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Poland upgrading banking laws to EU standards
The Polish government has approved amendments to laws on the banking system and the central bank to upgrade them to European Union standards, a finance ministry official said on Wednesday.
IMF says zloty interventions OK to help reserves
The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday said Poland's central bank could consider foreign exchange intervention to maintain the ratio of foreign reserves to hard currency liabilities.
Lithuanian and Polish cbanks sign supervisory deal
Governors of the central banks of Poland and Lithuania on Thursday signed an agreement to facilitate banking supervision between the two countries.
Balcerowicz proposed for Polish central bank chief
Poland's president on Thursday named Leszek Balcerowicz, the architect of the country's free market reforms in the early 1990s, as his candidate to become the new central bank chief, the presidential press office said.
Lithuania should keep currency board - NBP chief
Lithuania should keep the currency board model as long as the situation of country's economy is unclear, the president of the Polish central bank said in the Vilnius conference on Thursday.
Buba views on Eurozone enlargement upset hopefuls
The Bundesbank's bid to make joining the Eurozone tougher for eager east European applicants has upset candidates but analysts said it will be politically impossible to make the demand stick.
Polish opp party wants cbank head with no politics
The Polish opposition party, Democratic Left Alliance, will ask the president to choose the central bank head from among three candidates - Dariusz Filar, Jerzy Stopyra and Andrzej Slawinski.
Balcerowicz closer to becoming Polish c.bank chief
Leszek Balcerowicz, the architect of Poland's economic reforms after the 1989 fall of communism, looks increasingly certain to become the new chief of the country's central bank, politicians said on Tuesday.
Polish MPC hits at budget, rate outlook unclear
Poland's monetary policy council raised doubts on Monday about its readiness to cut interest rates next year, when it said the government's plan for cutting the budget deficit relied on "unrealistic" targets.
Polish president debates new c.bank head next week
President Aleksander Kwasniewski will meet Poland's top three political parties next week to discuss candidates for the new central bank chief, opening the way for a parliamentary vote on the issue as soon as December 6-8.
Polish central bank says no rate cut in Q1 2001
Polish central bank President Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz said on Friday she did not see scope for interest rate cuts in the first quarter of next year but hoped there was room for a cut by the end of the first half of 2001.
Increased support for Balcerowicz as NBP president
Former Polish foreign minister Bronislaw Geremek of the Freedom Union [former ruling coalition junior partner with Solidarity Electoral Action] on Sunday announced he would call on all the parliamentary caucuses to support the candidature of Leszek…
Balcerowicz might be seeking Polish cenbank post
Leszek Balcerowicz, the author of Poland's free market reforms in the early 1990s, said on Friday he would quit his political leadership role, amid expectations he will seek the presidency of the National Bank of Poland.
Balcerowicz best for top central bank post
Poland's liberal former finance minister Leszek Balcerowicz would be the best candidate to replace Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, the outgoing central bank governor, Poland's deputy premier told the best-selling Gazeta Wyborcza daily on Thursday.
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…
NBP discusses draft payment systems laws
Today the meeting of the National Bank of Poland's payment systems council, a consultative and advisory body of the central bank's management board, discussed draft laws that implement the basic regulations of the European Union in the area of payment…
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.