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Central Banking FinTech & RegTech Global Awards 2021
In March 2021, Central Banking launched its fourth annual FinTech & RegTech Global Awards to showcase some of the groundbreaking projects undertaken in the community. The results are revealed in the awards articles published in this special winners’…
The winners of the 2021 Fintech & Regtech Global Awards
Fourth annual tech awards recognise excellence among central banks and the firms they work with
Lithuania cancels firm’s licence over alleged Wirecard money laundering
Fintech business committed “severe infringements” in dealings with collapsed German firm – central bank
Lithuanian parliament approves new governor
Gediminas Šimkus caps long career at Bank of Lithuania
The changing data landscape
Central Banking speaks to six policy-makers for their thoughts on the evolving data landscape and what central banks must do to adapt to a data-driven policy world.
Nordic and Baltic countries ask IMF for money laundering report
Move follows string of scandals over massive AML breaches in Baltic and Nordic banks
Bank of Lithuania paper explores spillovers of US policy uncertainty
Authors find “significant recessionary and deflationary effect” and synchronous response worldwide
The changing data landscape: Part 1
Central Banking speaks to Eyal Rozen, Ramūnas Baravykas and Wanpracha Chaovalitwongse about whether there is a need to change underlying infrastructure to bolster data-driven policy-making
The long-term impact of Covid-19 on banknote demand
Cash usage assumptions challenged at a time when central banks make limited use of longer-term forecasts
Pressure from Facebook may speed up digital euro development – panellists
ECB does not plan to announce whether it will proceed with digital euro proof of concept until mid-2021
Baltic central banks aim for joint commercial paper market
Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian central banks to work with EBRD on creating short-term debt market
The winners of the 2020 FinTech and RegTech Global Awards
Central banks and their partners have innovated across machine learning, cloud services, payments and more
People: IMF appoints strategy head
Pazarbasioglu moves back to IMF; Lithuanian president appoints central bank board member
Lithuanian central bank welcomes anti-money laundering centre
Inter-agency centre will involve finance ministry, tax authority, banks and law enforcement
Bulgaria: long live the currency board
Bulgaria should reject the euro and extend its currency board to cover bank deposits
People: BIS picks Lamfalussy fellow; Iceland appoints research director
BIS names 2020 fellow; Icelandic central bank promotes economist; Jekaterina Govina becomes director of supervision in Lithuania
Central banks should collaborate on multicurrency CBDC – research
Lithuania’s central bank notes national CBDC projects will not solve global payment inefficiencies
Three EU central banks hail success of Belarus project
Capacity-building project was first such EU mission in country noted for strong Russian links
People: Brazil likely to replace deputy with San Francisco Fed economist
Fernanda Nechio nominated for Brazilian central bank board; two appointments in Lithuania; and more
Baltic and Nordic regulators form anti-money laundering group
Move follows wave of scandals over handling of alleged money laundering
Lithuania adopts maximum diversification as defensive strategy
Risk parity protects portfolio from lower bond prices and lower-for-longer yield environment
Estonian and Danish authorities trade accusations as further AML scandal breaks
Swedish, Estonian and Lithuanian authorities announce joint investigation into Swedish bank
Nordic-Baltic crisis simulation seeks to reinforce collective response
Nordic-Baltic Stability Group carried out first region-wide crisis scenario in January
