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Trends in reserve management 2024: survey results
Insights on geopolitical risk, AI, asset diversification, risk management and ESG adoption
Paul Tucker calls for collateral prepositioning
Central banks need to know what collateral banks have in advance, former BoE deputy says
US faces real estate risks, Fed report warns
Banks face funding stresses while uncertainty over policy is a risk, Federal Reserve says
SNB raises bank reserve requirements
Calculation formula changed as central bank looks to save on interest payments
Supervisors grapple with the smaller bank dilemma
How are the guardians of stability moving to address risks linked to smaller banks in the aftermath of SVB’s collapse?
Retail CBDC would extend central bank balance sheets – ECB paper
Frequent fine-tuning of monetary policy operations could become the norm
Banks’ AI models are flawed – Basel Committee chair
Pablo Hernández de Cos says risk of AI model misspecification is “incredibly high”
Vietnam’s central bank lends $24 billion to troubled bank
State Bank of Vietnam offering liquidity lifeline to lender mired in financial scandal, Reuters reports
Switzerland proposes new rules to close Sib oversight gap
Public backstop to become permanent, SNB to provide more liquidity
Australian SMEs face financing drought, RBA official says
Traditional banks are averse to lending to innovative small firms, assistant governor says
IMF officials warn cyber risks are growing
Systemic and third-party cyber risks pose threats to central banks and firms
A new climate of change
Central banks are warming up to address climate risks just as US interest cools
Nigerian central bank imposes capital levels on lenders
Move comes after MPC calls for renewed efforts to recapitalise banks
BoE plans upgrades to data collection process
Overhaul includes work on validation, communications with firms and common data standards
‘No frowning’ on banks for discount window borrowing – Fed official
More banks have completed paperwork to access Fed lending facility than a year ago
Supervisory resources ‘more stretched’ in major finance centres
Calls for better banking supervision need to be matched with sufficient resources, FSI study says
When competitors become partners: paradoxes of ‘open banking’
Manoj Singh says the rise of open banking may sit uneasily with the complexity of platform banking
EU watchdogs to launch prop trader capital review in April
Prop traders say bank-style IFR rules are driving them out, but doubt EBA will suggest changes
ECB unveils new monetary policy framework
Move will see central bank make cheaper loans to eurozone lenders as it shrinks its balance sheet
Basel Committee prepares crackdown on bank ‘window dressing’
Study says lenders have obscured their true systemic importance at reporting dates
Thailand forges ahead with virtual banking
BoT to accept applications to open virtual banks from March 20