Big data
BoE economists build news-based growth indicator
Newspaper articles can be boiled down to a useful early indicator of economic activity, they say
Central Banking expands fintech bandwidth
New fintech category; newsletter to offer insights into related opportunities and threats
Data overhaul needed to enhance insolvency frameworks – IMF
Paper highlights the importance of data in analysing efficiency of current resolution policies
Central bank of the year: Monetary Authority of Singapore
Singapore’s central bank stands out for its pioneering fintech efforts combined with its consistency of performance in monetary policy, financial stability and supervision
Currency manager: Bank of Israel
The Israeli central bank is revolutionising the way it manages the country’s banknotes while maintaining security and preparing for the future
PRA using AI to understand connectivity of rulebook
UK regulator is using Google search engine algorithm to see if rulebook can be streamlined, says BoE’s Proudman
Atlanta Fed launches new rental market data tool
The affordability tracker sheds a new light on how many households in the region are struggling to find affordable housing
BIS committee finds inadequacies in derivatives data
Challenges remain, despite significant progress, Irving Fisher Committee reports
Agent-based models: a new frontier for macroeconomics?
Agent-based modelling is opening up new possibilities for economics, but the discipline is still struggling to move from the sidelines to the mainstream
Canada’s Sabean on tackling a data governance overhaul
The Bank of Canada has been making “significant investments” in data, says senior director
‘Amazon effects’ impact pricing across economy – paper
Alberto Cavallo says online competition has changed pricing dynamics on- and offline
Insights from network analytics in suptech
With regulators leveraging technological innovations to move towards informed, data‑driven decision‑making and automation, supervisory technology is attracting enhanced interest. Kimmo Soramäki and Phillip Straley examine how regulators are gaining…
MAS fintech officer tells regulators to upgrade to cloud
Data centres are no longer equipped to handle the “uncontrollable” growth of data, Mohanty says
IMF paper builds corruption indicator using big data
Corruption shocks negatively impact long-term real outcomes, authors say
New York Fed publishes nowcasting code
Matlab code for estimating a dynamic factor model now available in online repository
Imperfect algorithms impact market pricing – Fed paper
News-parsing algorithms create temporary distortions and may cut liquidity, paper finds
Big data in central banks focus report 2018
The third Central Banking big data focus report delves further into recent trends as central banks grapple with the question of upgrading their approaches to data
Data handling – A rethink
Official institutions are maturing as big data users but there is plenty more work to be done.
Sponsored forum: Putting big data into action
Central Banking convened a panel of experts to discuss how central banks and other supervisors can maximise the potential of data, while overcoming hurdles to its collection and deployment
Putting big data into action
Big data is changing the way central banks think about the economy and oversee the financial system. In a forum sponsored by BearingPoint, Central Banking convened a panel of experts to discuss the innovative ways central banks are making use of big data.
Turning data challenges into opportunities
With central banks becoming increasingly reliant on data, BearingPoint elaborates on the increasing role of innovative regulatory and supervisory technology in supervision.
Big data in central banks: 2018 survey results
As work in big data enters the mainstream for central banks, its policymaking and supervisory influence is expanding, prompting significant investment in new technologies.
Suptech: More than just a new name for solving an old problem
The global financial crisis sparked a far-ranging overhaul of the international architecture for financial regulation, coupled with a deep reflection around the fitness-for-purpose and effectiveness of supervisory efforts, writes Anne Leslie-Bini.
BoE paper uses millions of job adverts to understand labour market
Researchers analysed 15 million adverts over eight years to categorise jobs