Banks
Non-banks generally seen as lesser threat than banks
Central banks much more likely to want new tools to tackle risks in the banking sector
Australian indigenous nation advances with digital currency
Birri Gubba dollar to be pegged to AUD and backed by assets including carbon credits
Monetary policy has less impact on private credit – Fed research
Funding, ‘dry powder’ and fund returns for asset class remain high amid policy tightening
Hedge funds and dealers have outsized price impact – BoE paper
Mutual funds have smaller impact so may not play central role in fire sales, authors say
ECB sees ‘areas for improvement’ following cyber stress test
Experiment focuses on response and recovery from database losses on 109 banks
Banks not fully prepared for repo risks – BoE’s Benjamin
Margining practices fail to account for “jumps to illiquidity”, executive director says
Book notes: How a ledger became a central bank: a monetary history of the Bank of Amsterdam, by Stephen Quinn and William Roberds
A masterful piece of monetary history that is relevant to modern-day central bankers
Full-scale war with Hezbollah is a tail-end event – Bank of Israel deputy
Andrew Abir says central bank has advised government to ensure adequate fiscal space as it expects war to last longer and revises its growth and inflation forecasts
Turkey’s economic odyssey: inflation, lira decline and strategic shifts
Marcello Minenna delves into the damage of 20 years of ‘Erdoganomics’
Book notes: Bucking the buck: US financial sanctions and the international backlash against the dollar, by Daniel McDowell
A timely and well-documented book about the weaponisation of the US dollar
Banque de France and HKMA to conduct cross-border CBDC test
HKMA is the first non-European central bank to join the Eurosystem’s wholesale DLT settlement trials
BNM’s Rasheed on inflation, growth and currency performance in emerging markets
Bank Negara Malaysia’s governor speaks about balancing inflation and growth, supporting the ringgit, multilateral currency settlement and greening Islamic finance
Masaaki Shirakawa on his ‘unease’ about 2% inflation targets and lessons from Japan
The former Bank of Japan governor speaks with Christopher Jeffery about the need to properly understand the business of banking, making sound contingency plans and the BoJ’s current policy constraints
Trademark confusion influences US depositors, Fed paper finds
Federal Reserve Board researchers find a similar name to a failed bank decreases deposits
Payments Benchmarks 2024 – model banks analysis
Breakdowns of key data from the payments benchmark shed light on how the function is governed
Bank and non-bank links pose systemic risk, NY Fed warns
Researchers find interdependence between the two sectors is growing
Most asset purchase programmes are winding down
Around a quarter of respondents have open APPs but most are shrinking
SNB carries out first tokenised monetary policy operation
Central bank issued $72 million in bonds on DLT settled in wholesale CBDC
ECB paper presents new measure of bank performance
“Bank edge” compares individual banks’ book returns to benchmark portfolio
Non-banks in RTGSs: greater efficiency or more risk?
Policy-makers and practitioners from central banks in Brazil, Hungary, Israel, Romania, Rwanda and the US share their perspectives
Ransomware payments can be necessary, say panellists
Paying off hackers may be only way to safeguard financial stability, despite risks
How to cut the interest cost of bank reserves – and how not to do it
William Allen says setting required reserves is not a straightforward decision for the Bank of England
BoJ hawkishness due to weak yen belies wage inflation concerns
The contrast in Japan-US economic, price and wage performance and their implications for monetary policies
BoE reserves framework drawn into political arena
Minor party’s proposal to axe interest on reserves highlights BoE’s costly operating framework