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Italy’s Draghi favours “enforcement” over European Fund
Bank of Italy governor Mario Draghi says a new pact should be drawn up to enforce fiscal discipline, rather than building a continental version of the IMF
Bolaños will return to head Costa Rican central bank
Former central bank president Rodrigo Bolaños will take over at the helm again, after current chief Francisco de Paula Gutiérrez Gutiérrez announces plan to leave in June
Fischer accepts second term at Bank of Israel
Bank of Israel governor agrees to stay on for further five years after new central bank law passes in the Knesset calling for Monetary Policy Committee
New BoK head sparks independence fears
Surprise choice of OECD representative Kim Choong-soo seen as way for government to exert control over central bank
Yellen to replace Kohn as Fed vice chair?
Obama administration likely to pick arch dove to replace Kohn
Brazil’s Meirelles faces renewed tax fraud allegations
Brazilian central bank chief Henrique Meirelles could be investigated for the second time on tax crimes after attorney-general’s office asks Supreme Court for a probe, Meirelles unfazed
We know better now: Canada’s Carney
Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney reviews lessons learnt as the central bank celebrates its 75th anniversary
Argentine governor clings on to job as politicians splinter
Argentine Senate postpones vote on rejecting new governor Mercedes Marcó del Pont to next Wednesday after opposition factions disagree
Stelmakh to remain Ukraine chief for now
National Bank of Ukraine governor Volodymyr Stelmakh will remain in office for the time being having overstayed term limit by three months, according to new prime minister
Fischer offered second term: reports
Local media says premier Netanyahu has asked Bank of Israel governor Stanley Fischer to stay on
Canada names Longworth’s successor, deputy Duguay to retire
Bank of Canada appoints special adviser Jean Boivin as deputy governor to fill vacancy created by David Longworth’s retirement, Pierre Duguay also to leave the central bank
SEC chief economist quits for private sector
Securities and Exchange Commission head economist James Overdahl will start as deputy head of a Washington consultancy at the end of March
ECB names new statistics head
European Central Bank says Aurel Schubert of the Austrian central bank will be the new chief of its statistics directorate
Noyer to chair BIS board
Banque de France governor succeeds Guillermo Ortiz as chairman of Bank for International Settlements’ board
Lawmakers clash over Fed role in consumer protection
Senior Democrats infuriated over possible revision to regulatory reform bill that would keep consumer protection under the Fed, against original promise
Philadelphia Fed appoints new VPs
Central bank shifts roles after senior vice president Richard Lang announces decision to step down
Kohn to leave Fed in June
Federal Reserve’s Don Kohn to depart once his term as vice chairman ends
Last survivor of Bretton Woods dies
IMF managing director calls Jacques Polak an “iconic figure”
Macklem named Canadian senior deputy
Tiff Macklem to move back to central bank to take on role vacated by Paul Jenkins
Shogo Ishii to head IMF’s Asia office
Current head Akira Ariyoshi to take up academic post in Hitotsubashi University
Argentine court blocks debt repayment fund
Appeals court thwarts Argentine president Cristina Fernández’s decree by upholding injunction against the forced transfer of central bank reserves to bondholder repayment fund
FT Fed watcher to head NY Fed communications
Financial Times’s Krishna Guha to succeed Calvin Mitchell as executive vice president for communications
South Africa’s Marcus strikes back at “misleading distortions”
South African Reserve Bank governor Gill Marcus rebuffs report that she had branded calls for nationalising the central bank “nuts”
PBoC deputy named IMF special adviser
Zhu Min to join the International Monetary Fund in late spring