Articles by Joasia E. Popowicz
Basel Committee to consult on stablecoin capital requirements
Feedback also sought on interest rate risks and G-Sib “window dressing”
BIS, World Bank and IMF to collaborate on tokenisation project
Digitisation of notes will facilitate transfer of development money to emerging economies
Crypto, trade and environmental crime among AML/CFT risks – IMF
Staff propose increasing country assessments to twice per year
A turning point for reserve managers?
After many central banks’ reserves declined in 2022, how should managers evaluate their fixed income investment policies in an uncertain period following years of unprecedented shocks?
Cyprus central bank defends supervision after sanctions-busting claims
Prime minister pledges report after media investigation says Russians used local firms to dodge sanctions
Visa and Mastercard power Kazakhstan’s CBDC debit cards
Digital tenge also designed to ensure “targeted and efficient government spending”
Banxico's García on reserve risks: inflation, market volatility and war
Gerardo García, director general of central banking operations at Bank of Mexico, discusses fixed income, including US Treasury and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) dynamics, currency diversification, the value of external managers and his extensive use…
SNB to launch live wCBDC pilot in December
ECB’s wholesale digital euro exploratory work will start in 2024
Regulators around the world join Singapore’s tokenisation project
Singapore, UK, Japan and Switzerland will collaborate on decentralised finance infrastructure
Bénédicte Nolens on the latest mBridge developments
The head of the Bank for International Settlements’ Hong Kong Centre speaks about cross-border CBDC governance, ongoing FX challenges and evolving technology
MAS defends AML supervision in wake of billion-dollar scandal
Credit Suisse, Citi, DBS and Deutsche Bank among firms implicated
Kazakhstan central bank governor replaced with presidential staffer
Move comes amid flurry of new appointments made this year
Kazakhstan joins mBridge project
NBK joins cross-border CBDC project as an observer
Swift tokenisation experiments connect multiple blockchains
Banks and FMIs working towards 24/7 global asset trading settlement and servicing
Policy transmission weak in Caucasus and central Asia – IMF
Recommendations include improved communications, and intraday and overdraft credit facilities
Hungary’s gamified CBDC pilot designed for children
Student Safe project is the first live retail CBDC pilot in Europe
SEC targets NFTs in enforcement action
Two commissioners dissent from first SEC action against NFT issuer
Bank of Canada’s Maryam Haghighi on quantum computing in central banks
The director of data science talks about post-quantum encryption, payments simulation and optimisation problems
Fed rate hikes propel ‘crypto cycle’ – IMF paper
Monetary policy more correlated with institutional investment in tech than finance
Quantum computing and AI threaten financial system, Fed says
Ransomware groups seek to “exert maximum pressure on victim organisations”
BIS attacks crypto in report to G20 officials
But report promotes DLT for use in cross-border wholesale CBDC
BIS reports gaps in CBDC cyber security modelling
Over 90% of central banks now working on a CBDC project, survey finds
FATF finds global crypto AML failures
Most jurisdictions “struggle with fundamental requirements”
BoE and BIS develop digital currency APIs
Bank of Canada, Central Bank of Hungary, Visa, Mastercard and Amazon involved