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Italy’s expansionary budget increases pressure on debt
Draghi warns government plans have tightened financial conditions for households and businesses
Future balance sheet size hard to judge – BoE’s Ramsden
Reserves demand likely to become more important as QE winds down, but how large the balance sheet will be is an “open and difficult question”, deputy says
HKMA launches new faster payments system
New system will reduce transaction time and scrap interbank fees
Bundesbank paper looks at secondary markets’ role in bank runs
Adding secondary markets to model significantly alters possible equilibria, authors say
Female regulators increase stability of the financial system, IMF paper finds
IMF research: including women in the regulatory process has benefits “beyond” equality
EC’s Cyprus ‘failure’ undermined Eurozone central bank independence – Demetriades
Barroso’s decision not to take legal action against Cyprus for undermining the independence of the central bank damaged the ECB’s authority and emboldened others, claims former CBC governor
New York Fed wraps up final sales of crisis portfolio
Maiden Lane vehicle created in wake of Bear Stearns bailout ultimately turns a profit
Report says financial firms may be ‘overconfident’ about cyber
Accenture’s research shows only around 20% of firms are making improvements to IT security
Bank of Brazil and HKMA sign fintech agreement
Central banks to promote innovative financial services companies
Demetriades on political pressures on central banks and their governors
Former governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus speaks about the Cypriot banking crisis, the need for EU-wide AML oversight, independence and his fears for stability of the monetary union
Banks will ‘inevitably’ fail, says Ireland’s Donnery
Deputy governor takes stock of the policies implemented since the financial crisis to protect consumers against bank collapse
A decade on: Lehman Brothers at the brink
On September 14, 2008, there remained hope that Lehman could be saved and a crisis averted. Events moved rapidly thereafter
Atlanta Fed tackling commercial banking compliance
Article sheds light on Fed’s approach to supervising smaller institutions
RBA’s Bullock: Australia faces large housing risks
Debt-to-income ratio has risen and banks are highly exposed to the housing sector
Swiss banks are more resilient now than before crisis – Zurbrügg
‘Too-big-to-fail’ especially relevant for Swiss economy due to strong role of few major banks
Cyber crime potentially biggest risk to Danish banks, central bank says
Central bank study finds most financial institutions have reinforced their security since 2016
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Insights from network analytics in suptech
With regulators leveraging technological innovations to move towards informed, data‑driven decision‑making and automation, supervisory technology is attracting enhanced interest. Kimmo Soramäki and Phillip Straley examine how regulators are gaining…
Distributed ledger technology in regulatory reporting
Satisfying regulatory demands can be made cheaper and more straightforward via distributed ledger technology as regulatory reporting has a transformational effect on the regulatory value chain. Maciej Piechocki, Moritz Plenk and Noah Bellon of…
An informed approach to banknote security and durability
De La Rue explains how its data consultancy service, DLR Analytics, allows central banks to ensure notes in circulation are secure and durable, and offers value for money in spite of increasingly prominent alternative payment solutions. By facilitating…
Supervisory lessons: management traits of problem banks
Former Bank of Spain head of supervision Aristóbulo de Juan highlights the lessons he has learnt about the management of problem banks and how to stop dangerous activities before they take hold – in the first of a four-part series on supervision
The Bank of England’s missing records
Central banks need to implement robust archiving frameworks, should they want to maintain public trust and learn from the lessons of the past, writes former Bank of England official historian Forrest Capie
Cyprus inquiry probes central bank’s role in lender’s collapse
Senior supervisor says central bank and ECB failed to act after chief executive resigned in 2015
China’s ‘big five’ banks highly inefficient – Bank of Finland paper
Biggest lenders suffer from persistent inefficiency, researchers say