Interview
Interview: Andrew Tyrie
The chairman of the UK’s Treasury Select Committee talks to Claire Jones about the future of financial regulation, why he’s a sceptic on Basel and reining in a more powerful Bank of England
Interview: Andrew Sheng
The crisis has undermined much of the economic theory that has influenced central banking in recent decades. This has significant consequences for policymaking, the chief adviser to the China Banking Regulatory Commission tells Claire Jones.
Interview: Agustín Carstens
The governor of the Bank of Mexico tells Claire Jones about how the central bank is improving its capacity to safeguard financial stability
Interview: Sir Andrew Large
The former deputy governor of the Bank of England talks to Robert Pringle about how officials can better safeguard stability, and bankers’ behaviour in the run-up to the crisis
Interview: Linah Mohohlo
The governor of the Bank of Botswana talks about how the country avoided the resource curse and efforts to develop its financial markets.
Interview: Mahamudu Bawumia
Former Bank of Ghana deputy governor discusses the economic and monetary policy challenges facing Ghana and Africa
Interview: Raghuram Rajan
University of Chicago Booth School of Business' Raghuram Rajan on Fed policy and officials, the structural flaws in the US economy, and the future of economics in central banks
Interview: Patrick Honohan
The governor of the Central Bank of Ireland tells Claire Jones what went wrong in Ireland and how he plans to stop it happening again.
Donald Kohn: a life in central banking
The outgoing vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board has spent 40 years at the central bank. He tells Blair Baker about the significant evolution in policymaking he has witnessed and, latterly, overseen.
Interview: Andrew Haldane
The executive director for financial stability at the Bank of England talks to Robert Pringle about lessons from the crisis, the macroprudential toolkit, links between monetary policy and financial stability, and whether the banking industry needs to be…
Interview: Gill Marcus
The governor of the South African Reserve Bank talks to Ramya Jaidev about some of the challenges central bankers are facing both in South Africa and around the world.
Interview: Charles Plosser
The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia talks to Claire Jones about financial reform, how monetary policymaking needs to change and the dangers of assuming central bankers can remedy all economic ills.
Interview: Donald Kohn
Blair Baker talked to Donald Kohn on 9 July about his career at the Federal Reserve, monetary policy, the crisis and the future of financial regulation.
'Basel II was a big mistake': Larry Meyer exclusive interview
The former Fed governor, now vice-chairman of Macroeconomic Advisers, talks to Credit about the US central bank’s handling of the financial crisis, and gives his views on where US monetary policy is heading.
Interview: Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria discusses banking reform, the Volcker rule, and the role of lenders in society
Interview: Charles Plosser
President of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve tells Central Banking Publications why central banks must review how monetary policy translates into inflation; warns against viewing monetary institutions as omnipotent
Interview: Gill Marcus
The governor of the South African Reserve Bank tells CentralBanking.com why reforms can’t be rushed and discusses the role of central banks within society
Interview: Howard Davies
The founding chairman of the UK Financial Services Authority discusses Britain’s new regulatory architecture, weaknesses in the European Central Bank’s voting arrangements, and how inflation targets need to change
Interview: Peter Praet
Fortis’s collapse all too well illustrated the difficulties in saving cross-border European banks. But the ideal solution, a European crisis resolution authority, remains a distant dream. However, there is an existing, yet perhaps unusual, candidate from…
Interview: Hervé Ferhani
Hervé Ferhani, a deputy director at the IMF, discusses how the role of central banks will change post crisis
Interview: George Milling-Stanley on gold
The managing director, government affairs at the World Gold Council discusses central banks' recent purchases of the precious metal
Interview: Kim Choong-soo
New Bank of Korea governor on independence, collaboration and challenges going forward
Interview with Takatoshi Ito
Takatoshi Ito, a professor at the University of Tokyo, discusses whether recent comments by Japan’s finance minister undermine the central bank’s independence
Bank of Finland’s Huhtala on reserve management post-crisis
Heli Huhtala, the head of investments in the Banking Operations Department at the Bank of Finland, discusses how the crisis will change the thinking on central banks’ reserve-management strategies