Central Banks
Indonesia deputy governor passes away
Budi Rochadi, the Indonesian central bank’s deputy governor in charge of the banking payment system, passes away in New York
Innovation and Independence: the reserve Bank of New Zealand
1973-2002. John Singleton and Arthur Grimes, Gary Hawke and Frank Holmes. Auckland University Press, 2006; 340 pages.
How safe are your reserves?
A case before the English courts has highlighted concerns over whether sovereign immunity applies to central bank reserves, writes Charles Proctor.
How the People's Bank is shaping China's financial sector
Hui Feng explains how China's Central bank has become the leading force in the country's banking reform and financial restructuring
What to expect from Singapore
What will be the key talking points at the IMF's annual meeting in September? Marc Uzan, director of the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee, explains
Policy coordination and future IMF surveillance
Alexander Swoboda analyses past attempts at international policy coordination, and asks what role a newly mandated IMF should play in unwinding global imbalances
More transparency may harm bond markets
More transparency in European bond markets may mean less liquidity according to a recent report
Kuroda's crusade for the ACU
What's behind the Asian development Bank's push for a single currency in Asia? Anthony Rowley reports
Questions Governor Fukui still needs to answer
Unanswered questions arising from the Murakami affair still threaten the Bank of Japan's credibility, writes Hisashi Harui
The new dilemma facing central banks
Central bankers have been praised for low inflation but how much credit do they deserve? As the global economy takes a turn for the worse, we will soon find out says John Nugee
Time for a monetary policy rethink
A succession of asset bubbles show the folly of too strict a focus on inflation. Central bankers should be more flexible, says Stephen Roach
Bank beds in its new money market
Paul Brione spoke with Paul Tucker on the completion of a major project at the bank of England
Canada cancels plan for C$200 banknote
The Bank of Canada has withdrawn a proposal to print a C$200 bill after a survey concluded that there is a significant current of opposition from retailers to its introduction.
Colombia raises rates to 21-month high
Colombia's central bank raised its key intervention rate on Friday to 6.75% from 6.5%. The move was expected by market observers as inflationary pressures have been building through high consumer spending, rapid growth in imports and a sharp increase in…
Bank of Japan's new executive director
Japan's finance minister, Sadakazu Tanigaki, today appointed Kiyoto Ido, a former director-general of the finance ministry's international bureau, as one of six executive directors of the Bank of Japan.
MacFarlane explains recent rate rise
In his final testimony to lawmakers before retiring as governor of Australia's central bank, Ian MacFarlane explains recent rate rise.
SNB's Blattner to retire in the spring of 2007
The vice-chairman of the Swiss National Bank's Governing Board, Niklaus Blattner, will retire at the end of April 2007, the SNB said on Friday 18 August, adding that a replacement would be proposed within months.
China raises rates by 0.27%
The People's Bank of China on Friday 18 August announced increases of 0.27 percent for key lending and deposit rates in an attempt to slow investment and prevent the economy from overheating.
Fukui says 'more time' needed to hike rates
Bank of Japan governor Toshihiko Fukui told the Kyodo News Agency in an interview that the central bank needs "a little more time" to lift interest rates after it ended its zero-rate policy last month.
Sweden's Srejber on monetary union
In the speech 'Frameworks and stabilisation policy in a monetary union' given on 17 August Eva Srejber of the Sveriges Riksbank said when discussing whether or not to join or form a monetary union, concerns are usually expressed that the countries in the…
Report sees slower gold sales
With European central banks unlikely to opt to sell the maximum allowable 500 metric tons of gold in their annual quota, gold prices should benefit from the reduced physical supply, according to a report by London-based consultancy Virtual Metals Ltd.
SPEED: the new journal for financial plumbers
SPEED - short for Settlement, Payment, E-money and E-trading Development - is a new journal aimed at all those policy-makers in banks, central banks and system operators who are trying to ensure that the financial infrastructure, often called the …
Venezuela monetary reform pondered
A likely monetary reform in Venezuela is subject to a decision by the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), said the National Assembly Finance Committee president Rodrigo Cabezas.