Governance
Parliament reads Singapore CB bill
The Parliament of Singapore conducted its first reading of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Bill on 27 August.
Ryback moves to Korean regulator
William Ryback, the former deputy chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, is to join the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), Korea's market regulator.
Canada appoints special adviser
Paul Masson will join the Bank of Canada as a special adviser for the year 2007-08 in September, the central bank announced on Wednesday 22 August.
RBNZ appoints new department head
Lindsay Jenkin will join the Reserve Bank of New Zealand as head of human resources.
UK regulator revamps enforcement division
The Financial Services Authority (FSA), the UK industry regulator, will offload a third of staff from its enforcement division as part of its shift from a rules to a principles-based regulatory framework.
Burundi appoints new governor
Gaspard Sindayigaya will replace the recently-arrested Isaac Bizimana as the new governor of the Central Bank of Burundi.
Greenspan to advise Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank, the German investment and retail bank, announced on Monday that it will retain Alan Greenspan, the former governor of the Federal Reserve, as a senior adviser.
Hong Kong has new deputy
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is set for a reshuffle after William Ryback, the deputy chief executive with responsibility for banking stability, said he would step down at the end of August.
Morgan Stanley lures NY Fed's Kos
Dino Kos, the former executive vice president of the market group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, has left the central bank to head Morgan Stanley's division for central banks and sovereign wealth funds.
Burundian central bank chief arrested
Isaac Bizimana, the governor of the Bank of Burundi, was arrested Saturday 4 August on suspicion of embezzlement. The alleged embezzlement involves payments made to Interpetrol, an oil company, between 1996 and 2002.
New president of Chicago Fed
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago today announced that Charles L. Evans will become the bank's ninth president and CEO as of September.
Gambian central bank governor quits
The governor of Gambia's central bank, Famara Jatta, has left the country to take up the less prestigious position of representative of the African Development Bank (ADB) in Sudan.
Front-runners to succeed Canada's Dodge
Who will succeed David Dodge when he retires as governor of the Bank of Canada in January 2008? The two favourites are the senior deputy governor, Paul Jenkins, and ex-central banker Mark Carney, now a senior associate deputy minister of finance, but…
Nigerian central banker becomes finance minister
The president of Nigeria, Umaru Yar'Adua, appointed Shamsuddeen Usman, a deputy governor at the country's central bank since 1999, as finance minister.
Tanzanian governor "will not resign"
The governor of the Bank of Tanzania, Daudi Ballali, called a special press conference at the end of last week in which he denounced mounting allegations against him as "malicious lies and fabrications" and said he had no intention of resigning.
Su heads Chinese central bank's Shanghai office
Su Ning, a deputy governor of the People's Bank of China is to be chief of its Shanghai office. Su succeeds Xiang Junbo, who has been appointed as the president of the Agricultural Bank of China.
Sants named as new FSA chief executive
Hector Sants has been appointed chief executive of Britain's Financial Services Authority (FSA). He will take up the post on 20 July 2007, succeeding John Tiner who steps down at the Annual Public Meeting on 19 July.
Lawmakers turn-up heat on Georgian governor
Speculation that the governor of the National Bank of Georgia, Roman Gotsiridze, may resign intensified after parliament passed a resolution calling for changes at the central bank.
Strauss-Kahn gets EU boost for top Fund job
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former French finance minister, looks set to become the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after receiving the support of the finance ministers of the European Union (EU). The current managing…
New French candidate for IMF emerges
A former finance minister of France, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has emerged as one of the early favourites to become the next head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The current managing director, Rodrigo de Rato, announced last month that he would…
New non-executive directors for Bank of England
Roger Carr and Susan Rice have been appointed as non-executive directors of the Bank of England, replacing Sir Graham Hall and Mary Francis.
French honour for Maltese central bank governor
Governor of the Central Bank of Malta, Michael Bonello, has been awarded the Officier de la Legion d'Honneur by the French government.
Pension overhaul at the Bank of England
The Bank of England has traditionally had a generous final salary pension scheme, but it is now reported that it intends to close the scheme and raise the retirement age of new staff from 60 to 65.
Deputy chief of Korean watchdog cleared
Kim Jung-Hoe, a deputy chief of South Korea's financial regulator, the Financial Supervisory Service, has been cleared by a court of receiving bribes from a businessman.