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Central Banking Awards 2020: second group of winners unveiled
Prizes awarded for governor, reserve management, green initiative, asset manager and custody
Innovation in reserve management: BlackRock
The US asset manager has made great strides in its technology, research and advisory capabilities, allowing clients to implement ESG while preserving financial returns
UAE, Bahrain and Nambia team up to tackle money laundering
Common framework will help nations share and analyse AML/CFT data
Central Banking Awards 2020: first winners announced
Prizes include central bank of the year, risk manager, payments and FMI, and treasury systems
Financial market infrastructure services: Bloomberg
The US company has helped central banks improve monetary operations and deepen forex markets by scaling up technical infrastructure and database monitoring capabilities
RBNZ economists look to improve GDP statistics
“GDPplus” has several advantages over standard GDP statistics, authors say
Fines given by UK FCA ballooned in 2019
UK regulator dishes out fines for AML breaches, mis-selling and poor treatment of consumers, but watchdog also falls short on own pension responsibilities
BoE seeks partner to build public cloud environment
Central bank prepares for “step change” in IT infrastructure
Global cross-border lending growth at highest rate since 2008
Bank claims continued to grow “rapidly” in Q3 2019, latest BIS figures show
Angola’s central bank establishes inflation expectation indicators
Central bank issues new surveys to gather information on prices following exchange rate liberalisation
BIS statistics committee to focus on fintech and big data in 2020
Irving Fisher Committee plans to complete its fintech work and update a 2015 survey
BoE prepares for regulatory data shake-up
Central bank keeping open mind on future of regulatory data collection; FCA plans to expand “advanced analytics” and automation
Machine learning can produce better credit scores – BIS paper
Fintech firms may be better at predicting default rates, researchers find
2020: fintech and beyond
At the turn of the decade, central bankers share their thoughts on financial technology – past, present and future
IADI highlights move to strengthen deposit insurance
Survey of 113 schemes finds they are becoming more generous and faster to pay out
India’s approach to national biometric ID applicable to ‘all economies’
BIS paper examines how India created digital financial infrastructure as a public good
BoE should improve governance around research, review finds
Research has improved but some issues remain, Independent Evaluation Office says
Overhaul of RBA archive sees a third of records digitalised
Externally-facing archive will give public greater insight into central bank’s history – review
Podcast: Central Banking launches Tech Talk series
In the inaugural episode, Rachael King and Adam Csabay cast a critical eye over some of the biggest fintech developments of 2019
Cloud throws up new financial stability risks – FSB
Reliance on third-party cloud platforms creates risks, especially given market power of providers
Atlanta Fed develops new data app
App provides access to Fed bank’s most popular data points and tools
Data sharing could curb big tech dominance – FSB
Ensuring all financial market incumbents have access to same data could level the playing field
T&T governor calls for productivity reforms
Alvin Hilaire says improvement still required despite recent increase in productivity
Global house price growth slows, but China still surging
BIS figures show broad slowdown in growth, though prices are still rising fast in some places