Bank of England (BoE)
Bank of England awards contracts for new banknotes
Award made for joint provision of substrate for £50 note as BoE opts for same polymer in all notes
Regulations lower rates and cause imbalances – BoE paper
Research into repo market highlights some unintended consequences of post-crisis regulations
BoE’s Broadbent receives renewed term
Deputy to serve further five years; new appointments made to central bank’s oversight body
BoE makes climate risk a hot topic for banks
Financial institutions must entrust oversight of climate risk to named individual under senior managers regime
BoE’s Ramsden highlights unusual patterns of investment and hiring
Weak investment in capital could exacerbate UK’s productivity woes, deputy says
Why two degrees matters to central banks
Ulrich Volz explores why strong leadership is required from central banks and supervisors to ensure the financial sector will be in a position to weather climate risks.
BoE may impose capital floors on UK firms – PRA chief
Sam Woods says some leveraged loans are based on “heroic” risk assumptions
IMF paper urges central banks to seek wider audience
Central banks could do more to broaden their message, senior official says; financial stability communications still challenging
BoE’s Broadbent: constant Brexit delays are hurting investment
Deputy governor blames “repeated series of cliff edges” for poor UK investment
Cyber crime is ‘present danger’ for financial system – BoE deputy
Sam Woods emphasises need for more widespread stress-testing of cyber security
BoE seeks to make financial stability more transparent – Brazier
Policy-makers look to improve communications and design tests more systematically
BoE’s Woods sees value in ditching EU-style rulemaking
Detailed legislation behind banking regulations may be unnecessarily restrictive for UK, says PRA chief; post-Brexit harmonisation with Europe could still cause problems
Don Kohn offers advice on macro-pru under uncertainty
BoE looks at wide range of indicators but could still do more, FPC member says
Willingness is not enough to achieve equality – BoE’s Place
COO says she has changed her views on what needs to be done to achieve gender equality
BoE to scrutinise banks’ op risk tolerance limits
Watchdog says banks must prove they can stick to tolerance limits; cyber stress test planned
HSBC hires BoE’s cyber risk chief
Watchdog’s CISO will serve as UK bank’s first head of resilience risk
BoE to expand scheme that sends economists to emerging markets
UK government partners with BoE to provide economic expertise to emerging markets
Joint project unveils dataset stretching back to 1086
BoE and statistics agencies publish vast collection of historical data
Education, education, education: designing a master’s in global central banking
The BoE’s Paul Fisher says there is a growing need for all-round central banking education
Market power is a ‘puzzle’, BoE team says
Micro and macro evidence do not seem to match up, the authors say
Haldane outlines vision of locally-modelled economies
BoE chief economist backs Raghuram Rajan’s idea of a revival of communities
The BoE’s education outreach programme
The Bank of England launched econoME last year to bring a practical understanding of economics to the classroom. Its aim is to make policy-making more effective in the future. It plans to extend its offering to schools by designing materials for younger…
BoE says Brexit is creating economy of two halves
Policy-makers strike hawkish note, but Carney says households and businesses are divided
‘A huge job in anybody’s terms’ – BoE’s court sets criteria for new governor
Governor must be able to promote the UK post-Brexit, while issue of diversity looms large