Central Banking
BoE extends contract with De La Rue
UK printer will help central bank continue to develop printing site as world leader
Cambodia officially launches quasi-CBDC
Cambodia’s blockchain-powered payment system goes live
Fed eases terms on emergency facility as uncertainty rises
High-frequency indicators suggest US recovery is slowing amid resurgence of virus cases
Central Banking FinTech & RegTech Global Awards 2020
In April 2020, Central Banking launched its third annual FinTech & RegTech Global Awards to showcase some of the groundbreaking projects being undertaken in the community
Egyptian central bank fires head of largest commercial lender
Governor holds emergency meeting with lender’s board but nature of problems is unclear
Fed paper presents model of Covid-19 trade-offs
Data-driven model implies lockdown can work if a vaccine can be developed quickly enough
Argentina changes rates without public notification
Central bank continues its plan to close the gap between main policy rates
BIS could play renewed role amid Covid crisis, scholar says
Fed’s role in dealing with Covid-19’s international effects has parallels with 1960s, historian argues
Green projects ‘demanding’ to find – Norway’s SWF head
Chairman tells lawmakers he may expand fund’s use of external managers
Paper offers method for evaluating machine learning models
Bank of Spain paper looks at cost and benefits of ML models for predicting credit defaults
Regulators need common crypto asset standards – policy-makers
“Too many” crypto assets created to avoid regulation, official tells Central Banking summit
Central banks become net gold sellers for first time in 10 years
Sales by gold producers Turkey and Uzbekistan lead decline in global holdings
Bundesbank paper looks at consequences of weak supervision
Supervisors seen as less likely to intervene give banks incentive to stay undercapitalised - researchers
New polymer banknotes are greener and cheaper – T&T governor
Central bank plans to review coin denomination usage later this year, Alvin Hilaire says
Lagarde warns of ‘negative’ November for eurozone
ECB keeps policy tools unchanged but president says it will recalibrate in December
Firms still making too few climate disclosures, task force says
TFCD report highlights rapid rise in firms backing disclosure, but says fewer are taking action
ECB council gives green light to Frank Elderson’s appointment
Dutch official set to replace Yves Mersch on December 14, but still needs parliamentary backing
Equities have passed the Covid-19 test, reserve manager says
The higher yield and resilience these assets have offered in 2020 may further boost reserve diversification
Eurozone credit tightened in Q3
Worsening economic outlook boosts borrowers’ credit risk, says the ECB
The technical foundations of SupTech
Robert Binder, Daniel Kämmerer and Daniel Münch of BearingPoint RegTech explore the architectural principles crucial for successful supervisory technology – or SupTech – applications, and examine the future of regulatory reporting in this context, with…
Bank of Canada ‘recalibrates’ QE programme
Central bank changes programme’s focus as Covid-19 cases climb
ECB says Target2 outage was caused by third-party network device
“Root cause” was software defect in third-party network device in eurosystem’s network – ECB
The winners of the 2020 FinTech and RegTech Global Awards
Central banks and their partners have innovated across machine learning, cloud services, payments and more
Eurozone’s RTGS system suffers major outage
ECB says Target2 system’s production site had to shift to alternative region – rules out cyber incident