Bank of England (BoE)
Former BoE deputy to review RBS SME lending practices
Andrew Large will look into RBS group's lending practices in a bid to ensure more liquidity reaches UK businesses
Carney prioritises 'women on banknotes' issue
New Bank of England governor says issue of present and future female representation on banknotes is under discussion; pledges further public announcement by end of July
BoE's Tucker wants immediate 3% leverage ratio in UK
BoE deputy governor Paul Tucker calls for 3% leverage ratio to be imposed immediately on UK banks; says banking crisis has taken capacity out of financial system
Mark Carney era underway at Bank of England
Expectations are high the new Bank of England governor will introduce forward guidance; academics point out he will first need to win over a divided MPC
BoE MPC member says QE has worked, and exit need not cause turbulence
David Miles says opponents of QE are overly pessimistic, and research he has been conducting suggests it ‘might well be part of an optimal monetary policy strategy'
Bank of England concerned by ‘vulnerability’ to interest rate increases
Financial Stability Report calls for assessment of financial institutions' exposure to increases in global interest rates; recommends banks are allowed to reduce their liquid asset holdings
King defends Bernanke over communication of Fed policy
Bank of England's Mervyn King says Fed chairman Ben Bernanke could ‘hardly have been clearer’ over future of monetary policy; vents his frustration at slow pace of economic reforms
Jane Austen ‘quietly waiting in wings’ to feature on UK banknote
Bank of England governor Mervyn King says Jane Austen is a likely candidate to feature on next £10 note; fails to appease concerns over all-male banknote roster
BoE and PBoC open ‘very important’ renminbi swap line
Bank of England and People’s Bank of China establish three-year 200 billion yuan swap line; fourth largest of its kind and first in European Union
UK's Royal Mint brings back golden guinea to mark 350th anniversary
New £2 coin designed in the style of the now disused guinea, featuring the crest of King George III; coin will enter circulation later this year
BoE's King says expectations less important than economic conditions
Bank of England governor says focus should be on creating the right economic conditions for normalising monetary policy rather than talking people through it
UK banks told to find £13.4 billion in extra capital
Bank of England’s PRA says Lloyds and RBS need to raise extra £10.2 billion; Osborne says government will ‘do what it can’ to return both banks to the private sector
Bank of England’s FPC needs expanding, says UK parliamentary review
Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards delivers verdict on UK’s new regulatory architecture; recommends appointing additional external member to FPC to shift power away from bank insiders
UK parliamentary review slams 'half-hearted' Bank of England reform
Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards calls for overhaul of Court of Directors; dismisses central bank's Oversight Committee as ‘half-hearted at best'
Carney appoints Bank of England's first-ever chief operating officer
Charlotte Hogg, currently at Santander, will become the most senior woman at the BoE; final decision to appoint was made by incoming governor Mark Carney
Robert Pringle’s Viewpoint: Rebalancing the fraught relationship between governments and central banks
The growing politicisation of central banking involves central bankers needing to make difficult judgement calls on the areas that lie outside of their competence
Carney's Bank of England should seek closer ties with ECB, says MEP Bowles
Sharon Bowles will raise issue of European co-operation at her first meeting with Mark Carney - saying it is even more of a priority now Paul Tucker is leaving
Central banks laying the seeds for ‘crisis in fiat money’, says UK MP Baker
Chair of UK parliamentary group for economics says a sharp correction in developed world sovereign bond prices could spark a collapse in confidence and challenge the sustainability of fiat money
BoE research warns of self-fulfilling prophecy in 'speed-limit’ monetary policy
Working paper says targeting rates of change may not be as beneficial as some studies have suggested; could cause interest rates to become ‘pinned’ at the zero lower bound
Bowles: Give ECB its ‘smoke and mirrors'
ECB's chief inquisitor says central banks must retain 'a certain amount of mystery' to keep fiat monetary systems going; interaction between ECB's monetary and supervisory arms will be 'difficult'
BoE deputy Paul Tucker quits after 33 years
Deputy governor for financial stability will stay for Mark Carney's first few months as governor of the Bank of England, before leaving to spend a ‘period of time in academia in the US'
Bank of England paper says above-target inflation threatens expectations anchor
Article in latest quarterly bulletin says UK inflation expectations remain anchored for time being but could be dislodged if high inflation persists
UK banks on cyber threat alert, says BoE’s Haldane
Chief risk officers at UK banks worried about cyber-attacks on financial institutions; Bank of England official says government must take ultimate responsibility to guard against cyber threats
UK mulls US-style bank stress tests
Bank of England seeks to improve bank stress tests by including publicly disclosed remedial actions as debate intensifies over independence and the use of a leverage ratio in the UK