Articles by Central Banking Newsdesk
Iceland cuts overnight rate, looks ahead to removing capital controls
Icelandic Monetary Policy Committee votes to cut only overnight lending rate, cites “encouraging signs”
Monetary policy must inspire confidence to counter debt fears
Kate Barker, a member of the Monetary Policy Committee, argues central bank must be sensitive to changes in attitudes towards debt and investment
Subprimes didn’t perform worse than prime loans: Philadelphia Fed
Philadelphia Fed’s loans data analysis yields unexpected results
Central banks to extend dollar swaps past October
Bank of Japan, European Central Bank, Bank of England and Swiss National Bank provide schedule for dollar operations into 2010
Central banks victims of their own inflation-fighting success
European Central Bank tests whether memories of high inflation affect public preferences about the importance attached to price stability
RBA – Financial Stability Review September
Sentiment among Australian households and businesses has improved considerably says the Reserve Bank of Australia in its latest Financial Stability Review
Bank to hold seminar to clarify QE
Bank of England invites economists and the press next week to mark six months since the start of bond purchases, denies “crisis” meeting
Denmark makes third cut in six weeks
National Bank of Denmark shaves a tenth of a percentage point of key rate
Spain's Vinals to succeed Caruana at IMF
Jose Vinals, is the new director of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) monetary and capital markets department, replacing Jaime Caruana, now general manager of the Bank for International Settlements.
Indonesia deputy governor passes away
Budi Rochadi, the Indonesian central bank’s deputy governor in charge of the banking payment system, passes away in New York
More transparency may harm bond markets
More transparency in European bond markets may mean less liquidity according to a recent report
How the euro gives Britain a free ride
New research suggests Britain and other European countries that have not adopted the euro have nevertheless benefited from it nearly as much as insiders, without giving up policy autonomy
Perspectives on deflation
In this issue we present a variety of views on the threat of deflation. Here we offer a summary and our own conclusion.
Interview: Martin Feldstein
In conversation, Professor Feldstein discusses his worries for the European Central Bank's future, who is to blame for the bubble, the US payments deficit and the international monetary system.
Banking regulator and c bank could merge-Venezuela
VENEZUELA - The administration of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez might eliminate bank regulatory agency Sudeban and transfer its powers to the central bank, local daily El Nacional reported.