Exchange rate
Iran’s central bank tries to unfreeze foreign assets
Governor seeks to reduce effects of US sanctions, but expert says nuclear talks will be key
Tajikistan central bank announces rate hike
Currency devaluation in 2020 has added to inflationary pressure
Georgia central bank orders 100bp rate increase
Worsening inflation pushes central bank to raise policy rate to 9.5%
BIS to operate sterling liquidity facility backed by BoE
Move echoes 20th century arrangements when BIS acted as intermediary in swaps network
Kyrgyz central bank hikes policy rate by 100 basis points
Rising commodity prices and currency worries bring second hike this year
IMF praises Chile’s Covid-19 response
Fund warns against new withdrawals from pension system
Bank of Mexico has no dividend for government
Mexican president had asked for advance from central bank last year
Argentine court drops charges against governor
Former governor Alejandro Vanoli and other officials cleared in dollar futures scandal
Taiwan dollar weakens over fears of US action
US Treasury expected to label Asian ally a currency manipulator on next exchange rate report
Bank of Israel’s reserves reach new record high
Reserves portfolio reaches $185.7 billion, driven by central bank’s FX interventions
‘Giant of the field’ Robert Mundell dies
The Nobel laureate influenced a generation of economists via the Mundell-Fleming model
A rebuttal of Philip Turner’s criticism of the BIS ‘house view’
Robert Pringle critiques the key findings raised in Philip Turner’s occasional paper, ‘The new monetary policy revolution: advice and dissent’
Economics in central banking: ‘Patterns in invoicing currency in global trade’, Emine Boz, Camila Casas, Georgios Georgiadis, Gita Gopinath, Helena Le Mezo, Arnaud Mehl and Tra Nguyen
An extensive data-gathering exercise allowed the authors to shed new light on critical aspects of policy-making in a globalised world, while clearing a path for other researchers to follow
Central Bank of Barbados’s first governor dies
Blackman helped to introduce dollar peg and pioneered transparency
Lifetime achievement: Charles Goodhart
The LSE and BoE veteran economist has his own ‘law’, and played a key role in the establishment of monetary policy in the UK, Hong Kong’s peg and the ‘New Zealand model’, which influenced a generation of central bankers
Transparency: National Bank of Georgia
Georgia’s central bank has improved communications on monetary policy, financial stability and consumer protection
HKMA chief plays down threat to currency peg
Eddie Yue tells journalists forthcoming IPOs should alleviate pressure
Belize central bank law to allow bigger loans to state
Amendments come amid debt crisis as IMF warns country to defend currency peg
National Bank of Denmark simplifies monetary framework
Central bank aims to reduce excess liquidity effect on money market rates
Brazil ramps up FX interventions to defend real
Governor Campos Neto says fall “is not justified by fundamentals”
Corporate Services Benchmarks 2021 report – trends in financial reporting and administration
Insights on staffing and salaries, technological automation, data security, rule compliance, gender equality and green office spaces in accounting, audit, HR and administration
Sudanese central bank changes currency regime
Central bank cuts official exchange rate sharply after years of major over-valuation
Bank of Zambia caught between surging inflation and debt crisis
Central bank hikes policy rate as kwacha falls and fiscal spending overshoots targets
Riksbank revises up growth and inflation forecasts for 2021
Swedish central bank maintains stimulus; inflation not expected to approach target until 2023