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ISO 20022 payments messaging adoption rate increases
Majority of central banks uphold plans to transition by 2025
Central banks need short-run climate models – BdF governor
Governments may push central banks into ineffective climate action, Sarb governor warns
More than 80% of central banks are investigating CBDC
Central banks feel negatively about retail digital currencies in their payment systems
Most central banks regulate or operate instant payment systems
Bank accounts, phone numbers and QR codes are most common access tools for instant payments
Most RTGS systems are more than three years old
Nearly 60% of central banks plan to upgrade their RTGS payment system in the next year
Most central banks use third-party payment providers
Montran, Swift, and CMA Small Systems come up repeatedly as third parties
MAS launches AI training programme for key financial institutions
Central bank will design training programmes with universities and institutes
ECB paper suggests faster methods for estimating eurozone employment
Nowcasting tools outperform models currently used by ECB, researchers say
IMF’s Adrian on the systemic threat posed by a ‘weak tail’ of financial institutions
The IMF’s financial counsellor speaks to Christopher Jeffery about bank runs and emergency interventions, market and oversight failings, and the need for action on run rate assumptions, interest rate risk, deposit insurance, crypto regulation and a ‘weak…
Around half of communications staff hold master’s degree or above
Over 40% of staff were hired with a communications degree on average
Most people visit central banks’ websites via search engines
Clicks on social media platforms drive around 7% of traffic to central banks’ websites
Most central banks give background briefings on key initiatives to journalists
Practice is dominant across central banks from advanced and emerging economies
Book notes: States and the masters of capital, by Quentin Bruneau
Chronicling the practices and players involved in privately financed sovereign debt
Boosting social media and improving websites top priorities for comms teams
Data suggest central banks’ focus on communicating with the public
Communications departments get involved in key policy decisions at varying stages
Early communications involvement in policy decisions raises effectiveness
Regnology cements regtech-suptech dominance with Metadata acquisition
Series of bank collapses underscores need for timely data on firms’ regulatory metrics
EME central banks favour social media, AE institutions prefer traditional channels
Central banks actively manage four social media platforms on average
Central banks most effective in monetary policy communications
All participating central banks monitor media to gauge effectiveness of communications
Email, events and seminars top tools for internal communication
But few central banks have a mobile app for staff communication
Book notes: Money and the rule of law, by Peter Boettke, Alexander Salter and Daniel Smith
A largely US-focused book, which hankers for more robust rules for central banks but isn’t explicit as to what kind
Risk Management Benchmarks 2023 – presentation
Specialist Victor Mendez-Barreira discusses market volatility, cyber security and progress on climate change
Most AE central banks split internal and external communications
But those in emerging market economies tend to assign the tasks to a single team
Climate change and the role for central banks
Gavin Bingham, Andrew Large and Paul Fisher explain how climate change affects central banks and the competing tensions it raises in relation to policy responses
Most central banks have centralised communications teams
Result broadly similar across central banks in advanced and emerging market economies