Banks
Four foreign banks tap into digital yuan market
Standard Chartered and HSBC enable clients in mainland China to access e-CNY services
Basel Committee mulls mandatory climate disclosures
Proposals envisage "iterative process" of adding climate risks to Basel framework
Karnit Flug on the Bank of Israel’s emergency responses and challenges ahead
The former Israeli central bank governor and current vice-president of the Israel Democracy Institute speaks with Christopher Jeffery about the BoI’s targeted emergency responses, economic uncertainties and central banking independence
RBI replaces bank’s management over governance concerns
Supervisors intervene over “poor governance standards” but allow lender to continue operating
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
ECB prioritises IT outsourcing and cyber resilience supervision
Institutions lost $161 million due to poor-quality outsourced services in 2022
Two dozen Vietnamese central bankers accused of bribery
Vietnamese authorities allege 24 central bank officials took bribes from a troubled lender
RBI’s Das warns banks to avoid ‘exuberance’ as credit surges
Indian central bank tightens macro-prudential policy on consumer credit
Smaller US banks face unequal real estate risk, paper says
St Louis Fed research finds lenders hold 40% to 75% of commercial real estate debt
Eurozone banks show “early signs of stress”, ECB warns
High interest rate will test eurozone’s resilience while some non-banks are at risk, review says
Defending the basis
Benefits of additional Treasury liquidity may outweigh potential intervention costs during a hypothetical panic, writes Joseph Wang
MAS to test “live” wholesale CBDC next year
Central bank chief Ravi Menon backs CBDCs, stablecoins and tokenised bank liabilities as digital money
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
Party’s over as more banks drop internal models for market risk
At least three systemic banks in Europe intend to ditch IMA for capital requirements
RBNZ to ban foreign bank branches from retail deposits
Central bank plans to change regulatory policy for branches of overseas banks in 2028
Fed’s Cook is concerned about non-banks and real estate prices
Hedge funds could rapidly pull out of Treasury cash futures market
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
Geopolitical risks threaten financial stability – Norges Bank
Norwegian central bank says banks are well-capitalised but notes real estate problems
Mexico implements emergency cash plan after hurricane
Banxico authorises banks to suspend minimum payments on credit cards
MAS imposes further penalties on Singapore’s biggest lender
Central bank penalises DBS after country’s largest bank experienced repeated service outages
Central banks tend to outsource banknote printing
De La Rue is most commonly used printer among respondents
Data sharing as a policy intervention
Increasing access to data represents another policy lever regulators can pull to achieve their objectives, writes David Bholat
BoE’s Hauser makes case against ultra-lean balance sheets
Even with central bank backstops, markets are not reliable liquidity managers, official says
China vows long-term strategy to resolve local debt risks
Officials stress need to strengthen Communist party control over China’s financial sector