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Lomax decides to quit the Bank
Rachel Lomax, a deputy governor at the Bank of England, will leave when her term ends at the end of June.
Padoa-Schioppa resigns from IMF role
Tomasso Padoa-Schioppa quit on Friday as chairman of its International Monetary and Final Committee.
Turkey appoints new deputy
Mustafa Ibrahim Turhan, a board member of the Central Bank of Turkey, will become one of four of the institution's deputies.
RBA's Broadbent wins third term
Jillian Broadbent, the only woman on the Reserve Bank of Australia's nine-strong rate-setting board, is to serve a third five-year term.
Austria names new governor
Ewald Nowotny, a former chief executive of BAWAG, an Austrian Bank, is to replace Klaus Liebscher, at the helm of the country's central bank.
Greece's Garganas to step down
Nicholas Garganas, the governor of the Bank of Greece, will retire when his first term ends in June.
World Bank appoints SA anti-corruption head
Leonard McCarthy, the chief of South Africa's highly-regarded anti-corruption unit, will head the World Bank's institutional integrity department.
Fund directors lead exodus
The International Monetary Fund has conducted the first in a series of directorial reshuffles after six senior managers opted for voluntary redundancy.
IMF redundancy offer oversubscribed
The International Monetary Fund's bid to cut its workforce by 13% by offering voluntary redundancy packages has led to over 20% of employees asking to leave.
Stop the press: ex-CNB deputy joins Czech weekly
Ludek Niedermayer, a former deputy governor at the Czech National Bank, is to work with Respekt, a weekly newspaper.
BoE names former economist as communications head
Jenny Scott, a BBC journalist and former Bank of England economist, is to become the Bank's director of communications in June.
Stalemate ends as Shirakawa is approved
Masaaki Shirakawa is the new governor of the Bank of Japan after the opposition Democratic Party of Japan accepted his nomination on Wednesday, ending a political standoff that has embarrassed both the central bank and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
Indonesia's Boediono gets the nod
Boediono, Indonesia's economics minister, will become governor of the country's central bank in May after a parliamentary committee approved his appointment.
Tokyo nominates Shirakawa for governor
The leadership crisis at the Bank of Japan looks resolved after the government nominated Masaaki Shirakawa, the current acting governor, for the role on Monday night.
New governor proposed for Bank Indonesia
Boediono, Indonesia's chief economics minister, has been nominated for the top job at the country's central bank.
Research deputy to replace Poole at St Louis Fed
James Bullard, the deputy director of research for monetary analysis at the St Louis Federal Reserve, will replace William Poole as the president of the central bank.
Japan without a governor as Fukui steps down
Political squabbling has left the Bank of Japan leaderless at a time of heightened global uncertainty.
Beijing reappoints Zhou
After months of deliberation, the Chinese authorities on Monday approved the reappointment of Zhou Xiaochuan as governor of the People's Bank of China.
BoE's Tucker gets second term on MPC
Paul Tucker, the executive director for markets at the Bank of England, is to serve a further three-year term on the Monetary Policy Committee.
Former NY Fed director to succeed White at BIS
Stephen Cecchetti, a former director of research at the New York Federal Reserve, is the new head of the Bank for International Settlements' (BIS) monetary and economics department.
ECB reveals executive board salaries
In keeping with their inflation-fighting mandate, senior staff at the ECB gave themselves a 2% pay rise last year.
Former Hungarian governor joins race for EBRD job
Budapest has nominated Gyorgy Suranyi, a former governor of the National Bank of Hungary, to succeed Jean Lemierre as president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
Obituaries: Terry Smeeton
Terence Smeeton, born 5 July 1942, died 12 September 2007.
Obituaries: Stephen Frowen
Professor Stephen F. Frowen, born 22 May 1923, died 21 December 2007.