Central Banks
Navigating uncertainty: the impact of the 2024 US elections on emerging markets
Franklin Templeton analyses possible outcomes of the US elections, the effect on trade, foreign and domestic policies, market impact and implications for emerging market (EM) economies
Climate stress tests are cold comfort for banks
Flaws in regulators’ methodology for gauging financial impact of climate change undermine transition efforts, argues modelling expert
Estonia’s head of cash on sunsetting low-value coins
Bank of Estonia’s Rait Roosve speaks with Levente Koroes about the country’s decision to stop minting one- and two-euro cent coins and its impact on access to cash
ECB official open to offering liquidity aid to non-banks
Deputy director doesn’t rule out copying UK plan to extend repo facility to pension funds and life insurers
Central banks buying less gold
Net purchases in August were lowest monthly level since March, says World Gold Council
Geopolitics and cyber security remain top systemic risks – BoE
Respondents less worried about UK stability, but international tensions a growing concern
Bank of Thailand launches data-sharing initiative
Central bank and regulators plan to make consent-based data-sharing mechanism operational in 2026
Supply shocks may become more frequent – BIS’s Maechler
Central banks should re-examine their policy approaches, says deputy general manager
National Bank of Romania renews veteran governor’s tenure
Mugur Isărescu, who has headed bank for more than 30 years, appointed to new five-year term
Book notes: Money in the 21st century: cheap, mobile, and digital, by Richard Holden
Author’s call for compulsory end of cash and transition to CBDC seems like ‘overkill’
Cloud and AI ‘dramatically improving’ data use at BoE
UK central bank creates cloud-based platform to streamline processing of its 30,000 data series
Disinflation in Turkey slows in September
Rate cuts appear less likely as CPI inflation remains at 49%
Japan’s economy not ready for rate hike, says prime minister
New premier’s remarks add uncertainty to BoJ’s normalisation path
High Russian growth ‘extremely unlikely’ – Bank of Finland study
Reports shows labour shortages, capacity constraints are beginning to bite
Swift to conduct live digital asset transaction trials from 2025
Network’s head of innovation says functionality will meet increasing demand for digital transactions
The Fed can afford to loosen policy
As (nearly) the world’s most hawkish central bank, the Federal Reserve is right to start monetary loosening, writes Steve Kamin
Reserve Benchmarks 2024 report – the challenge of diversification
Central banks’ insights into portfolio make-up shine light on new and old trends
Iceland eases monetary policy by 25bp
MPC cuts rates as CPI inflation excluding housing heads towards target
Basel III endgame adoption more than doubles
Annual monitoring exercise shows progress, but US and some emerging markets lag behind
Hungary’s central bank increases gold reserves by 16.4%
MNB now has highest per capita bullion stocks in central and eastern Europe
RBA bars two banks from private briefings after leaks
Incidents raise concerns over practice of holding off-the-record briefings with market participants
BoE will need to closely monitor shift to T+1 if it is to succeed – report
UK will move to accelerated settlement by 2027, even if rest of Europe has yet to align
Rate markets had lucky escape from August stock crash, says BoE
FPC minutes suggest spillover might have occurred were it not for positive macroeconomic news