Big data
OK regulator? How AI became respectable for AML controls
Dutch court case pressures supervisors to accept new tech; explainability the key challenge
Podcast: mapping entity relationships
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
Podcast: Central banks and cloud adoption
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced central banks to think differently about cloud-hosted services
Podcast: Bank of Lithuania on becoming a ‘data-centric’ organisation
Officials from the Bank of Lithuania provide an update on their Data Management Maturity Program, Damama
Banknote forecasting with big data tools on the rise
Three-quarters of central bank currency departments yet to use big data
James Bullard on Fed policy, action and governance
St Louis president calls for tapering, quantifies AIT and details Congress’s role in Fed ethics
Cœuré warns ‘analogue’ supervisors must adapt to digital world
BIS official says growth of fintech demands supervisors respond with technology of their own
UK’s FCA to invest £120 million in move towards cloud
Chief executive Nikhil Rathi says FCA will be “data and digital first” regulator
Covid and the cloud: a turning point for central banks?
As central banks embrace new technology, providers are jostling to be first in line