Bailout
Fed retort: nothing to hide on AIG
Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, invites the government to audit the central bank’s dealings with AIG; NY Fed submits 250,000 pages of evidence to Congress
Who should decide on LoLR support?
Central Bank of Uruguay’s Jorge Ponce looks at who should decide on emergency liquidity assistance
Iceland -- Financial Stability Report 2009
Central bank's report shows a lack of international support for rescuing systemically important institutions
Congress forces NY Fed to reveal AIG record
Federal Reserve Bank of New York subpoenaed for records of communication with AIG
Fed posts record $46 billion profit
The Federal Reserve says it made a record profit in 2009; NY Fed is pressed to publish AIG records in spiralling political row
Fed appeals to withhold bailout names
Federal Reserve goes to a US appeals court to overturn ruling forcing it to reveal the institutions rescued to the tune of $2 trillion at the height of the financial crisis
RBS and Lloyds to get £39.2 billion more
The part-nationalised banks are set to receive up to £39.2 billion in additional support measures announced on Tuesday
Public banks good for growth
Central Bank of Cyprus finds that government ownership of banks has been associated with better long-run growth performance
Nigeria’s banking landscape set to change: Sanusi
The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria says the ongoing clean-up will lead to a reduction in the number of large banks
Tucker: “no clear idea” on too-big-to-fail fix
Bank of England's Paul Tucker acknowledges lack of clarity in solving too-big-to-fail problem
Bailout announcements agitated markets, shows IMF study
IMF working paper shows bailout decisions aggravated inter-bank markets, and argues for a coordinated policy response to restore global confidence
Interventions helped creditors not shareholders
Bank for International Settlements reviews market reaction to bank rescue packages during the crisis
Sounder banks’ borrowers get burned in mergers
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) looks to Japan for firm-level evidence on the real effects of bank bailouts
Spain appoints new deputy amidst first bailout
The Spanish government named Francisco Javier Ariztegui as the Bank of Spain's new deputy governor on Friday.
We won't let banks fail - Nigeria's Soludo
Chukwuma Soludo, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, said on Monday that the central bank will not allow any of the domestic banks to fail.
BoJ pledges up to 1 trn in subordinated loans
The Bank of Japan is to offer its banks subordinated loans worth up to 1 trillion ($10.1 billion) to bolster its banking sector, crippled by the recent slump in equity prices.
How the US can abate anger at bankers' bail-out
Brendan Brown, the chief economist at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, offers two remedies to temper public outrage at the bail-out of Wall Street.
Look to Stockholm for bailout tips: Cleveland Fed
A Cleveland Federal Reserve study has urged officials to follow Sweden's lead in resolving the financial crisis.
Reactions to Tarp 2
Initial reaction on the new financial industry bailout plans announced on Tuesday, suggest that investors and observers are underwhelmed by the lack of details available at this stage and fear that the measures will continue to fall short of the…
What to look for in Tarp II
Tim Geithner, the US Secretary of the Treasury, has delayed unveiling the plans for the next steps in administration's financial bailout programme until Tuesday. Here is a summary of the new steps that could be announced tomorrow.
National regulators must revise Basel II
National regulators need only make a small change to the Basel II framework to avoid future government recapitalisations. It is essential that they do so, say Samuel Sender and Noel Amenc, two researchers at France's EDHEC business school.
SNB offers dollar-denominated bills for UBS loan
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) announced on Monday that it will issue its own bills denominated in dollars.
INTERVIEW: Charles Wyplosz
Charles Wyplosz, a professor at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and an occasional consultant to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, tells CentralBankNews.com why the Fund cannot play a role in regulating the financial system, why the Paulson…
Great Depression was different - St Louis Fed
Policymakers must remember that circumstances very different to those that led to the Great Depression had triggered the current crisis, research from the St Louis Federal Reserve states.