International
BIS says CBDC can be monitored without personal information
Project Tourbillon dashboard allows aggregate-level monitoring

Basel Committee mulls mandatory climate disclosures
Proposals envisage "iterative process" of adding climate risks to Basel framework

FSB warns of spillovers from ‘multifunction’ crypto firms
High risks and poor governance in crypto sector could impact traditional finance, report says
The ECCB’s Timothy Antoine on currency union, cooperation and DCash 2.0
The ECCB governor speaks with Christopher Jeffery about maintaining a currency zone, addressing climate and cyber risks, the decline in correspondence banking and lessons learned from issuing a retail CBDC
Cyprus central bank defends supervision after sanctions-busting claims
Prime minister pledges report after media investigation says Russians used local firms to dodge sanctions
Carstens says ‘quantum leap’ needed to overcome legacy systems
BIS chief says tokenisation, CBDC and unified ledgers could ‘democratise’ finance
Currency Benchmarks 2023 – model banks analysis
Data reveals how advanced and emerging market central banks structure their currency operations
Strong dollar harms EME bond market liquidity – BIS paper
Dealer intermediation vulnerable to both “original sin” and “original sin redux”
Currency Benchmarks 2023 report – steady as they go
Data hints cash is slowly changing from payment method to store of value
Supervisors face reputational risk from fraud, Basel Committee says
Surveys shows some forms of digital fraud are rising, but data gaps are “significant”, paper warns
BIS names top journals for central bank research
Not all of the top five general economics journals make the list, and finance journals miss top spots
CBDCs could challenge foundations of monetary economics, says Tombini
BIS Americas chief thinks digital currencies could co-exist with other rapid payment systems
Middle income countries recall highest volume of worn banknotes
High income jurisdictions remove notes with the highest average value
Costa highlights economic costs of gender inequality
Chilean governor says women’s marginalisation reduces growth and innovation
UK financial institutions are ‘global public good’, says Bailey
BoE governor warns against fragmentation, criticises Brexit and discounts rate cuts
IMF’s Adrian says world needs $5 trillion annual climate funding by 2030
Multilateral banks working to ‘crowd in’ private finance to meet need
Corridor, floor, other: are operating frameworks fit for the future?
Central banks are becoming aware that monetary operations have ramifications beyond setting short-term rates
IMF proposes 50% increase in quotas but no voting reform
Proposal likely to be acceptable to US but would not boost emerging markets’ representation
Covid-era fiscal policy helped fuel inflation, researchers say
Robert Barro and Francesco Bianchi say their evidence supports fiscal theory of the price level
Covid-19 impact on cash demand minimal in past year
Majority of currency departments relax pandemic countermeasures
Data sharing as a policy intervention
Increasing access to data represents another policy lever regulators can pull to achieve their objectives, writes David Bholat
US fiscal stimulus decreases output in rest of world – research
A helicopter drop policy could be the most effective co-ordinated effort
AI could trigger explosive growth – and crush labour’s share
Past research may underestimate AI’s ‘transformative’ potential, economists say
People: New governor in Sierra Leone
Brazilian president nominates two new central bank directors; new head of statistics at ECB; and more