governor for ending fuel subsidy
Salameh says he will not resume subsidy unless parliament allows use of mandatory reserves
SNB research highlights trade-offs in use of capital controls
Financial stability benefits come at cost of curbing job creation, authors find
Systemic banks shrink balance sheets at reporting dates – BIS paper
Authors find “systematic” balance sheet compression often results in lower capital requirements
Cambodia links up quasi-CBDC with Malaysia
Malaysian bank users can transfer money to e-wallet developed by Cambodia’s central bank
HKMA to hold AML/CFT ‘lab sessions’ for firms
Hong Kong’s central bank wants firms to upgrade AML/CFT technology
Malaysian central bank to impose uniform base rate for retail loans
Unified rate will improve monetary policy transmission and consumer transparency – BNM
Israel’s financial risks back to pre-Covid levels – central bank
Banks are well capitalised and housing-related risks are low, report says