Governance
Bank of Greece governor to reduce salary by a fifth
Greek governor George Provopoulos will cut his wage as a symbolic gesture against the country’s burgeoning debt problem
NY Fed communications head joins Thomson Reuters
New York Federal Reserve’s executive vice president for communications departs for information company
Bunning labels Bernanke “definition of moral hazard”
Kentucky senator says he will do everything in his power to stop Ben Bernanke winning a second term
Ex-MPC’s Buiter to head Citi economics team
Former Bank of England policymaker and frequent bank-basher Willem Buiter named as Citigroup’s chief economist
Eurosystem continues to shed staff
Number of eurozone central bankers has fallen by almost 10% over past five years
Irish regulator’s pay “rubs salt in the wounds”
Half of Ireland’s central bank to strike over pension levy; staff treated “obscenely” as executive’s pay jumps €150,000
Brazil's new director stands for independence
New head of monetary policy at the Central Bank of Brazil favours floating rates
KL passes new Bank Negara act
Legislation replaces act that’s more than half a century old
Fed toughens rules on directors' links with banks
Federal Reserve amends policy on regional directors’ holdings in banks following Friedman resignation
New RBI deputy appointed
Subir Gokarn begins term at the Reserve Bank of India where he will run the monetary policy, analysis, communications and statistics functions
Richmond Fed details presidential promotions
Regional Federal Reserve makes four promotions to vice presidential level or above
House committee backs Fed audit bill
House Financial Services Committee backs Ron Paul’s call for greater powers to audit the Federal Reserve; Barney Frank attempts block
IMF names new secretary, director of internal audit
International Monetary Fund’s Strauss-Kahn nominates Siddharth Tiwari for director of the secretary’s department of the Fund and Russell Kincaid for director of the office of internal audit
Japan government picks academic for BoJ board
Japan’s ruling Democratic party nominates Ryuzo Miyao to the central bank’s rate-setting committee
French regulator refused to help on AIG: Barofsky
Troubled Asset Relief Plan overseer says Commission Bancaire refused New York Federal Reserve’s request for help in reducing payments to counterparties of rescued insurer on legal grounds
India to get new deputy governor
Subir Gokarn to replace Rakesh Mohan as Reserve Bank of India deputy governor
Fed counters criticisms of AIG rescue
Federal Reserve defends itself against charges of mishandling American International Group’s bailout after damning report from Tarp overseer
Brazil rate-setter quits over controversy
Brazilian central bank’s monetary policy director resigns days after revealing rate-setters’ frustration at Lula
Canada’s Longworth set to leave
Bank of Canada’s David Longworth announces retirement two weeks after senior deputy Paul Jenkins
Lisbon considering Constancio nomination for ECB VP
Senior lawmaker says other eurozone members receptive to the idea of Portugal’s governor succeeding Papademos next year
Czechs set fixed time for policy announcements
The Czech National Bank will announce monetary policy decisions at 1 p.m. starting next February