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Dollar reserves dip
Latest Annual Report from the International Monetary Fund shows official sector shifting into euro, yen
Fed will fail to land systemic risk role, Zoellick predicts
World Bank’s Robert Zoellick says Fed will not get systemic risk role, moots Treasury. Sees renminbi, euro strengthen reserve status
Danes set to avoid euro vote – report
Report says Copenhagen will not hold euro referendum on waning support for single currency
From triumph to the brink of despair
Robert Pringle looks at the last two decades, as viewed through the pages of Central Banking
Croatia’s Vujcic deputy on “unorthodox” regulation
Croatian National Bank’s Boris Vujcic outlines regulatory approach under euro dominance
Bank of Estonia – Annual Report 2008
Bank of Estonia’s Andres Lipstok says adopting euro would increase foreign investors’ confidence in the domestic economy
Estonia to head straight for euro – Lipstok
Bank of Estonia’s Andres Lipstok says euro adoption is a key priority
Foreign demand for euro banknotes on the rise
European Central Bank shows that 2008 saw a strong increase in the demand for euro-cash outside the euro area
ECB - Financial Stability Review June 2009
Most large and complex banking groups operating in the euro area appear to have enough capital to withstand severe but plausible stress scenarios, notes the latest Financial Stability Review from the European Central Bank.
Latvia buys euros for first time since November
The Bank of Latvia bought euros for the first time in seven months last week after the lats gained on hopes that Riga would not have to devalue the currency.
Riksbank raids euro swap line to shore up stabilit
The Riksbank on Wednesday said it would tap €3 billion ($4.2 billion) from a swap line set up with the European Central Bank (ECB) to ensure it was "well-prepared to continue safeguarding stability."
Europe's ACHs bemoan Sepa's slow start
Europe's leading automated clearing houses (ACHs), which process and route payments, hit out at the lack of progress on the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) on Wednesday and called for an end date for national standards to hasten its implementation.
ECB staff set for "warning" strike
European Central Bank (ECB) staff are to take industrial action for the first time ever over pensions reform.
Bank of Latvia - Annual Report 2008
For the Latvian economy, 2008 was a year of radical change, said Ilmars Rimsevics, the governor of the country's central bank in its latest Annual Report.
Interview: Zdeneˇk Tu°ma
Martina Horáková speaks to the Czech governor about the crisis, calls for cross-border supervision and the process for adopting the euro
Are Libor spreads near the new normal?
A decline in interbank spreads shows confidence is returning. But, the margins at which spreads settle are likely to reveal much about how the crisis has changed the face of finance for years to come, Claire Jones, the editor of CentralBanking.com, says.
France explains Sepa delay
The French National Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) Committee has justified its decision to delay the implementation of Sepa Direct Debit until November 2010, a year after the first available start date.
ECB's Papademos: injections staved off collapse
The expansion of liquidity to the eurozone's banks since August 2007 has ensured that a systemic crisis was averted, said Lucas Papademos, the vice president of the European Central Bank.
France bails on Sepa Direct Debit
The French National Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) Committee, set up and chaired by the Banque de France and the French Banking Federation, has opted to delay the implementation of Sepa direct debit by a year to November 2010.
ECB's Bini Smaghi: credit easing won't work for us
Unconventional policy measures that would best suit the euro area are likely to differ in terms of scope and depth from those in the United States or other advanced economies, said Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, a member of the European Central Bank's (ECB)…
Eddie George on independence and supervision
In 2000, Sir Eddie George, the former governor of the Bank of England who died at the weekend, spoke on the Bank's then new-found independence and the loss of its supervisory function
Albania's Ibrahimi: euro liquidity crucial
It is important that a reasonable flow of euros from banking groups' headquarters to their foreign subsidiaries is maintained, said Fatos Ibrahimi, the first deputy governor of the Bank of Albania.
Euro adoption sparked some structural reforms
The adoption of the euro accelerated the pace of structural reforms in the product market, a research paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) posits.
De Grauwe labels Maastricht rules political tools
The Maastricht criteria for euro adoption are political instruments, not economically-vital measures, a respected economist has said.