Articles by Central Banking Newsdesk
Ex-Fed’s Stern joins Finra board
Former president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve to become Financial Industry Regulatory Authority board member
Turkish easing will inject $2 billion
Central Bank of Turkey says loosening of reserve ratio will free up $2.26 billion in permanent liquidity
Trichet calls for fundamental financial-system change
European Central Bank president says industry needs to alter greatly in wake of crisis, says structural reforms necessary
Italy’s Visco on cross-border cooperation
In the wake of the global crisis, Bank of Italy’s Ignazio Visco examines barriers to cross-border collaboration between officials
Macroeconomic volatility and terms of trade shocks
Reserve Bank of Australia research explores the effect of terms of trade volatility on macroeconomic volatility
Banking: a mechanism design approach
Philadelphia Federal Reserve research uses mechanism design to study banking
RBA’s Stevens: downside risks have disappeared
Reserve Bank of Australia’s Glenn Stevens hints at further rate hikes in coming months
Nigeria’s woe signals decoupling not in sight
International Monetary Fund finds developing and emerging markets did not decouple from the United States enough to grow despite significant recession in the world’s largest economy
FOMC sees slack subduing inflation
Federal Open Market Committee says output gap will persist
Credit-card discrimination hard to prove
Federal Reserve Board finds no evidence of credit-card companies discriminating against minorities.
Basel Committee: trading-book capital requirements to soar
Basel Committee says new trading-book rules will result in much higher capital requirements
Bank officials at odds over QE’s impact
Confidence of Bank of England’s executive director for markets appears to conflict with deputy governor’s ambivalence
Romanian central banker nominated as premier
Romania’s president picks governor’s adviser for prime minister
Turkey cuts, signals lower rates to come
Central Bank of Turkey chops half a point of benchmark rates
Public banks good for growth
Central Bank of Cyprus finds that government ownership of banks has been associated with better long-run growth performance
Turkey’s Yilmaz: Islamic finance a force for stability
Central Bank of Turkey’s Durmus Yilmaz says Islamic finance is not boom-bust driven
New Zealand begins exit from extraordinary measures
Reserve Bank of New Zealand cancels two facilities and amends others as financial-market stress eases
Swaps a success: SNB economists
Swiss National Bank researchers say swap agreements were highly effective low-cost solution to currency mismatches
Finland’s Liikanen pushes for Fund reform
Bank of Finaland’s Erkki Liikanen says quota reform only starting point for change at the International Monetary Fund
External balances in low-income countries
International Monetary Fund research offers empirical analysis of balances in low income countries
Buba upbraids board member after racist remarks
Thilo Sarrazin, a member of the board of the German central bank, has remit reduced after comments on Berlin’s Turkish and Arab communities
No way to tell if QE’s worked: BoE’s Bean
MPC will have to tighten gradually to avoid undershooting inflation target
Ireland’s Honohan: restore, not reinvent
Governor uses first speech to hark back to 2000 as benchmark for Irish economy
Zim finance minister promises new central bank law
New reform bill will bring to a close quasi-fiscal activities when it is passed, says Tendai Biti