Opinion
Covid-19 has accelerated paradoxical developments in cash usage
Antti Heinonen explores the unusual patterns in banknote demand in 2020
MMT and the challenge of fiscal monetary co-ordination
Sayuri Shirai contrasts modern monetary theory with regimes of monetary or fiscal dominance
Too great expectations from the ECB’s strategy review
The review process represents operational best practice, but will fail to unify the Governing Council
How we can improve gender diversity in economics
Mary Suiter and Oksana Leukhina say gender diversity in economics must be championed
Green finance and mispricing: what role for central banks and governments?
Governments and central banks cannot stay on the sidelines, says Sayuri Shirai
The six key drivers for digital currency
Dave Birch breaks down the forces that are pushing central banks towards CBDC
The IMF’s $650bn SDR allocation and a future ‘digital SDR’
Focus is needed on widening SDR use in payments, to support a large allocation of ‘official’ IMF SDRs
Finalising Basel III is crucial for the EU banking sector
EU banks stand to be more heavily impacted by Basel III finalisation, but that is not a good reason to hesitate, says Pedro Duarte Neves
Technology is the best bet in fighting money laundering
Danish FSA chief Jesper Berg says there is a need to think ‘outside the box’ on corrupt money
The ECB’s monetary policy strategy review
Otmar Issing offers some initial perspectives on the ECB’s strategy review
O CBDC, O crypto! Wherefore art thou regtech?
More investment in regtech needed to secure gains from digital evolution
Three ways to bolster flawed AML/CFT in the EU
EU must address significant weaknesses if it wants to combat illicit money flows, write Panicos Demetriades and Radosveta Vassileva
Suptech strategy: the seven missing links
RBI’s Manoj Kumar Singh sets out what central banks need to do to build an effective suptech strategy
The RBI’s next big question: how to normalise monetary policy?
India’s central bank needs to plan an exit from its efforts to manage the ‘impossible trinity’
Inflation, Fed policy and emerging markets: the good, the bad and the ugly
Steve Kamin explores the global implications of rising inflation and interest rates in the US
Rising spillover risks from macro-prudential policies
Tools used to rein in credit in specific sectors can increase the riskiness of credit in other areas
China abandons cryptocurrencies under the PBoC (this time it’s for real)
New data centres set to be established to compensate provinces for lost crypto mining revenues
El Salvador’s bitcoin currency experiment
Move by first nation to approve bitcoin as legal tender raises important issues
It’s time to smash Iran’s endemic inflation
As Iran goes to the polls, high inflation is still plaguing the economy. Steve Hanke looks at solutions
Multiple expectations test communications
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s communications are being tested, says Mike Hannah
Sizing the benefits and risks of our climate ambition
Fixing climate change is likely to entail substantial risks, write Sarah Breeden and Frank Elderson
A return of the inflation monster?
Fears grow over the intellectual shift to running economies ‘hot’
Diversity is key for policy-making and institutional culture
North Macedonia governor Anita Bezhoska says more needs to be done to attract women to finance
The new era of money supply and its impact on policy
The empirical relationship between money and inflation has changed, writes Manmohan Singh, with Apoorv Bhargava and Peter Stella