Central Banks
MPs will quiz Brown on euro entry tests in autumn
UK - Gordon Brown is to face a Commons inquiry into the Treasury's five economic tests for euro entry after a hard-fought battle by opposition MPs to get the issue on the agenda.
ECB Press Release
PRESS RELEASE - Allotment amount of the longer-term refinancing operations in the second half of 2002, 10 July.
Speech by H Kohler, Managing Director, IMF, 4 July
SPEECH - In evidence before the UK Parliament's Treasury Select Committtee titled 'The IMF in the Process of Change' Kohler said "we have seen a near revolution in the transparency of the IMF, and in the release of economic and financial data by our…
Speech by Fed Reserve Governor Mark Olson, 8 July
SPEECH - In the speech 'Financial Markets Regulation in the United States' Olson said the risk to U.S. banks from the accounting scandals was "very isolated" but added the Fed would ask some banks for restatements due to asset risk.
IMF Working Paper No. 02/ 102
WORKING PAPER - Establishing Initial Conditions in Support of Inflation Targeting, Author/Editor: Alina Carare, Andrea Schaechter, Mark R Stone, Mark D Zelmer, Monetary and Exchange Affairs Department, June 2002.
Flying blind
ARTICLE - If you had asked a group of central bankers to draw up a wish-list a decade ago, near the top would have come low and stable expectations for inflation; a financial system that was more resistant to shocks; and emerging markets less prone to…
Top regulators disclose finances
US - The value of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan's reported assets sagged last year, to between $3 million and $6.15 million from $4.2 million to $12.1 million, according to his 2001 financial disclosure report, released Monday, reports…
Labour adopts new line on NZ inflation
NEW ZEALAND - New Zealand's Labour party intends to rewrite a policy agreement with the Reserve Bank to make it adopt a more flexible approach to controlling inflation. Releasing details of his party's election manifesto yesterday, Michael Cullen,…
IMF mission to Argentina seeks account access bar
ARGENTINA - The IMF will hold up disbursement of 9.5 bln usd in aid unless the government denies bank depositors any access to their accounts, government officials said after a federal judge found the ban unconstitutional.
Bank Negara reserves reach 2-year high
MALAYSIA - Bank Negara Malaysia's international reserves reached their highest level in two years to RM127.7 billion when they jumped RM3.6 billion at the end of June.
Chicago Fed Executive Update
REPORT - The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago has published its Second Quarter 2002 Executive Update, released 9 July.
Indian banks woo credit card users
INDIA - India's largest commercial bank plans a credit card revolution that it hopes will increase its share of the retail banking market by 47%.
Speech by A Crockett, General Manager, BIS, 8 July
SPEECH - In a speech titled 'Activities of the Bank: the year in review' at the BIS Annual General Meeting Crockett said that as an intermediator of central bank funds, the guiding principles of the Bank in serving its customers have always been…
Speech by Guillermo Ortiz, Bank of Mexico, 7 July
SPEECH - In a speech titled 'Recent Emerging Market Crises - What have we learned?' Ortiz said that the financial crises affecting emerging market economies since December 1994 shared many features that distinguish them from those that struck emerging…
Andrew Crockett to leave the BIS
SWITZERLAND - Andrew Crockett today announced that he would be stepping down as general manager of the Bank for International Settlements in March 2003. He delayed the announcement of his departure until the annual general meeting of the BIS in Basle in…
Argentine c banks Pignanelli denies conflict
ARGENTINA - The central bank's new chairman, Aldo Pignanelli, denied that the central bank is at loggerheads with Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna.
ECB won't discuss freeing up for ex reserves
GERMANY - Central bank reserves of foreign currency which have been seen as one answer to the Government's public finance problems are not up for discussion, the European Central Bank said Friday.
Brazil party may give its backing to IMF plan
BRAZIL - Brazil's leftwing Workers' party, which is still leading opinion polls ahead of October's presidential elections, says it may back an accord with the International Monetary Fund in order to reassure investors.
Argentina 'will not force savings swap'
ARGENTINA - Thousands of savers in Argentina will not be forced to swap their bank deposits for government bonds, the country's president has said.
An analysis of the BIS annual report
SWITZERLAND - The Bank for International Settlement's annual report, released today at the bank's annual general meeting in Basle, worked hard to put an optimistic interpretation on global economic prospects. However, amid the positive notes the report…
Speech by H Kohler, Managing Director, IMF, 1 July
SPEECH - Kohler said in a speech titled 'The Role of the IMF in the Global Economy' that the Enron and WorldCom scandals showed the international community had to worry as much about economic risks in wealthy nations as in poor countries.
National Institute Economic Review, April 2002
RESEARCH - Research articles from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
ECB Press Conference
PRESS CONFERENCE - Transcript of the questions asked and the answers given by Dr. Willem F. Duisenberg, President of the ECB, Dr. Lucas Papademos, Vice-President of the ECB and Yves Mersch, Governor of the Banque centrale du Luxembourg, 4 July.
ECB Press Release
PRESS RELEASE - International Research Forum on Monetary Policy, 5 July.