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The Central Banking Awards 2022 virtual ceremony
View the trophy presentations and acceptance comments from the winners of the ninth annual Central Banking Awards
Book notes: Two hundred years of muddling through, by Duncan Weldon
Insights into UK economic history offer lessons for today’s policy-makers
Small drop in US CPI hints at inflation reprieve
Economists estimate US is past inflation peak, but other G7 nations may still be on the upward leg
Tech talent: a global bottleneck for central banks?
Central banks are struggling to recruit people with the right fintech expertise
ECB supervision and the state of the eurozone’s banks
ECB banking supervision has passed the first stage of the Covid-19 test, but many challenges remain
Central Banking Awards 2022: first winners unveiled
Governor of the year, Risk manager, two Green initiative awards and more announced today
Green initiative – regulatory: Banque de France and ACPR
French central bank and prudential regulator created an innovative stress-test methodology
Change at the Bundesbank: from Weidmann to Nagel?
Politics at the apex of German central banking amid Buba/ECB discord
Benoît Cœuré to lead French competition authority
BIS Innovation Hub chief and former ECB executive set to return to Paris
Joint CBDC project highlights promise of interoperability
Banque de France, HSBC and IBM find different technologies can still work together
Trade credit helped amplify initial Covid-19 shock – BdF paper
Net borrowers of trade credit faced sharper liquidity squeeze, researchers find
Project Jura executes ‘real-life’ cross-border CBDC settlement
“Dual-notary” structure could help protect monetary sovereignty, says Benoît Cœuré
Tackling surging inflation
Central banks around the world are grappling with rapid price rises, with some taking very different routes to others
Advanced economies more likely to outsource counterfeit detection
Emerging market economies more likely to outsource distribution
Group tests bond settlement on French CBDC platform
Euroclear says CBDC-driven system can plug into existing market infrastructure
Third parties often develop RTGS technology
Seventy-one percent of respondents said technology underpinning RTGS system was developed by a third party
France and Tunisia carry out cross-border CBDC transfer
Latest BdF experiment sees central banks make wire transfer using wholesale CBDC
Three ways to bolster flawed AML/CFT in the EU
EU must address significant weaknesses if it wants to combat illicit money flows, write Panicos Demetriades and Radosveta Vassileva
BIS and French and Swiss central banks announce joint CBDC project
Project Jura will link national CBDC initiatives in bid to facilitate cross-border payment
Central bank profits under pressure
The structure of a central bank’s portfolio and its relationship with shareholders can affect shock-absorbing capital and the amount of profit distributed
‘Preventive restructuring’ reduces unnecessary bankruptcies – BdF paper
Researchers compare data from French preventive restructuring and traditional bankruptcy systems
Ulrich Bindseil on the launch of the digital euro
ECB’s payments head speaks about the functionality, tiering and technology of the eurozone’s planned CBDC
Banque de France pledges to drop coal-linked assets by 2024
French central bank will also cut oil and gas exposures, and oppose new fossil fuel projects
BdF paper looks at French law on climate disclosures
Law led to sharp cut in French firms’ holdings of fossil fuel-related instruments, research finds