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Finalising Basel III is crucial for the EU banking sector
EU banks stand to be more heavily impacted by Basel III finalisation, but that is not a good reason to hesitate, says Pedro Duarte Neves
Technology is the best bet in fighting money laundering
Danish FSA chief Jesper Berg says there is a need to think ‘outside the box’ on corrupt money
The ‘golden age’ of central banking has passed
Central banks are up against multi-faceted challenges and weakened autonomy amid highly polarised inflation expectations
The ECB’s monetary policy strategy review
Otmar Issing offers some initial perspectives on the ECB’s strategy review
ECB launches digital euro project
Central bank supports European Commission plan for e-identity rollout across the eurozone
Could higher US inflation boost euro’s international role?
Divergent rates of inflation may compel investors to look for alternatives to the dollar, panellists say
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
Three ways to bolster flawed AML/CFT in the EU
EU must address significant weaknesses if it wants to combat illicit money flows, write Panicos Demetriades and Radosveta Vassileva
Climate risks narrowly concentrated among EU banks, report finds
Only 25 EU banks bear most exposure to physical risks of climate change, ECB-ESRB report says
The RBI’s next big question: how to normalise monetary policy?
India’s central bank needs to plan an exit from its efforts to manage the ‘impossible trinity’
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
EU blocks 10 major banks from bond issuances
Commission alleges lenders need to clarify previous antitrust breaches
EU common debt to boost euro’s international role – ECB
Currency still faces negative rates, fragmented debt market and lack of triple-A assets
Cash infrastructure as public good – implications for the cash cycle
Eurosystem is seeking to safeguard cash infrastructure even as transaction volumes plunge
Dollar’s share of global reserves falls to 25-year low
Gradual decline may stem from currency diversification by emerging market central banks - IMF report
The evolving ‘strategy function’ in central banks
Study shows central banks still struggle to fully utilise strategy units
BIS to operate sterling liquidity facility backed by BoE
Move echoes 20th century arrangements when BIS acted as intermediary in swaps network
DNB survey finds 49% of respondents ready to use digital euro
Over half of sample had not heard of central bank-issued digital currency, survey finds
Central banks take less than 50 minutes to fix critical outages
Time tolerances for critical system downtime range from one to 32 hours
High income economy central banks’ technology costs vary widely
Some central banks in advanced economies have kept costs as low as those in poorer nations
A rebuttal of Philip Turner’s criticism of the BIS ‘house view’
Critiquing Philip Turner’s occasional paper, ‘The new monetary policy revolution: advice and dissent’
A bellwether moment for CBDC plans
Launch of ‘sand dollar’ may herald a new era of CBDCs as Fed and ECB step up their preparations
Central bank of the year: The Federal Reserve System
Overwhelming Fed interventions forestalled a damaging global financial crisis