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Governance Benchmarks 2021: governing members presentation
Subject matter specialist Dan Hardie speaks about committees, boards, policies and more
Communications Benchmarks 2021: governing members presentation
Subject matter specialist Daniel Hinge speaks with Christopher Jeffery about communications staffing and salaries, effective approaches and favoured channels
Some philosophical questions about the future of central banking
Kenneth Rogoff weighs up the many challenges facing central banks in the years ahead
Is the ECB’s strategy review enough?
Reformed framework may allow greater stimulus to tackle weak inflation expectations, but Governing Council is already divided
Fixing market-based finance: duct tape or deep reform?
Deeper reforms may be needed to avoid stretching central banks’ balance sheets to breaking point
Digital revolution: perks of a global Chinese CBDC
Chinese central bank digital currency has the potential to boost the renminbi’s internationalisation further, but only if international investors have access.
An assessment of the ECB’s strategy review
Aspects of the framework raise challenges for implementation and credibility, while climate change inclusion may politicise the institution
China’s capital controls: here to stay?
With China’s share of the domestic central government bond market significantly increasing in just a few years, and the International Monetary Fund including the renminbi in its special drawing rights basket of currencies, China is enjoying growing…
Five years of the renminbi in SDR and its adoption in central bank portfolios
Policy-makers discuss what has impacted the renminbi’s adoption as a global reserve asset over the past five years.
The ‘golden age’ of central banking has passed
Central banks face multi-faceted challenges and weakened autonomy amid highly polarised inflation expectations
South African Reserve Bank: the first 100 years
Central bankers and academics reflect on a tumultuous first century for Africa’s oldest central bank
The IFF China Report 2021
Insight and perspectives from the world's leaders, premier policy-makers and financiers
CBDC: the case for ‘wait and see’
Despite growing interest, some central banks are staying out of the digital currency game
Central Banking FinTech & RegTech Global Awards 2021
In March 2021, Central Banking launched its fourth annual FinTech & RegTech Global Awards to showcase some of the groundbreaking projects undertaken in the community. The results are revealed in the awards articles published in this special winners’…
‘Run it hot’: the risks and rewards of a new policy era
Covid-19 has added impetus to an emerging intellectual shift in policy-making. But central banks face unresolved issues
The Belt and Road Initiative 2021 Survey – The impact of Covid‑19 on the BRI
The fourth annual Belt and Road Initiative survey reveals that the Covid‑19 pandemic has disrupted many projects despite China remaining committed to financing the initiative, which is expected to support future economic growth and environmental…
Should the Fed’s Fima facility be made permanent?
Emergency repo facility reassures reserve managers about access to cash during breakdown in US Treasuries market
Cash infrastructure as public good – implications for the cash cycle
Eurosystem is seeking to safeguard cash infrastructure even as transaction volumes plunge
The evolving ‘strategy function’ in central banks
Study shows central banks still struggle to fully utilise strategy units
Is the ECB implementing yield curve control?
Eurozone has adopted hybrid system that targets wider financing conditions
Regulating big tech and non-bank financial services in the digital era
Experiences from China highlight potential benefits of digital-bank and holding-company approaches
A rebuttal of Philip Turner’s criticism of the BIS ‘house view’
Critiquing Philip Turner’s occasional paper, ‘The new monetary policy revolution: advice and dissent’
Specialised lending initiative: Clearstream
Clearstream is supporting eurozone central banks with their asset purchase programmes
Central bank of the year: The Federal Reserve System
Overwhelming Fed interventions forestalled a damaging global financial crisis