Data
Middle income countries more likely to report rising NPL levels
Most high income respondents say NPL levels have fallen in last five years
Long-term data can shed light on current inflation – NBER paper
Authors suggest first half of 20th century has clearer parallel to current inflation than 1970s
Banking resolutions are rare events in most countries
Two jurisdictions account for 77.9% of resolutions reported by sample
Reserve requirements most commonly used macro-pru tool
Responses show differences in measures favoured by high and middle income economies
Most central banks do not want more macro-pru powers
But minority of benchmark participants want governments to adopt measures in use elsewhere
Lower income jurisdictions more likely to have sole regulator
Likelihood among respondents that central bank is only banking regulator declines as income rises
Communications Benchmarks 2022 – presentation
Central Banking’s economics subject matter specialist Daniel Hinge on communications governance, social media, media monitoring and more
Taiwan academics call for central bank reform
Academica Sinica says the central bank could invest part of its foreign reserves into a SWF
Central banks rarely administer deposit guarantee schemes
Lower-middle income countries less likely to have such schemes
Richer nations less likely to have central banks as sole macro-pru authority
Respondents from lower-middle income countries more likely to be only macro-prudential body
How central bank mistakes after 2019 led to inflation
There is a need to acknowledge errors and take concrete action to restore confidence in policy-making
The case for restoring the role of monetary aggregates
Surge in money supply in response to Covid-19 triggered rampant inflation
Central bank boards often used for stability decisions
Institutions from high income countries most likely to give stability remit to boards
Monetary Policy Benchmarks 2022 report – executive summary
Benchmarking data sheds light on some of the key aspects of central bank frameworks
Macro indicators are most-used metric for monetary policy impact assessment
Trend most common among European and African institutions
Swift gears up for innovation around digital currencies
Head of innovation at global payments messaging provider speaks CBDC, tokenised assets and AI
Monetary policy-makers’ votes still usually anonymised
Votes concealed most among lower-middle and low income institutions
Rising inflation still stalks major Latin American economies
Tighter monetary policy in Brazil, Chile and Mexico is failing to bring inflation down
CPMI creates framework for linking payments
Linking and use of APIs could cut need for long chains of correspondent banks, report says
Monetary policy staff pay highest in advanced economy institutions
Staff in monetary operations tend to earn slightly less than policy colleagues
Monetary policy set a maximum of 12 times a year
Frequency of meetings highest on average in upper-middle income economies
FSB cross-border payments work hampered by data problems
Measuring progress “will not be straightforward”, working group says
Asian central banks deploy FX reserves to prop up currencies
Analysts remain confident in Asia’s financial stability, but recession risks are building
Bank of Canada deputy stresses heterogeneity’s role in monetary policy
Debt may complicate tightening cycle, as Canadian consumer inflation expectations rise