International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Nijathaworn with some thoughts on IMF reform

In the speech 'Some thoughts on IMF reform on crisis prevention and crisis resolution' given on 28 February Bandid Nijathaworn of the Bank of Thailand said the challenge to IMF reform on crisis prevention and crisis resolution has many dimensions.

Comment: The IMF's Global FSR

The IMF yesterday unveiled its latest Global Financial Stability Report at the Bank of England head office in London. "The near-term outlook is as good as it gets," Gerd Hausler, director of the IMF's capital markets unit, said at the press conference.

Will IMF set sights on managing global reserves?

This article published on Saturday 8 April says that some indication of the IMF medium-term strategy report's likely content can be gleaned from a series of speeches given over the past two months by de Rato, and deputy managing directors Takatoshi Kato…

Perspectives on low global interest rates

This IMF Working Paper, published March 2006, looks at the dramatic decline in global real interest rates in recent years from a historical perspective and examines the various factors that may account for this trend.

Rato on the IMF and global imbalances

In the speech 'How the IMF can help promote a collaborative solution to global imbalances' given on 4 April Rodrigo de Rato of the IMF proposed a multilateral forum where developing and industrialized nations can address ways to rebalance the global…

Joint external debt website launched

The Bank for International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and the World Bank announced on Thursday 30 March that they are jointly launching a new website.

Review of IMF-World Bank collaboration

Rodrigo de Rato, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank Group, announced Wednesday they have initiated a range of measures to promote a deeper and early review of Fund-Bank collaboration.

State Bank of Vietnam urged to modernise

The State Bank of Vietnam has not reached the levels of transparency and accountability required of a successful central bank, a State Bank official was quoted as saying by Vietnam News.

IMF managing director to travel to Mexico

Rodrigo de Rato, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, will travel to Mexico, March 22-25, to participate in a meeting of the Capital Markets Consultative Group (CMCG) in Mexico City.

IMF paper on central banks and seigniorage

The IMF Working Paper "Spending seigniorage: Do central banks have a governance problem?" published March 2006 reviews how central banks allocate seigniorage, based on systematic crosscountry comparisons of their financial accounts.

Comment: The benefits of supervisory integration

A new IMF working paper investigates the trend toward integrating the regulation and supervision of banks, non-bank financial institutions and securities markets. The authors attempt to fill a gap in the literature by empirically assessing the impact…

Canada's Macklem on renewing the IMF

In the speech 'Renewing the IMF: Some lessons from modern central banking' given on 9 March Tiff Macklem of the Bank of Canada said the IMF should also play a role in setting the "rules of the game" in the international financial system, including…

SARB's Mboweni blasts 'know-it-all' IMF

South African Reserve Bank governor, Tito Mboweni, slammed the IMF and World Bank on Tuesday 28 February for what he called their high handedness and know it all approach when dealing with developing countries.

IMF's de Rato to visit Honduras

Rodrigo de Rato, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will visit Honduras on February 27, 2006, at the invitation of the President Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales.

Comment: Zimbabwe's mystery repayment

Two weeks ago the Zimbabwean government managed to avoid expulsion from the IMF by paying off a large chunk of its debt to the Fund. However, the source of the forex-depleted government's finances remains a mystery.

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