Interview
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
Interview with Donghyun Park
Donghyun Park, a senior economist at the Asian Development Bank, discusses reserve management post-crisis and fostering demand in Asia
Interview with Abdellatif Jouahri
The governor of Bank Al-Maghrib talks to CentralBanking.com about the success of the country’s financial reform efforts
Interview: Heng Swee Keat
In an exclusive interview, the managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore discusses the impact of the financial crisis and how monetary and regulatory policies will change as a result
Interview: Robert Mundell
The Nobel Prize-winning economist tells Robert Pringle floating exchange rates lies at the heart of global financial instability
Interview with Barry Eichengreen
Berkeley economist Barry Eichengreen talks to CentralBanking.com on the IMF’s new role, reserve currencies and the future of economics as a science
Interview: William Isaac
The former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation tells Robert Pringle that procyclical accounting and capital rules lie at the heart of the crisis
Gudmundsson on Iceland’s collapse and recovery
Már Gudmundsson, the governor of the Central Bank of Iceland, discusses the authority’s rebuilding efforts and whether euro membership is right for them
RBI's Subbarao on reviving growth, decoupling and global imbalances
The governor of the Reserve Bank of India discusses his objectives for his first term and how the decoupling argument needs to be revised
Central concerns
José Manuel González-Páramo, a member of the ECB’s executive board, talks to Risk about the role of the central bank and the need for greater oversight and transparency in the derivatives market
Liquidity lessons from the crisis
Daniel Heller, the head of the Basel-based CPSS, discusses propsoed reforms for payments, clearing and settlements
BIS's Cecchetti on inflation, imbalances and instability
The head of the Bank for International Settlements' monetary and economic department, on how central-bank policy should change in light of the crisis
Ian Macfarlane – a proud record
The former governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia recalls his decade in charge which cemented inflation targeting
How Hong Kong handled the crisis
Joseph Yam, the chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority discusses the global policy response to crisis, Hong Kong’s relationship with China and reserve management in Asia.
Smee on speedier payments
The chief executive of APACS discusses the UK’s first National Payments Plan and the impact of the new Faster Payments service
Ortiz on governance, risk and Mexico's progress
The Bank of Mexico governor and BIS chairman discusses central bank governance, monitoring systemic risk and why Mexico has managed to avoid a financial meltdown despite being hard hit by the crisis
Thorpe on setting up a single regulatory authority in Qatar
Justin Keay speaks with the head of the Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority about Qatar’s move to a single regulatory authority and the plans to roll western-style regulation across the whole country
Wheatley on where regulation is heading in Hong Kong
Justin Keay speaks with the CEO of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission about regulatory priorities in the wake of the credit crunch and the future of regulation in Hong Kong and mainland China