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Rethinking capital-flow resilience in an age of recurring shocks
Amro’s Yasuto Watanabe and Takuya Yoshioka argue that policy-makers need a range of credible monitoring and policy tools to address the next major shocks
Eurozone banks tighten credit standards – ECB survey
Lending conditions for firms, consumers and homebuyers expected to become more stringent in Q4
The risks and returns of ever-expanding swap and repo lines
Increase in central bank swap agreements and repo facilities should help to counter future liquidity squeezes. But the proliferation is fraught with political risk
BoE survey finds UK financial firms shifting to GenAI
Respondents expect systemic risk to increase as tech becomes more widespread
Burning ambition: will Europe join the US in setting fire to the rules?
As the US dismantles post-crisis regulations, some think Europe will follow in a bid to boost economic growth
Singapore touts trust and neutrality to win central bank gold
MAS and SBMA believe there is room for multiple gold hubs; play down competition with Hong Kong
Paraguay’s central bank rebuffs bank supervision criticism
Several politicians have called on BCP leadership to resign over supervision of Ueno Bank
Bank of Israel rebukes Netanyahu over sanction evading crypto plan
Former deputy governor tells Central Banking prime minister’s proposals are ‘stupid’ and ‘crazy’
Iberian central banks sign MoU to tackle quantum computing risks
Bank of Portugal and Bank of Spain to co-operate on post-quantum cryptography
Banknote environmental impact awareness grows
Share of currency departments with a climate strategy increases to 50%
Bank of Albania says deposits are safe amid political crisis
Central bank sustained “minor damage” to building and says payment services remain uninterrupted
Malaysia and Thailand join MAS digital payments initiative
BoT, BNM and World Bank join MAS project alongside eight private sector players
Governor says NBU not under suspicion in police raid
Bank also rejects reports that Andriy Pyshnyy had submitted his resignation
Sarb’s fast payment platform ‘far from ubiquitous’ – governor
Pricing and lack of public awareness among factors limiting adoption of PayShap
Central bank heads agree on consensus, but reject groupthink
French, Nigerian and Swiss chiefs discuss their diverse approaches to monetary policy decision making
Former Richmond Fed chief to oppose discount window reform
Counting unused capacity towards prudential requirements would be ‘unwise’, Lacker will argue
Google Cloud outage causes disruption across UK banks
Barclays, Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Lloyds and Revolut customers among those reporting problems
Holding limits could support CBDC adoption – ECB study
High threshold, plus reverse waterfall functionality, could mitigate stability risks, researchers say
PBoC considering making overnight rate its benchmark
Governor says rate already ‘benchmark-like’ as he unveils onshore FX pilot and other measures
BoE probes Barclays’ handling of private credit loans
FT report says PRA investigating misallocation of derivatives following internal complaint
Fed finds larger-than-expected bank exposure to private credit
Researchers add sector to national accounts for first time