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Fintech & IT Benchmarks 2021 – presentation
Central Banking’s fintech and IT subject matter specialist Rachael King speaks with Christopher Jeffery about fintech and IT staffing and salaries, research and investment, system resilience, CBDCs and the wider fintech ecosystem
Economics Benchmarks 2020 – presentation
Central Banking’s economics subject matter specialist Daniel Hinge speaks with Christopher Jeffery about how central bank economists fared in a year where the Covid-19 pandemic upended the usual business of forecasting, analysis and research
Otmar Issing on the art of central bank communications
EMU architect speaks about Draghi’s “whatever it takes” intervention, forward guidance failures, the Fed’s average inflation target ‘miscommunication’, and why the ECB may be overreaching in its strategy review
Currency Benchmarks 2020 – presentation
Central Banking’s currency subject specialist Rachael King speaks with Christopher Jeffery about the future of cash, the relationship between substrates and counterfeits, and how central banks are making their cash operations more sustainable through…
The winners of the 2020 FinTech and RegTech Global Awards
Central banks and their partners have innovated across machine learning, cloud services, payments and more
Maggiori, Neiman and Schreger on capital flows and Covid-19
The Global Capital Allocation Project sheds light on where vulnerabilities may lie
The Central Banking Awards 2020 virtual ceremony
View the trophy presentations and acceptance comments from all the winners recognised in the seventh annual Central Banking Awards
James Bullard on the Fed’s policy review, FSOC and forecasting jobs data
St Louis Fed president discusses his support for average inflation targeting, his concerns about US Treasuries market function, non-bank regulatory weakness and negative rates, as well as the unexpected success in using Homebase data to predict highly…
Claudia Buch: ‘We need higher transparency’ on resolution
Bundesbank vice-president discusses progress towards ending ‘too big to fail’, evidence of fragmentation and how to fill information gaps
Elsie Addo Awadzi on turning around Ghana’s banking system
The Bank of Ghana led a multi-pronged effort to rescue or resolve several banks and hundreds of smaller firms
Global growth will strengthen in 2020, says strategist
Central banks should be cautious about responding to manufacturing slowdown, Kevin Gardiner says; Fed likely to cut again in September 18 decision
Big data should help solve problems ‘on the ground’ – Ireland’s Kearns
Central banks need to do more than simply invest in technology and analytics, says Kearns
Sveriges Riksbank uses website analytics to improve visitor experience
Visitors spend more time on and engage with more areas of website, Riksbank official tells Central Banking
Lithuania adopts maximum diversification as defensive strategy
Risk parity protects portfolio from lower bond prices and lower-for-longer yield environment
Trade dispute causes PBoC ‘a lot of problems’ – Peking University's Xiao Geng
Monetary policy dilemma for PBoC due to US trade dispute; FSDB can curb regional excesses
Canada’s Sabean on tackling a data governance overhaul
The Bank of Canada has been making “significant investments” in data, says senior director
Papua New Guinea transitions to IFRS 9
Central bank will look to disclose more information around risk exposures
Demetriades on political pressures on central banks and their governors
Former governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus speaks about the Cypriot banking crisis, the need for EU-wide AML oversight, independence and his fears for stability of the monetary union
Brian Wynter on Jamaica’s inflation-targeting transition
Jamaican governor says the end of fiscal dominance plus the creation of a two-way forex market and an effective interest rate policy mechanism essential for “full-fledged” inflation target
James Bullard on 2% rates, tariffs and Fed leadership
The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis speaks about the impact of US trade policies, the disruption to the banking industry from Silicon Valley, shrinking the Fed balance sheet and the potential for agent-based modelling
Bank of Lithuania improves data accessibility in new website
Redesign offers videos and infographics to explain key policies; audience has increased by 10%
Kganyago on central bank independence and future plans for the IMFC
The South African Reserve Bank governor spoke with Christopher Jeffery at the Central Banking Awards about the South Africa’s new president, the importance of operational independence and key targets for the IMFC
Bank of Israel profits from rising equities – market operations director
Andrew Abir says Israeli central bank has benefited from rising US equities
Financial regulation powers pose new threats to central banks – Kganyago
Emerging markets are better equipped to deal with capital flows, Sarb governor says