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Covid and the cloud: a turning point for central banks?
As central banks embrace new technology, providers are jostling to be first in line
Communications Benchmarks 2021 report – executive summary
Insights into staffing and salaries, channels, social media, new technology and strategies
Surveillance and suptech innovation in central banks
Tony Sio, Nasdaq’s head of marketplace regulatory technology, explains the role market surveillance tools play in central banks’ suptech portfolios.
Communications Benchmarks 2021 report – making connections
Data offers insights into staffing and salaries, channels, social media, new technology and strategies
CBDC may be ‘necessary’ to safeguard competition – BoC paper
Authors make case for “public digital payments” as tool to boost competition and innovation
Recipe for a chief (fin)tech officer
Private-sector experience, a knowledge of supervision and a zest for innovation are key ingredients
UK financial sector slowly improving on diversity – BoE paper
Research shows women are gaining a foothold, but progress with age and nationality diversity has stalled
Officials’ public appearances ranged from rare to frequent in 2020
Central banks take different approaches to senior officials’ online presence
Trust and comprehension seen as more important than audience size
Central bankers see trust as the most important measure of communications effectiveness
South African Reserve Bank: the first 100 years
Central bankers and academics reflect on a tumultuous first century for Africa’s oldest central bank
Monitoring tools critical to measuring comms effectiveness
Facebook and YouTube remain most popular social media options, but some central banks are experimenting with others
O CBDC, O crypto! Wherefore art thou regtech?
More investment in regtech needed to secure gains from digital evolution
Inflation reports more frequent than financial stability reports
Clear majority of central banks also use ‘layering’ in key publications
Central banks leverage multimedia communication channels
Around a third have added podcasts, mobile apps and blogs to their comms repertoire
Suptech strategy: the seven missing links
RBI’s Manoj Kumar Singh sets out what central banks need to do to build an effective suptech strategy
Vast majority of central banks provide communications training
Social media, writing skills and public speaking emerged as key areas
Academics miss out on central bank background briefings
After journalists, private sector analysts are offered briefings most often
BIS’s Luiz Pereira on tackling the climate crisis
Deputy general manager highlights the challenge posed by radical uncertainty, the benefits of carbon budgeting, and the case for acting now
Rising spillover risks from macro-prudential policies
Tools used to rein in credit in specific sectors can increase the riskiness of credit in other areas
MAS’s Vincent Loy and Celine Sia on transforming data management
The assistant managing directors explain how uniting business and technology functions is opening up new possibilities for data collection, governance and analytics
China abandons cryptocurrencies under the PBoC (this time it’s for real)
New data centres set to be established to compensate provinces for lost crypto mining revenues
FCA proposes expanding climate-risk disclosure rules
Climate disclosure proposals are first “substantive” policy for asset managers since Brexit
Charles Goodhart on inflation targets, financial stability and the role of money
LSE professor says AIT a mistake, independence under threat amid inflation surge and climate stress tests unconvincing
The winners of the 2021 FinTech RegTech Global Awards
Fourth annual tech awards recognise excellence among central banks and the firms they work with