Bonds
Palau building blockchain government bond platform
Contract won by Japanese company that co-developed Cambodia’s digital currency
MAS carbon emissions rise amid shift to greener investment portfolio
Equity and corporate bond climate exposures fall as rising air travel and data use drive up own emissions
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
SNB carries out first tokenised monetary policy operation
Central bank issued $72 million in bonds on DLT settled in wholesale CBDC
BoJ to reduce its government bond purchases
Central bank will announce bond-buying details at next meeting and keeps rates unchanged
Cecilia Skingsley on monetary policy tech and a unified ledger
Head of the BIS Innovation Hub speaks about tokenisation, CBDCs and the ‘black box problem’ in AI
Trends in reserve management 2024: survey results
Insights on geopolitical risk, AI, asset diversification, risk management and ESG adoption
QE helped smooth sovereign bond yields, ECB paper finds
Eurosystem’s asset purchases helped reduce effect of “auction cycle”, researcher says
China to start selling ultra-long term sovereign bonds
Authorities will start selling 30-year bonds as first stage of major fiscal stimulus
HKMA publishes sustainable finance taxonomy
Hong Kong extends scope of green bond subsidy and develops climate risk assessment tool
Chinese policy-makers warm to PBoC bond trading
PBoC’s trading of government bonds will be different from QE, central bank official says
US news has a large impact on global bond yields – research
Bank of Canada research finds US news affects expectations in other countries
Supervisors grapple with the smaller bank dilemma
How are the guardians of stability moving to address risks linked to smaller banks in the aftermath of SVB’s collapse?
‘Stretched’ bond markets vulnerable to instability – IMF
Expectations of soft landing have compressed spreads and could lead to sudden repricing, report says
Pakistan repays bonds worth $1bn as it seeks fresh IMF loan
Debt-stricken country looks to secure about $6 billion in loans
RBA to shift to ‘ample reserves’ operational framework
New approach will be simpler to operate and reduce market volatility risk, assistant governor Kent says
BoE says risk of ‘sharp correction’ in asset prices has risen
Drop in asset prices could trigger renewed “dysfunction” in core markets, central bank says
Green bonds have negative premium, Italian study finds
Negative “greenium” widened during Covid-19 pandemic, researchers say
‘Passive’ QT can be costly, BoE paper finds
Research highlights need to account for frictions and build “headroom” for future shocks
Escaping the structural liquidity trap
Investment needs to be subsidised not taxed if developed countries want to avoid inflation and financial crises, writes Andrew Smithers