Central Bank of Colombia (Banrep)
Brazil fails to realise Latam financial stability grouping
South American regional initiative to co-operate on financial stability appears to have gone nowhere since it was announced by Brazil in March this year
Central bank support for CCPs and TRs
The wider use of central counterparties and trade repositories may pose challenges for central banks. Carlos León, Clara Machado and Ricardo Mariño explain the tactics central banks are adopting.
Colombian interbank oligopoly requires new monetary policy transmission model
The domination of Colombia's interbank market by a few large players means traditional models cannot predict how monetary policy, and financial crises, will be transmitted
Colombian paper finds wholesale funding can increase financial sector fragility
Monitoring credit funding sources could provide an additional tool to warn against banking disruptions, paper shows
Reserve managers stress importance of portfolio transparency
Public report offering detailed disclosure of investment decisions results in reserve managers having 'little to fear', says the Central Bank of Colombia's Marco Ruiz
Forward guidance ‘escape clause' increases effectiveness, says Colombian paper
Incorporating a threshold into forward guidance means central banks can change course when economic conditions dictate - meaning it is welfare-improving
Colombia sees benefit of weaker currency as inflation stays at record lows
Minutes say monetary policy framework is functioning well as lower levels of capital flight allow central bank to retain some of South America's lowest interest rates
Colombian paper examines women in the workplace
Researchers say the large increase in the number of urban women participating in the workforce is predominantly a result of married women with low education levels getting jobs
Inclusion of 'spatial effects' help explain Colombian money market spreads, central bank paper argues
Traditional factors like 'size and leverage' insufficient to explain borrowing spreads, argues paper, which is 'first attempt' to model Colombian money market within a spatial econometrics framework
The winners of the inaugural Central Banking awards
Paul Volcker, Mario Draghi, People's Bank of China, Central Bank of Colombia, Sveriges Riksbank, Bank of Spain, BlackRock, Northern Trust, VocaLink and OpenLink win inaugural Central Banking awards
Reserve manager of the year: Central Bank of Colombia
The Central Bank of Colombia’s dynamic reserves management strategy and impressive performance amidst turmoil in the US dollar and emerging market currencies made it stand out from the crowd
BIS papers probe LatAm currency interventions
Working papers written by economists from each of five Latin American central banks and published by the BIS investigate the efficacy of various currency intervention strategies
Crisis altered ‘traditional factor' impact on EM capital flows, new paper finds
According to the authors, the crisis ‘brought very important changes in terms of degree, size and volatility of capital flows to emerging markets'
Colombian paper explains monetary policy transmission divergence across banks
Working paper says banks' size and capitalisation affects their sensitivity to monetary policy shocks and their ability to access alternative funding when core deposits in economy shrink
Colombian paper draws policy lessons from credit- and business-cycle links
Researchers find lagged response of growth to the credit cycle, making it challenging for policy-makers to target both financial and real variables with a single instrument
Colombian governor warns Latin America could be hit hard by end of US QE
José Darío Uribe says past instances of monetary policy tightening in the US have caused crises in Latin America, but argues the region is better prepared this time around
Colombian paper trumpets transparent forex intervention
Research says ‘pre-announced and transparent’ interventions had a greater impact on the Colombian exchange rate than more discretionary or ‘dirty’ purchases
Colombian paper flags danger from abnormal credit growth
Credit expansion does not always imply excessive risk-taking, but abnormal credit growth causes greater risk-taking and contributed to Colombia’s financial crisis in the late 1990s, paper finds
Colombian paper recommends using neural networks in yield curve forecasts
Neural networks, which process information in a similar manner to the human brain, are tested for their ability to improve yield curve forecasts in Latin America
People: ADB chief named BoJ front-runner; Bulgarian governor ‘cannot' run for PM
Haruhiko Kuroda widely expected to succeed governor Shirakawa next month; Bulgarian governor ineligible to lead interim government
Colombian paper finds flaws in inflation forecasting
Research by the Central Bank of Colombia says many central banks have scope to improve the accuracy of their inflation forecasts
New paper finds Colombia could be in the midst of a housing bubble
'New-fangled method' of detecting bubbles finds Colombian housing could be in a bubble right now, though findings may not be robust
LatAm countries play down talk of burgeoning currency war
Peruvian and Colombian central banks say dollar purchases are being made to build reserves and reduce volatility; Latin America faces wide range of currency challenges
Central Bank of Colombia faces presidential call to cut rates
Colombian central bank under pressure from lawmakers and bankers to lower interest rates as growth falters and inflation dips below target