Data
Currency Benchmarks 2021 report – executive summary
Perspectives on staffing, circulation, forecasting, note security and composition, outsourcing and more
Covid-19 causes bigger growth forecast errors
But central banks perform better at forecasting inflation
How Turkey’s president created chaos in economic policy-making
Observers allege presidential domination of the central bank, unauthorised FX transactions and untrustworthy statistics
Podcast: central banks’ data models going granular
Vizor Software’s CTO provides an update on changes to central banks’ regulatory data models
Nearly 40% of central banks have financial sector in main forecast model
Semi-structural models remain favoured option for producing key forecasts
Podcast: Central banks and cloud adoption
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced central banks to think differently about cloud-hosted services
Podcast: Bank of Lithuania on becoming a ‘data-centric’ organisation
Officials from the Bank of Lithuania provide an update on their Data Management Maturity Program, Damama
BIS statistics: OTC derivatives market value back to 2019 levels
Gross market values have fallen about a fifth since second half of 2020
BIS and HKMA conclude green DLT project
HKMA says it is considering pilot issuance of tokenised green government bonds
Podcast: Dominik Weh on why central banks need to embrace technology
Central banks need to keep abreast of the current technology or risk being left behind
Carney says over $130 trillion of capital now pledged to net zero
But rich countries admit they have fallen short of net zero financing goals
Data protection ‘high on the agenda’, says PBoC governor
The central bank has forced major fintech firms to hand over their customer data
Monetary Policy Benchmarks 2021 – presentation
Central Banking’s monetary policy subject specialist Daniel Hinge speaks with Christopher Jeffery about the governance of the policy function
‘Say what?’ Trust in central bank communications
Central banks are changing how they communicate with different audiences, but judging the success of these communication efforts is difficult
RBNZ climate stress test planned for 2023
Central bank faces challenges in adapting NGFS scenarios to New Zealand
Kenya’s banks told to prepare climate risk plans by 2022
Central bank publishes guidance urging banks to integrate climate risk into broader risk management
CBDC just one option for future payment system, says BoJ official
Japan’s central bank says CBDC could solve safety and interoperability issues, but is not the only option
James Bullard on Fed policy, action and governance
St Louis president calls for tapering, quantifies AIT and details Congress’s role in Fed ethics
Georgieva promises to learn lessons from ‘Doing Business’ controversy
IMF chief says she will have “candid discussion” with staff after accusations of improper conduct
Georgieva keeps job as Yellen promises further scrutiny
Evidence did not “conclusively demonstrate” the IMF chief played an “improper role”
Empirical economists win Nobel Prize
Card, Angrist and Imbens share prize for work on labour markets and causality
Cœuré warns ‘analogue’ supervisors must adapt to digital world
BIS official says growth of fintech demands supervisors respond with technology of their own
Covid-19 has accelerated paradoxical developments in cash usage
Antti Heinonen explores the unusual patterns in banknote demand in 2020
UK’s FCA to invest £120 million in move towards cloud
Chief executive Nikhil Rathi says FCA will be “data and digital first” regulator