Articles by Central Banking Newsdesk
Future rate disclosure works
Bank of Italy looks at the impact of disclosing future rate movements as part of monetary policy
Bank economist to head Nomura’s European team
Peter Westaway leaves the Bank of England, joins investment bank as chief economist for Europe
Australia hikes rates in surprise move
Reserve Bank of Australia joins Bank of Israel in tightening borrowing costs on signs recovery in full flow
Geithner wades into World Bank funding debate
Tim Geithner says governments must support World Bank’s bid for more capital after officials question governance model
G30 calls for smaller IMF board, surveillance revamp
Group of Thirty wants four European members off International Monetary Fund board, says all countries must agree to surveillance reports
DSK picks ex-Japanese politician to succeed Kato
International Monetary Fund managing director proposes Naoyuki Shinohara as next deputy managing director
Former Bank official to advise Treasury on stability
Alistair Clark to advise Whitehall on financial stability
FDIC’s Bair offers too big to fail answer
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chair says current wind-down mechanism should be extended to all banks
World Bank – Annual Report 2009
World Bank outlines post-crisis support measures
Watch out for inflows: India’s Subbarao
Reserve Bank of India’s Duvvuri Subbarao says emerging markets should think about how to respond to post-crisis hot money inflows
Culture matters for regulation
Bank of Italy says trust has impact on preferences for regulation
Raise liquidity rule for property funds – Buba
Analysis of German real-estate funds during the crisis shows that regulators should impose a higher liquidity ratio, a new paper from the Deutsche Bundesbank argues
FSA’s tough liquidity requirements spook bankers
The Financial Services Authority’s tightened liquidity rules could impede recovery, says trade group
Accounting standards and capital regulation for securitisation
Bank for International Settlements looks at how regulators could alter the securitisation chain and its influence on originators’ incentives
Traders’ inventories affect market liquidity
Philadelphia Federal Reserve investigates how holdings of mortgages will affect traders’ propensity to buy and sell further
Banks and their profits will shrink: Buba’s Weber
Bundesbank president says industry will benefit from post-crisis blood-letting
World Bank unit launches $5 billion bad-debt fund
Debt and Asset Recovery Program (DARP) will debt and asset recovery in both middle income countries and in smaller, poorer developing countries
Czechs don’t need to import monetary policy – Tuma
Czech National Bank’s Zdenek Tuma says euro adoption is a purely political not economic decision
How to drive debt long-termism in emerging markets
World Bank’s studies the extent of emerging-markets’ domestic demand for long-term debt instruments
Much more to be achieved in regulation: Trichet
ECB President outlines the priorities for legislators
BoJ says institutions must manage risk better
BoJ’s September Financial System Report outlines the four key challenges faced by Japanese financial institutions
Bernanke calls for extended supervisory reach
Ben Bernanke’s five-point plan for regulatory reform includes call to share accountability for systemic risk with other regulators
Minneapolis Fed names macroeconomist as president
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis appoints academic Narayana Kocherlakota as its new president
UK Households face lending constraints – survey
The Bank of England’s quarterly survey shows lending to households has declined, but credit is increasingly available to the corporates