International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Turkish central bank eases liquidity squeeze
Turkey's central bank and treasury held two purchases of government bonds on Monday as part of a package of measures to ease a liquidity squeeze that shook markets last week.
IMF mission leaves Russia with no agreement
Russia is likely to get a frosty reception from the Paris Club of sovereign creditors after an International Monetary Fund mission left Moscow this week without reaching agreement.
Argentina awaits emergency package from IMF
An emergency economic package required by the IMF will be passed in full within 30 days, Jose Luis Machinea, Argentina's economy minister, insisted on Thursday.
IMF warns Brown not to increase spending
The International Monetary Fund's report on the health of the UK economy, published yesterday by the Treasury, warned Gordon Brown, the UK Chancellor, that private spending needs to slow down before the economy can accommodate an increase in public…
Russia and IMF disagree over forex reserves
The Russian government is hoping to resume its talks with the International Monetary Fund in the middle of December, a source close to the talks told the Russian news agency Interfax on Tuesday.
Sarkinas: no policy change until after mid-2001
Reinoldijus Sarkinas, governor of the Bank of Lithuania, met with the IMF mission headed by Patricia Alonso-Gamo. He reiterated that decisions about the planned repegging of the national currency, the litas, from the US dollar to the euro would not be…
Cuba to aim for new debt timetable
Cuba will present its case for a multilateral rescheduling of its foreign debt to western creditor governments this week. Cuban central bank officials and representatives of the Paris Club group of creditor nations are due to meet in the French capital…
Japan needs easy monetary stance, says IMF
Japan's economy still has a problem with deflation, and the central bank should keep its easy monetary policy for a while longer, a senior official at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday.
IMF lobbies private sector over finance standards
An IMF/World Bank team visited London today on one leg of a travellingroadshow designed to sell global financial standards to the private sector.
Reform of the IMF: lessons from Indonesia: Hanke
The IMF's weaknesses became clear to Professor Steve Hanke when he was advising President Suharto about the adoption of a currency board in Indonesia.
Rossi on RTGS and liquidity
PAYMENT SYSTEMS IN FINANCIAL MARKETSReal-Time Gross Settlement systems and the provision of liquidity - Marco Rossi (Macmillan Press Ltd, 1998) 152pp