Governance
Former financial stability adviser returns to Bank
Alastair Clark, a former executive director at the Bank of England, is to rejoin the Bank to advise Mervyn King, the governor, on financial stability.
Canada's Macklem to move to finance ministry
Tiff Macklem, a deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, is to move to the Department of Finance on 1 November.
Padoa-Schioppa to chair IMFS
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italy's economy and finance minister, is to head the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC).
Ex-Nigerian finance minister rejoins World Bank
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former finance and foreign minister in Nigeria, is set to become a managing director at the World Bank.
Mark Carney replaces Dodge at the Bank of Canada
Mark Carney, the senior associate deputy minister of finance and a former head of Goldman Sachs in Canada, will become the youngest central bank chief in the G7 when he takes over from David Dodge as Bank of Canada governor in February 2008.
Czech CB appoints financial stability deputy
Jan Frait has joined the Czech National Bank as deputy executive director of the financial stability and economic research department at the central bank.
New governance head at Norwegian oil fund
Anne Kvam, a legal director at paper producer Norske Skog, will replace Henrik Syse, as head of corporate governance at Norges Bank Investment Management, the Central Bank of Norway's sovereign wealth fund.
Dugan to replace Witteveen at joint forum
John Dugan, the comptroller of the currency in the US, will head the Joint Forum, a group of senior financial sector regulators, following the death of Dirk Witteveen, an executive director at the Netherlands Bank, earlier this month.
New deputy governors for Bank Indonesia
Jakarta's local business newspaper, Bisnis Indonesia, has reported the appointment of two new deputy governors for Bank Indonesia, the country's central bank.
Knut Kjr quits Norway's oil fund
Knut Kjr announced his resignation as head of Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages the country's oil-fuelled $330 billion pension fund and the bulk of the central bank's forex reserves.
Former Fed governor seeks gainful employment
In his memoirs, The Age of Turbulence, Alan Greenspan presents himself very much as a global leader; he hobnobs with former UK prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair, features the current prime minister, Gordon Brown, the president of China,…
Bank of Finland lines up academic for board
Seppo Honkapohja, a professor of macroeconomics at the University of Cambridge, is set to join the board of the Bank of Finland for a five-year term beginning January 2008.
New governor for Iran
Tahmasb Mazaheri, a former Iranian finance minister, was appointed yesterday as head of the country's central bank.
Ex-Fed governor Gramlich dies
Former Federal Reserve governor Edward Gramlich has died of leukemia. He was 68. Gramlich served the Fed from 1997 to 2005.
Paramonova to leave Russian central bank
Tatiana Paramonova, first deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR), is to quit her office in September.
Parliament reads Singapore CB bill
The Parliament of Singapore conducted its first reading of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Bill on 27 August.
Ryback moves to Korean regulator
William Ryback, the former deputy chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, is to join the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), Korea's market regulator.
Canada appoints special adviser
Paul Masson will join the Bank of Canada as a special adviser for the year 2007-08 in September, the central bank announced on Wednesday 22 August.
RBNZ appoints new department head
Lindsay Jenkin will join the Reserve Bank of New Zealand as head of human resources.
UK regulator revamps enforcement division
The Financial Services Authority (FSA), the UK industry regulator, will offload a third of staff from its enforcement division as part of its shift from a rules to a principles-based regulatory framework.
Burundi appoints new governor
Gaspard Sindayigaya will replace the recently-arrested Isaac Bizimana as the new governor of the Central Bank of Burundi.
Greenspan to advise Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank, the German investment and retail bank, announced on Monday that it will retain Alan Greenspan, the former governor of the Federal Reserve, as a senior adviser.
Hong Kong has new deputy
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is set for a reshuffle after William Ryback, the deputy chief executive with responsibility for banking stability, said he would step down at the end of August.
Morgan Stanley lures NY Fed's Kos
Dino Kos, the former executive vice president of the market group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, has left the central bank to head Morgan Stanley's division for central banks and sovereign wealth funds.