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BoE executive director departs for private sector
Paul Sharma quits Prudential Regulation Authority after 20 years as a regulator, to move to consultancy Alvarez & Marsal; marks second high-level departure from PRA in the past week
Carney new vice-chair of ESRB as King joins Fischer at CFR
Mark Carney takes over from Mervyn King as deputy to European Systemic Risk Board chairman Mario Draghi; King joins US think-tank Council on Foreign Relations as a distinguished fellow
ECB seeks women to fill four senior economics vacancies
Re-organisation in the ECB's directorate general for economics creates four vacancies for head of division; new targets means bank will want to hire women to the male-dominated department
Indonesia parliament approves central bank deputy appointment
Indonesian House of Representatives picks current head of bank deposit guarantee scheme to fill the long-vacant position of senior deputy governor at Bank Indonesia
Summers drops out of race for Fed chair
Larry Summers writes to Barack Obama to withdraw his name from consideration as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, citing likely 'acrimonious' confirmation hearings
People: Stanley Fischer joins US think-tank; Hungarian central bank official moves to EIB
Fischer takes post at US think-tank after leaving the Bank of Israel; László Baranyay joins the European Investment Bank; sovereign wealth fund managers on the move
Central Bank of Madagascar governor dies
Guy Ratovondrahona suffered a stroke while travelling to work, leaving the two most senior positions at the central bank vacant
Borio to take over from Cecchetti at BIS; ECB's Cœuré appointed CPSS chair
Claudio Borio promoted from deputy to head up the monetary and economic department in Basel; Benoît Cœuré, the ECB's head of payments infrastructure, to take over from Paul Tucker at CPSS
Summers trails Yellen and Fischer in Central Banking Fed poll
Readers of CentralBanking.com make Janet Yellen first choice to succeed Ben Bernanke as Fed chair - with Stanley Fischer a strong second; Larry Summers joint third with Christina Romer
People: Bank of Finland appoints head of monetary policy; Cleveland branch gets new vice-president
Tuomas Välimäki is Bank of Finland's new head of monetary policy and research; Guhan Venkatu takes over from Robert Schaub as president of Cleveland Fed's Pittsburgh branch; and more
Iran central bank appoints new governor
New Iranian president names commercial bank veteran to take over at the top of the central bank; priority will be taming inflation now running at around 40% a year
Adia CFO bagged by Texas real estate company
Jim Hime leaves the Abu Dhabi SWF for USAA Real Estate on September 1 after serving three years as chief financial officer of its real estate and infrastructure department
Yellen must overcome deputies’ curse to take Fed chair
Fed vice-chair Janet Yellen will need to avoid joining Paul Tucker, Tiff Macklem, Karnit Flug and other discarded deputies to take the top job at the Fed as governments increasingly favour outsiders
People: StanChart's new global RMB team; RBC hires Asian equities head from JPM
Carmen Ling quits Citi to head Standard Chartered's new global renminbi-focused team; RBC hires new head of Asian equities from JP Morgan in Hong Kong; and more
Irish central bank appoints top French supervisor as deputy governor
Cyril Roux, previously second-in-command at the French prudential supervisory authority, will join the Central Bank of Ireland as deputy governor with responsibility for financial regulation
Venezuela central bank head replaced amid corruption claims
President Maduro appoints head of the currency exchange board, Eudomar Tovar, to lead the CBV; Edmée Betancourt is sacked three months after moving from the scandal-plagued development bank
Fed's Fisher reshuffles senior team; RBNZ gets new directors
Harvey Rosenblum, who has attended more FOMC meetings than any other active participant, retires from Dallas Fed, causing a senior re-shuffle; New Zealand appoints two directors to Reserve Bank board
Blejer heads up new Bank of Israel shortlist
Former Central Bank of Argentina governor is new front-runner for the Bank of Israel top job; former Israeli deputy Zvi Eckstein also submits application
Sandra Pianalto to retire next year
Cleveland Fed president Pianalto calls time on a 30-year career at the bank; successor will sit on the FOMC in 2014
MAS announces eleven changes to ‘leadership bench’
The majority of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s senior management team are either changing jobs or job descriptions; former chief risk officer at GIC is the only outside addition
Zoellick joins Temasek board under new chairman Lim Boon Heng
Singaporean sovereign fund appoints new chairman to take over from long-serving Dhanabalan; American political heavyweight joins as Temasek looks to establish a presence in the US
Raghuram Rajan picked as RBI governor
Former IMF chief economist credited with seeing the financial crisis before it happened chosen by Indian government to head the country's central bank; appointment hailed as an 'excellent choice'
BIS banking department deputy makes switch to State Street OIG
Founder of State Street's Official Institutions Group John Nugée will retire in October, and be replaced by Louis de Montpellier of the BIS
India in search for new RBI governor as Subbarao set to leave in September
Duvvuri Subbarao will leave the RBI this year after five years at the top; no clear favourite as yet to replace him, as three external candidates attract speculation