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Bank of Israel saga comes full circle with Flug nomination
Prime minister relents and nominates Stanley Fischer’s deputy as the next central bank governor; Karnit Flug’s first act is to appoint research head Nathan Sussman to the monetary committee
Madagascan deputy steps up to top job
Vonimanitra Razafimbelo appointed acting governor, just over a month after her predecessor Guy Ratovondrahona died; appointment comes a week ahead of presidential elections
ECB seeks head of new human resources office
Recruitment and operations section will be responsible for recruitment and ECB employees' contracts, salaries, and benefits; overhaul comes as ECB gears up for SSM implementation
New BoE deputy says European banking union would benefit the UK
Jon Cunliffe says ECB has enough tricks up its sleeve to address any further shocks in the eurozone; believes the mutualisation of risk may prove a bridge too far for European banking union
BoE and IMF unveil changes in finance and fiscal departments
Bank of England appoints finance director and starts hunt for court of directors chair; IMF director of fiscal affairs stands down; Bank of Namibia assistant governor quits; and more
Janet Yellen set for nomination as Fed chair
US President Barack Obama expected to nominate Janet Yellen as Ben Bernanke’s successor; would be first female appointment to top job
ECB's counsellor to the president crosses lines to Axa
Christian Thimann moves from central bank to financial services giant; takes on responsibilities as group head of strategy and public affairs
Kazakh governor replaced for 'family reasons'
Long-serving central bank governor Grigory Marchenko steps down in favour of deputy prime minister Kairat Kelimbetov
Bank of Spain director general resigns
José María Roldán Alegre resigns after 12 years at the head of the Regulation and Financial Stability department; replaced by Julio Durán Hernández, currently director of the governor's office
ECB fires starting gun on SSM chair selection
New chair will head the single supervisory mechanism and oversee the eurozone's biggest banks from next year; appointment to be made jointly by the ECB and the European Parliament
IMF calls for co-operation as Cypriot president targets central bank governor
Cyprus president says he may appeal to the courts to remove Panicos Demetriades from the Central Bank of Cyprus; IMF insists authorities must work together to protect financial stability
Somalia appoints first female governor to scandal-hit central bank
Central Bank of Somalia to be led by female governor for first time; predecessor resigned after UN report placed central bank at the heart of a 'systematic misappropriation' of public funds
BoE executive director departs for private sector
Paul Sharma quits Prudential Regulation Authority after 20 years as a regulator, to move to consultancy Alvarez & Marsal; marks second high-level departure from PRA in the past week
Carney new vice-chair of ESRB as King joins Fischer at CFR
Mark Carney takes over from Mervyn King as deputy to European Systemic Risk Board chairman Mario Draghi; King joins US think-tank Council on Foreign Relations as a distinguished fellow
ECB seeks women to fill four senior economics vacancies
Re-organisation in the ECB's directorate general for economics creates four vacancies for head of division; new targets means bank will want to hire women to the male-dominated department
Indonesia parliament approves central bank deputy appointment
Indonesian House of Representatives picks current head of bank deposit guarantee scheme to fill the long-vacant position of senior deputy governor at Bank Indonesia
Summers drops out of race for Fed chair
Larry Summers writes to Barack Obama to withdraw his name from consideration as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, citing likely 'acrimonious' confirmation hearings
People: Stanley Fischer joins US think-tank; Hungarian central bank official moves to EIB
Fischer takes post at US think-tank after leaving the Bank of Israel; László Baranyay joins the European Investment Bank; sovereign wealth fund managers on the move
Central Bank of Madagascar governor dies
Guy Ratovondrahona suffered a stroke while travelling to work, leaving the two most senior positions at the central bank vacant
Borio to take over from Cecchetti at BIS; ECB's Cœuré appointed CPSS chair
Claudio Borio promoted from deputy to head up the monetary and economic department in Basel; Benoît Cœuré, the ECB's head of payments infrastructure, to take over from Paul Tucker at CPSS
Summers trails Yellen and Fischer in Central Banking Fed poll
Readers of CentralBanking.com make Janet Yellen first choice to succeed Ben Bernanke as Fed chair - with Stanley Fischer a strong second; Larry Summers joint third with Christina Romer
People: Bank of Finland appoints head of monetary policy; Cleveland branch gets new vice-president
Tuomas Välimäki is Bank of Finland's new head of monetary policy and research; Guhan Venkatu takes over from Robert Schaub as president of Cleveland Fed's Pittsburgh branch; and more
Iran central bank appoints new governor
New Iranian president names commercial bank veteran to take over at the top of the central bank; priority will be taming inflation now running at around 40% a year
Adia CFO bagged by Texas real estate company
Jim Hime leaves the Abu Dhabi SWF for USAA Real Estate on September 1 after serving three years as chief financial officer of its real estate and infrastructure department