United Kingdom
Interventions helped creditors not shareholders
Bank for International Settlements reviews market reaction to bank rescue packages during the crisis
Triple A ratings safe for now
Moody’s says Aaa countries have stable outlooks
Call for "binding" pay rules on banks
Brown, Sarkozy and Merkel say G20 must act on pay, speculation
Ratings agencies: regulate or downgrade?
Ludˇek Niedermayer worries that regulating ratings agencies will simply increase their influence and create the wrong incentives
UK delivers inflation surprise
United Kingdom’s July inflation figures show prices rose more than expected, but sharp decline predicted in coming months
Northern Rock drops debt repayment
Northern Rock drops payment on part of its subordinated debt
Flexible exchange rate better for welfare
Bundesbank investigates the welfare ranking of exchange rate regimes
BoE's Sentance sees recession ending soon
Bank of England’s Andrew Sentance sees recovery in UK and global economies, with Asia at the forefront
FSA issues code on bank bonuses
UK Financial Services Authority releases rules on bankers’ remuneration policies
BoE publishes semi-annual FX survey
Bank of England finds traditional UK foreign-exchange turnover fell by almost a fifth
UK Financial Investments releases five-year plan
UK Financial Investments publishes budget projections for five years ahead
King’s tribute to Lord George
Bank of England’s Mervyn King honours the memory of former governor Eddie George
Bank says Asset Purchase Facility works
Bank of England confident Asset Purchase Facility (APF) helps corporate bond market
UK to return to rules-based approach?
Philip Davis, head of economics and finance at Brunel University, says in an OECD paper that UK might need a more rules-based approach to banking regulation
Bankers warn against financial protectionism
IIF sees risk as a result of national governments’ efforts to restore confidence
UK public borrowing soars to June high
Public-sector borrowing soars to £13 billion from £7.5 billion in June 2008 on back of financial rescue
British official attacks EU hedge-fund rules
Lord Myners, a UK Treasury minister, labels Brussels’ draft hedge-fund code “ill considered” and “flawed”
Britain begins to offload state banks
Dunfermline sold and supermarket rumoured to be interested in Northern Rock
Smee on speedier payments
The chief executive of APACS discusses the UK’s first National Payments Plan and the impact of the new Faster Payments service
BoE's Barker and Fisher on economic outlook
Although there have been some encouraging signs in the British and global economies, the real question is what is happening to final demand, said Kate Barker, an external member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).
King steps up calls for global monetary reform
Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, on Wednesday urged officials from around the globe to cooperate to fix the instability inherent in the current international monetary order.
Inflation targeting: lessons from the crisis
Spencer Dale, the chief economist at the Bank of England, has said inflation targeting should remain a mainstay of macroeconomic policymaking in Britain.
The state of the art of inflation targeting
The Bank of England's Centre for Central Banking Studies has published a new handbook showing the key features of the inflation-targeting frameworks in each of the 26 inflation - targeting central banks around the world.
UK doubtful on joining ECB's Target2-Securities
Old Lady raises issues on securities transfer