Central Banks

Fed floats bond issuance

The Federal Reserve is considering issuing its own bonds as a means to absorb the liquidity with which it has flooded markets as well as for fundraising purposes.

Fed's Kroszner on restoring confidence in MBS

Comprehensive and standardised loan-level data covering the entire pool of loans backing mortgage-backed securities (MBS) was needed so that the underlying credit quality could be analysed more easily, said Randall Kroszner, the governor of the Federal…

Bank Indonesia's Dutch arm bankrupt

Boediono, the governor of Bank Indonesia, has acknowledged that Indover, a unit of Indonesia's central bank based in the Netherlands, is heading for bankruptcy after a local court approved an application for receivership.

What's behind the fear of intervention?

Central banks' unwillingness to defend their currencies' value through foreign-exchange intervention despite abundant dollar reserves highlights a fear of intervening. Such a fear should lead central banks to review why they hold reserves, says Ousmene…

Lessons of Northern Rock

A paper from the Bank of Finland analyses the failure to stop the run on Northern Rock and considers what should be done to help prevent the recurrence of such episodes in the future.

Co-movements highlight policy stance

Low-frequency co-movements between inflation and money growth, and short-term interest rates and money growth shed light on a central bank's monetary policy stance, states a paper from the Bank of England.

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