Financial Stability

London's lifelines lack coherence

The dangerously mixed messages underlying the British government's rescue attempts threaten to derail efforts to secure stability, argues Robert Pringle, the editor-in-chief of Central Banking journal.

BoA rescued as Congress grants $350bn for Tarp

Washington has granted Bank of America, the United States's third-largest lender, up to $138 billion in federal aid on signs that a batch of assets taken onto the lender's balance sheet following its buyout of failed investment bank Merrill Lynch could…

Innovation impacts money demand

Technological developments affect average money holding and interest elasticity of money demand, research from the Bank of Italy notes.

Bernanke revisits idea of toxic asset purchases

Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, on Tuesday mooted several ways in which American authorities could remove toxic assets from banks' balance sheets. He also said that more capital injections and guarantees may be required to ensure…

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