European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Former Hungarian governor joins race for EBRD job
Budapest has nominated Gyorgy Suranyi, a former governor of the National Bank of Hungary, to succeed Jean Lemierre as president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
London calling for Czech governor Tuma?
The Czech government has nominated Zdenek Tuma, the governor of the Czech National Bank, to become the next president of the London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
Deputy confident Russia will withstand turmoil
The Russian finance industry will escape largely unscathed from the credit crunch, though lending conditions may get tighter, said Gennady Melikyan, a first deputy chairman at the Central Bank of Russia.
Czech Republic breaks free of EBRD support
The Czech Republic has become the first country to opt out of funding from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the development bank set up to invest in the central and eastern European transition economies.
France supporting EBRD's Lemierre for IMF
Paris and Berlin agreed Monday that a decision should be made quickly on naming a new head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and that, as in the past, the person should be a European. A press report earlier said France would propose Jean Lemierre…
Croatian National Bank holds conference on reforms
9th international conference on the reforms, results and development experiences of transition and emerging market economies, organized by the Croatian National Bank, started in Dubrovnik on Thursday, June 26. This year's Conference will focus on banking…
Financial Stability Forum Press Release, 11 April
PRESS RELEASE - First FSF regional meeting with central and eastern European authorities. The Financial Stability Forum (FSF) today held its first regional meeting with central and eastern European countries at the European Bank for Reconstruction and…
Eastern Europe, CIS face slower growth-EBRD report
EASTERN EUROPE - Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union face a sharp reduction in economic growth and a growing imperative to step up the pace of reform, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said on Apr 22.
Rusnok to be governor at WB, Tuma governor at IMF
CZECH REPUBLIC - The Czech cabinet on Apr 19 appointed new finance minister Jiri Rusnok to be Czech governor on the Board of Governors of the World Bank and Czech central bank governor Zdenek Tuma on the board of governors of the International Monetary…
Lemierre rejects talks on ECB candidature - report
GERMANY - Jean Lemierre, president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, dismissed media speculation he is a candidate as the next head of the European Central Bank, a British newspaper reported on Apr 16.
France backs Trichet, but Lemierre in wings-paper
FRANCE - Bank of France Governor Jean-Claude Trichet remains France's choice to succeed Wim Duisenberg as president of the ECB, but another Frenchman Jean Lemierre is an "option," French finance ministry sources told Les Echos.
Duisenberg to give way to Trichet mid-02-Lemierre
EUROPE - The European Central Bank on Mar 27, 2001 declined to comment on remarks by a senior European banker suggesting ECB President Wim Duisenberg will step down in mid-2002 to make way for Bank of France head Jean-Claude Trichet.
Gronkiewicz-Waltz at the EBRD
In an interview with a Polish business journal, the Governor of the National Bank of Poland talks about her decision to leave the central bank and what her future duties at the EBRD will be.
Interview with Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz
The changes to Poland's monetary policy framework in the 1997 National Bank of Poland Act have proved rather difficult to swallow. But now the reforms are bedding down, central bank presidentHanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz can focus on preparing Poland for…
Polish central banker resigns
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz announced she would leave the Polish central bank inJanuary to become a deputy head of the European Bank for Reconstruction andDevelopment.