Opinion
Escaping the structural liquidity trap
Investment needs to be subsidised not taxed if developed countries want to avoid inflation and financial crises, writes Andrew Smithers
CBDC is inevitable
Central bank digital currency should be thought of as a platform rather than a product, writes Dave Birch
Levelling the playing field for stablecoins
Regulatory asymmetries are a barrier to innovation in digital payments
CBDCs are unlikely to be successful
Most money is already digital, and currency has lost its central function, writes former Barbados governor DeLisle Worrell
Europe’s half-baked benchmark switch leaves some dissatisfied
Users frustrated by narrow scope of euro transition, but replacing Euribor was never a euro group objective
Regulating data use: implications of data sitting in the middle
Regulators need to take action to ease tensions created by the growing use of data, says Manoj Singh
Sooner or later, Argentina should dollarise
Dollarisation would be straitjacket, says Steve Kamin, but still looks preferable to the other options
Managing reserves amid climate change and home-shoring
Central banks can still make asset allocations with solid climate outcomes, despite the slippage in net-zero timetable, writes Gary Smith
Policy-making amid war in Gaza
Bank of Israel has implemented a textbook crisis response, but uncertainty remains
Defending the basis
Benefits of additional Treasury liquidity may outweigh potential intervention costs during a hypothetical panic, writes Joseph Wang
Data sharing as a policy intervention
Increasing access to data represents another policy lever regulators can pull to achieve their objectives, writes David Bholat
Public trust: the role of the private sector in exploring digital currency
Digital currencies that effectively protect financial privacy in lawful transactions will garner enduring confidence in the highly integrated networks of the future, argue J Christopher Giancarlo and Daniel Gorfine
Yes, Argentina can replace the peso with the US dollar
Steve Hanke and Matt Sekerke explain how dollarisation can succeed despite the BCRA’s limited reserves
Central banks must brace for another energy shock
Conflict between Israel and Hamas adds to the risk of inflation and recession, says Paul Mortimer-Lee
FedNow – at last
The instant payment system might help fix the US’s rusty payment rails, but it also faces competition, says Dave Birch
Demand for cash under uncertainty: a global update
Antti Heinonen explores data showing surges in cash demand during periods of uncertainty
A league table for central bank hawkishness
Steve Kamin runs the numbers to assess which central banks have raised rates most aggressively
Stress-testing the banking system: what lies ahead?
Pedro Duarte Neves says stress tests must evolve to capture systemic, liquidity and cyber risks
Will the use of CBDCs improve cross-border payments?
International trials using CBDCs highlight significant architectural and practical challenges, writes Warren Coats
Data privacy and protection: non-negotiable supervisory equations
Manoj Singh says data protection is essential to modern finance, but throws up myriad supervisory challenges
Jackson Hole in the wake of policy rules
Symposium heralds a move to relying on incoming data and judgement, rather than rules or even formal models, to hit inflation targets, writes Barry Eichengreen