Central Banking
Turkey holds key policy rate despite fall in inflation
Central bank says services and food inflation are sustaining broader price pressures
Long-term repo set for bigger role in BoE operations
Executive director Victoria Saporta outlines “major change in operating practice”
Bangladesh Bank website hacked by protestors
Other government websites also inaccessible amid crackdown on protests
Trinidad and Tobago cuts reserve requirement
Central bank plans move towards market-determined instruments of policy
Norges Bank’s market operations fixed after global outage
Liquidity operations resumed on Friday following hourly calls with third-party service provider
More than half of US organisations ‘vulnerable to IT failure’
New research underlines cyber risks to central banks following CrowdStrike IT outage
Perceptions of monetary policy shape inflation – Dallas Fed paper
Academics say Phillips curve not always applicable post-Covid
Acting US comptroller warns of threats to stability
Hsu defends preemption, federal oversight and increasing regulation for large banks
Higher-for-longer inflation remains risk – Bank of Finland chief
Political uncertainty in eurozone dominating discussions in Frankfurt, says Olli Rehn
PBoC cuts suite of key interest rates
Move follows weaker-than-expected Q2 growth and policy meeting by Communist party
State-supplied firms in Belgium are less profitable – study
Research by central bank shows financially troubled firms sustained by government orders
MAS steps up support for AI and quantum computing capabilities
Central bank to provide extra S$100 million for financial institutions to explore new technologies
Egypt holds rates as inflation recedes
Central bank only forecasts significant decline in inflation next year
Global current account balance to narrow, IMF says
Weakening commodity prices have stripped energy-exporting countries of their surpluses
Macro-prudential announcements cut systemic risk, paper finds
BoE paper says unexpected changes that tighten policy are effective
Spanish political parties fail to agree on new governor
Opposition refuses to accept government’s nomination of former ECB official Escrivá
UAE to link payments system with Indonesia and Ethiopia
UAE and Ethiopia sign currency swap agreement worth up to $817 million
BoE’s high-value payment system hit by ‘global payments issue’
Settlement of some payments delayed after problem originating with Swift; ECB delays closure of Target systems
European Central Bank holds rates
Inflation set for return to target in 2025, as Lagarde defends ECB response to staff burnout
Basel Committee finalises crypto asset disclosure rules
Disclosure and prudential standards to be implemented by 2026
Nature risk poses ‘major data and modelling challenges’ – FSB
Stocktake finds supervisors at varied stages of analysing biodiversity loss and related risks
Central clearing creates repo concentration risk – research
‘Window dressing’ is a uniquely European phenomenon, Bank of Italy study finds