Central Banks

Fed's Bullard sounds knell on rate moves

With the effective federal funds rate trailing the Fed's target by more than 60 basis points and interbank spreads for longer-term loans remaining well above pre-crisis levels, one of the regional Federal Reserve presidents has acknowledged further rate…

Price plunge won't herald deflation: ECB's Mersch

Though a fall in the price index at some point in 2009 is likely, such a slump should not be seen as a harbinger of deflation, Yves Mersch, the governor of the Central Bank of Luxembourg and a member of the European Central Bank's (ECB) Governing Council…

Caruana gets top job at BIS

Jaime Caruana, the director of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) monetary and capital markets department, will succeed Malcolm Knight as general manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).

SNB's Heller to head Basel payments committee

Daniel Heller, the head of the Swiss National Bank's financial stability and oversight section, will take over from Denis Beau, a deputy director general of Banque de France's economics and international relations department, as head of the secretariat…

INTERVIEW: Raghuram Rajan

Raghuram Rajan, a professor at the University of Chicago and a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), talks to CentralBankNews.com about the future role of the Fund.

Bank could have cut by 200bp

Members of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, who shocked markets earlier this month when they slashed rates by 150 basis points, had considered an even bigger cut.

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