Financial market infrastructure
Ethiopia’s liberalisation paves way for banking consolidation
Reforms will give central bank power to supervise foreign lenders as country lifts barriers to investment
Capital markets union faces ‘death by a thousand cuts’ – Lagarde
ECB president tears into European leaders’ inaction over innovation and wealth creation
The GFXC chair on the next steps for the FX global code
Global FX Committee chair Gerardo García speaks with Christopher Jeffery about updating FX best practice, improving buy-side engagement and revising settlement risk estimates in the BIS’s triennial survey
BNM eases rules on ringgit bond issuances
Change makes it easier for foreign institutions to issue debt denominated in Malaysian currency
Georgia and Namibia sign MoUs with MAS’s new fintech network
Singapore’s GFTN agrees to provide advisory services to emerging economies’ central banks
AI combines age-old issues with new opportunities, say panel
Governors from Rwanda, South Africa, and Sweden weigh in on how AI will change central banking
HKMA sets up company to run bond settlement system
Business will run the Central Moneymarkets Unit under new governance structure
New Zealand looks into expanding RTGS access to smaller firms
Central bank seeks to strike balance between opening access and mitigating risks from non-banks
MAS boosts support for training financial leaders
Singapore’s central bank to provide more funding to upskill promising finance professionals
Bank of Thailand launches data-sharing initiative
Central bank and regulators plan to make consent-based data-sharing mechanism operational in 2026
Bank Indonesia to launch central clearing house
Central bank says aim of CCP is to deepen country’s financial markets and mitigate systemic risks
Supervisors use generative AI to tame ‘chaotic’ data
Officials merge credit databases with unstructured reports to sharpen bank oversight, explains Banco de España ex-deputy
Hong Kong and Macao authorities link bond settlement systems
Direct connection could allow investors to trade wider variety of financial products
Marshall Islands pushes ahead with plan for monetary authority
Minister says new institution is needed to deal with financial system’s increasing vulnerability
Russia’s tangled web of sanctions evasion
Central bank has been at heart of efforts to ensure continued payments from oil sales
World Bank approves credit financing for Pacific islands
Local banks could use funds to secure correspondent banking relationships in event of emergency
US Bancorp ever more reliant on LCR relief
HQLAs would only cover 91.4% of bank’s net cash outflows without Fed’s cap
Ukraine’s central bank cracks down on ‘money mules’
NBU says limits on transactions over next six months will give breathing space to state bodies
South Korean regulators push for benchmark rate reform
Authorities encourage wider adoption of repo-based RFR for financial transactions
India’s central bank to launch digital lending platform
New interface will enable frictionless credit, RBI governor claims
Lenders not ready for resolutions – EBA research
Authority finds commercial banks still unprepared for bail-in tool