Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
People: April to June 2023
A round-up of central bankers in the news and on the move during the past three months
Central banks need short-run climate models – BdF governor
Governments may push central banks into ineffective climate action, Sarb governor warns
Combatting the ever-changing cyber threats in banking
Seemanta Patnaik, co-founder and chief technology officer at SecurEyes, discusses the continually evolving challenges and threats, and possible solutions to remain resilient to cyber attacks in today’s central banking environment.
Major central banks set out CBDC policy debates
BIS and central banks discuss major policy issues that still need to be solved
Central Bank of Chile sets first counter-cyclical buffer
BCC also warns government could face financing problems
BIS’s Restoy warns of limits to deposit insurance reform
Better use of supervision could solve many issues without deposit insurance reform, official says
Central banks should abandon floor systems – BIS’s Borio
Abundant reserves are causing distortions and could hamper policy-making, economist says
‘Robust’ wage growth consistent with disinflation – BIS paper
But firms need to avoid increasing their profit margins, authors find
Dollar’s commodities link is creating risks, BIS paper warns
Simultaneous rises in dollar and commodities prices could harm stability, researchers say
BIS offers guidance on offline CBDC design
Half of central banks say offline payments are “vital” to CBDC design
Supervisors should take action on interest rate risk – BIS paper
Core regulation alone will not neutralise all current risks, Financial Stability Institute says
Non-banks key to ‘absorbing’ sovereign debt – BIS paper
New database of key players in sovereign debt markets reveals EME reliance on non-banks
Another financial crisis hiding in plain sight
Steve Kamin analyses how the risks that sank SVB were plain enough to those who looked for them
People: BIS appoints deputy head of MED
Riksbank to shrink board; De La Rue chair resigns; Hungary appoints MPC members
EMEs now coping better with financial market stress – BIS paper
Authorities have tackled old vulnerabilities, but trouble is springing up elsewhere
BoE and BIS test synchronised DLT settlement
Prototype leaves open legality of digitised asset transfer
Carstens calls for return to ‘region of stability’
Short-term thinking has led to increasingly painful trade-offs for policy, BIS chief says
BIS paper warns of worsening fiscal and monetary trade-offs
Many governments have sought to shield consumers from price rises, at a high budgetary cost
Taliban appoints new governor to Afghan central bank
Hidayatullah Badri was acting finance minister and previously ran Taliban’s finances
Towards legal CBDCs
Officials at the Bank of Thailand and Bank of Jamaica on how their CBDC design choices interact with the law
BIS to trial Asian instant payments link
Project Nexus aims to create standardised cross-border link for different countries’ systems
BIS paper lays out ‘two-regime’ model of inflation
Framework could help central banks recognise and respond to bouts of higher inflation
Pandemic purchases averted ‘destabilising loop’, BIS finds
Central banks tended to use different tactics in advanced and emerging economies, report says
SNB’s Maechler to take deputy role at BIS
Senior Swiss official will replace Luis Awazu Pereira da Silva as deputy general manager