Balance sheet
BIS profit rises as balance sheet grows
Institution close to completing five-year strategic plan, as deposits hit record high
Lessons from the banking turmoil of 2023
Guardrails on capital, liquidity, deposit insurance, resolution, digitalisation and disintermediation need a rethink
How Argentina’s financial tango could become a dance of death
Central bank and government’s unholy alliance is storing up further trouble for economy
BoJ pays record profits to government
Central bank contributes $13.8 billion with gains from ETFs and bonds
Risks facing central banks: action and inaction
Unlike Fed policy in the 1990s, central bank actions this century do not appear overly accommodative, given poor policy decisions elsewhere, writes Andrew Smithers
Bailey predicts ‘significant increase’ in BoE repo operations
Banks have started demanding reserves through short-term repo facility as balance sheet shrinks
Cecilia Skingsley on monetary policy tech and a unified ledger
Head of the BIS Innovation Hub speaks about tokenisation, CBDCs and the ‘black box problem’ in AI
Trends in reserve management 2024: survey results
Insights on geopolitical risk, AI, asset diversification, risk management and ESG adoption
Few central banks have recapitalisation deals – BoE paper
Survey of 70 jurisdictions argues institutions need “robust framework” to repair capital shortfalls
Riksbank asks government for recapitalisation
Governor called for stronger self-financing capacity in January
Federal Reserve posts largest operating loss ever
As of March 21, the Fed owed $157.8 billion to an accounting device, a “deferred asset”
ECB economists highlight smooth quantitative tightening
Foreign investors are largest euro area securities holders, but households are buying more
SNB posts loss of Sfr3.2 billion
Sight deposit account balances drove this year’s loss, Swiss National Bank says
‘Passive’ QT can be costly, BoE paper finds
Research highlights need to account for frictions and build “headroom” for future shocks
Dallas Fed chief says pace of QT may need to slow down
Lorie Logan argues US central bank should take more measured approach to normalising balance sheet
ECB suffers first loss in two decades as rate risk bites
Loss takes €7 billion chunk out of central bank’s equity
The BoJ’s possible path to positive rates
Are market expectations about a spring shift from negative Japanese rates credible, asks Sayuri Shirai
Governance and diversity at the Federal Reserve
Could changes in governance practices have contributed to poor performance in 2021–22? asks Jeffrey Lacker
Cyber security remains critical concern for risk managers
High income central banks put greater emphasis on market and credit risks
The risks facing the Chinese economy
China isn’t at risk of a financial meltdown, but it does face a slow puncture, writes Michael Taylor
Ghana’s Ernest Addison on the chain of events that led to a loss of $5 billion
The Bank of Ghana governor speaks with Christopher Jeffery about what necessitated monetary financing, the boundaries of ‘independence’ and the results of offline tests of the e-cedi
ECB’s Schnabel does not rule out rate cut before mid-2024
Executive board member deems more rate hikes “rather unlikely”
The long and short of it: Central Banking case studies in point
Invesco comments on the case study interviews conducted by Central Banking for this report, and key reserve challenges such as global high inflation and balance sheet dynamics in emerging and advanced economies.
The ECCB’s Timothy Antoine on currency union, cooperation and DCash 2.0
The ECCB governor speaks with Christopher Jeffery about maintaining a currency zone, addressing climate and cyber risks, the decline in correspondence banking and lessons learned from issuing a retail CBDC