CB Opinion
(Un)stablecoins and central banks
Time to tackle stablecoin structures and support mechanisms
Gender equality is key to sustainable development
Bank of Zambia’s Rekha Mhango sets out central bank’s strategy on financial inclusion
Understanding informal remittances
Better tracking of remittance flows could give central banks valuable insights to support policy
Holding the line: the right response to war and Covid
Jagjit Chadha offers advice to policy-makers struggling to navigate between economic shocks
How to stop stablecoins from hoarding precious collateral
Repo markets expert and crypto bank chief exec think Fed reserves are the right answer
Do CBDCs make sense for Latin America?
Steven Kamin says CBDCs may be particularly beneficial to emerging market economies
Quantum computing: ready for prime time?
Central banks should add QC to their strategic planning, despite it being a work in progress
Fractures in the monetary system
Seizure of Bank of Russia assets likely to have long-term implications for international system
Are central banks ahead of banknote counterfeiters?
Antti Heinonen analyses data on recent trends in counterfeiting
Picking up the pieces: how to tackle the next phase of the Covid crisis
The global economy is heading into dangerous territory, writes Jagjit Chadha
How Afghanistan’s central bank can help prevent famine
The most pressing need is to ease a US dollar banknotes shortage
Inside the Bank of Israel’s emergency cash supply exercises
Amir Safranovich and Meir Bitton describe the central bank’s ongoing work on emergency preparedness
Is Latin American monetary policy still counter-cyclical?
Steve Kamin asks whether Latin American central banks are tightening aggressively by historical standards
Turkey’s Dornbusch moment
Turkey’s new deposit scheme sets the stage for hyperinflation, writes Barry Eichengreen
How to solve the payments privacy paradox
Anonymous CBDC has major drawbacks, but privacy in payments can still work, says Dave Birch
Tackling surging inflation
Central banks around the world are grappling with rapid price rises, with some taking very different routes to others
Time to stop handing out the pills: the great QE detox
We are facing a serious inflation threat that will test the resolve of central bankers, writes Jagjit Chadha
Interoperability of stablecoins
Central bank reserves could be a better option for backing stablecoins than Treasuries, say Manmohan Singh, Caitlin Long and Charles Kahn
MMT and the challenge of fiscal monetary co-ordination
Sayuri Shirai contrasts modern monetary theory with regimes of monetary or fiscal dominance
Too great expectations from the ECB’s strategy review
The review process represents operational best practice, but will fail to unify the Governing Council
Green finance and mispricing: what role for central banks and governments?
Governments and central banks cannot stay on the sidelines, says Sayuri Shirai
The six key drivers for digital currency
Dave Birch breaks down the forces that are pushing central banks towards CBDC
Finalising Basel III is crucial for the EU banking sector
EU banks stand to be more heavily impacted by Basel III finalisation, but that is not a good reason to hesitate, says Pedro Duarte Neves
Technology is the best bet in fighting money laundering
Danish FSA chief Jesper Berg says there is a need to think ‘outside the box’ on corrupt money