Summary
Currency Benchmarks 2024 – executive summary
Data sheds light on banknote design features, access to cash policies and cash cycle management
Reserve Benchmarks 2023 – executive summary
Key findings of the 2023 benchmark, including coverage ratios, strategies to tackle high inflation, new trends in asset diversification, geopolitical risks and external managers
Financial Stability Benchmarks 2023 – executive summary
Key findings of the 2023 benchmark, including resources, regulation, macro-pru, crime and future risk
Monetary Policy Benchmarks 2023 – executive summary
Key findings of the 2023 benchmark, including policy tools, governance structures and operating frameworks
Payments Benchmarks 2023 – executive summary
Payments are undergoing rapid technological change, creating opportunities – and challenges
Communications Benchmarks 2023 – executive summary
Data reveals comms teams’ structures and strategies, as well as key trends in media usage
Governance Benchmarks 2023 – executive summary
Data shows EMEs and advanced economies differing in profits, appointments and policies
Fintech Benchmarks 2023 – executive summary
Most central banks continue work on CBDC, while payments innovation again tops research agenda
Risk Management Benchmarks 2023 – executive summary
Key results from the 2023 benchmarks, including risk priorities, organisational structure and metrics
Economics Benchmarks 2022 – executive summary
Key findings of the 2022 report, including model choices, governance structures and data use
Currency Benchmarks 2022 report – executive summary
Cash far from extinct and volumes continue to grow in many places
Reserve Benchmarks 2022 report – executive summary
Findings on strategies to tame the impact of inflation and geopolitical risk, technology resources and green investments
Financial Stability Benchmarks 2022 report – executive summary
Data sheds light on how central banks are dealing with risks to stability
Monetary Policy Benchmarks 2022 report – executive summary
Benchmarking data sheds light on some of the key aspects of central bank operating frameworks
Payments Benchmarks 2022 – executive summary
Key findings of the 2022 report, including the emergence of a novel digital payments landscape
Communications Benchmarks 2022 – executive summary
Key findings of the 2022 report, including the ongoing shift to social media and the impact of Covid-19
Governance Benchmarks 2022 – executive summary
Central banks discuss how they deal with problems of accountability and independence
Fintech Benchmarks 2022 – executive summary
Intelligence on internal fintech challenges at central banks as they contend with the fast-paced industry
Risk Management Benchmarks 2022 – executive summary
Insights on risk priorities among central banks and how they are changing
Economics Benchmarks 2021 report – executive summary
Covid-19 coloured central banks’ views on the governance of their economics function in the past year, from research topics to forecasting, data, publications and more
Currency Benchmarks 2021 report – executive summary
Perspectives on staffing, circulation, forecasting, note security and composition, outsourcing and more