Big data
BIS unveils new data portal
Bank will hold training courses for journalists wishing to access statistics
Public trust: the role of the private sector in exploring digital currency
Digital currencies that effectively protect financial privacy in lawful transactions will garner enduring confidence in the highly integrated networks of the future, argue J Christopher Giancarlo and Daniel Gorfine
Central Bank of Ireland suffers credit data breach
Over 20,000 borrowers’ credit scores impacted by “archiving error”
Machine learning pushes frontier of forecasting
AI techniques are starting to transform central banks’ modelling
BIS says strategic plan now 80% complete
Institution reports rise in profits as it continues to overhaul banking services
Third-party risks are a first priority for central banks
Cyber and concentration risks crystallise co-operation between critical infrastructure providers
What economists learned from Covid-19
A rush of work on ‘epi-macro’ yielded breakthroughs and then faded. Will there be lasting benefits?
OK regulator? How AI became respectable for AML controls
Dutch court case pressures supervisors to accept new tech; explainability the key challenge
Bank of Lithuania targets 2025 for data governance overhaul
Central bank moves to “hub-and-spoke” structure as it seeks to streamline reporting and analytics
PBoC pushes big techs to hand over user data, report says
Some tech firms are resisting order to supply information to PBoC-led credit-scoring firms
Christopher Sims on modelling the inflation surge
Unprecedented shocks creates major challenges for forecasters, the Nobel prize-winning economist says
How to run a world-class economics department
Central banks have myriad ways of organising their economists
The signal and the noise: cash forecasting in uncertain times
From big data tools to Arima models and structural time series, cash forecasting methods are evolving
AML supervision at central banks: 2022 survey
Kroll explores why many central banks are investing in skills and data to tackle money laundering, but resourcing constraints are preventing stronger action, as Central Banking’s survey data reveals.
Half of fintech benchmarks respondents use AI/ML tools
Richer nations more likely to use artificial intelligence
Podcast: fixing the gaps in fintech laws
Fintech is reshaping the financial system, but laws are not adapting so fast, say IMF lawyers
Currency Benchmarks 2021 – presentation
Central Banking’s currency subject matter specialist Rachael King on access, impact of Covid-19, and more
BIS paper calls for action on big tech dominance
“Digital platforms” can boost inclusion but may undermine other central bank objectives, authors say
Podcast: why the future of data management sits in the cloud
Cloud technology has numerous benefits for central bank data management
Google data offers real-time indicator of business closures, says BoC research
Google Places database can reveal whether businesses are gone for good or just “hibernating”
Economics Benchmarks 2021 report – executive summary
Covid-19 coloured central banks’ views on the governance of their economics function in the past year
Data services centralised at minority of central banks
Central data governance and technology services used by three in 10 central banks
Currency Benchmarks 2021 report – executive summary
Perspectives on staffing, circulation, forecasting, note security and composition, outsourcing and more