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ECB paper finds the Fed ‘well-served’ by its stress index
Researchers from ECB and Fed examine whether the economy behaves differently during periods of high stress, and the implications this has for policy-makers' models
IMF calls on Nordics to keep housing markets in check
Article IV reports warn Norges Bank will eventually have to normalise policy rate above inflation target and call for Swedish macro-pru measures targeted at households
Sri Lankan central bank names four assistant governors
The appointees include the head of the central banks’ secretariat and the directors of the central bank’s international operations and centre for banking studies
China’s cooling property market ‘a challenge’ to growth objectives
RBA governor Glenn Stevens sees property market as a challenge to Chinese authorities’ growth objectives; Dallas Fed economists concerned about impact on shadow banking sector
Cœuré calls for greater integration in retail banking and capital markets
The financial crisis ‘undermined this process’ and pushed retail banking services within national borders, says executive board member of the ECB
Maltese banks see increase in non-performing loans
The domestic banks in Malta had to increase their provisioning levels further to respond to the credit risk, notes central bank
Brazil registers primary deficit for third consecutive month
Public sector primary deficit reaches 4.7 billion real ($2.10 billion) in July, making it more difficult to achieve annual fiscal target, notes central bank
CPSS renamed the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures
Renamed body, the CPMI, handed an updated mandate to reflect ‘actual activites’; will press on with core tasks, says chair Benoît Coeuré
Counter-cyclical liquidity hoarding could ‘strongly amplify' business cycles, according to ECB paper
Paper develops a ‘new balance sheet channel of shock transmission' that works through the composition of banks' asset portfolios
HKMA executive director joins IMF's monetary and capital markets department
Dong He, HKMA head of research, new second-in-command at IMF division in charge of monitoring central banks and preparing Fund's Global financial stability report
Global financial system's future hinges on China's willingness to accept emerging India
India's emergence - and China's willingness to tolerate it - will be ‘test of survival' for the global financial system in the coming years, argues Deutsche Bank report
Fin paper examines SME lending in post-transition economies
Researchers find that SMEs perform better in countries with a large number of cooperative banks, rather than those dominated by banks
EMs evaluate macro-prudential tools in BIS publication
Central bankers across Asia and Europe assess their countries’ efforts to mitigate spillovers from monetary policy in advanced economies in a major BIS publication
Dealing with ‘insidious' crises a ‘difficult proposition' for policy-makers, argues IMF paper
Conventional balance-sheet crises, however, are more effectively detected and contained than before the financial crisis, paper adds
BoJ’s Ishida homes in on private consumption
Policy board member says expectations of future income growth will have to increase if private consumption is to continue driving Japan’s economic recovery
Malaysian central bank looks to set up financial ombudsman service
Scheme would ensure ‘effective and fair handling of complaints' against financial service providers, says bank, which adds service could be up and running in 2015
Bank of Israel urges government to keep its fiscal discipline
Central bank, which cut interest rates to lowest level ever on Monday, warns exceeding deficit target could hurt country's fiscal credibility
Norges Bank paper finds ‘booming' resource sector has ‘significant' productivity spillovers
Working paper also finds evidence of two-speed economies, with non-traded industries growing at a faster pace than traded
Dutch central bank sells claims on failed Icelandic lender Landsbanki
The Netherlands Bank recovers $2.2bn it paid out to Dutch depositors of Landsbanki in 2008 as it sells last claims on failed bank's estate to Deutsche Bank
Governors and deputies address labour market conundrums at Jackson Hole
Brazil's Tombini, Japan's Kuroda and BoE deputy Ben Broadbent offer their takes on ‘new natural' unemployment rates, weak productivity growth and central bank remedies
Bundesbank paper explores liquidity shock transmission
Claudia Buch and Linda Goldberg summarise the findings of empirical studies conducted across 11 countries to explore liquidity risk transmission
Reserve Bank of India to trial ‘plastic banknotes’
Annual report details plans to run a ‘field trial’ of plastic banknotes by 2015, in addition to several other initiatives aimed at improving the central bank’s cash management
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe sets up ‘bad bank'
'Bad bank' will assume a growing number of NPLs from troubled lenders; NPLs in Zimbabwe amounted to 18.5% of banks' assets in June, according to central bank
Jamaican governor hails resilience to inflation shocks
Bryan Winter says the country’s reform program has enabled inflation to remain low despite sharp depreciation in currency; reveals new design of monetary policy report