Bonds
BoE and bond vigilantes ‘not responsible for 2022 gilts crisis’
Ex-bank official rejects former PM’s claims that LDIs were primary cause of yield spike
Interpreting the PBoC’s slew of policy reforms
How are new stimulus measures, bond market tactics, deflationary pressures and monetary policy framework changes affecting central banking in China?
PBoC starts trading Chinese government bonds
Central bank has bought 100 billion yuan net of bonds in August
Banknotes: July to September 2024
A round-up of news and salient issues that have affected central bankers in the past three months
PBoC stress-tests financial institutions’ bond holdings
Bank steps up efforts to tame market rally while keeping key medium-term rate unchanged
PBoC stops injecting short-term liquidity
Decision adds to central bank’s recent efforts to tame rally in long-term government bonds
BoJ raises policy rate, outlines plan to reduce bond purchases
Governor says bank will raise rates again if economy and prices move in line with projections
Palau building blockchain government bond platform
Contract won by Japanese company that co-developed Cambodia’s digital currency
Ukraine’s governor on central banking as war endures
The NBU’s Andriy Pyshnyy speaks about the need for investment and reform amid labour shortages, securing war-risk insurance and Ukrainian funding from Russia’s frozen assets
PBoC to start additional open market operations
Move could increase importance of seven-day reverse repo rate, some analysts say
Sri Lanka secures deal to restructure $12.6bn of bonds
IMF still to review if deal conforms with Sri Lanka’s debt sustainability targets
MAS carbon emissions rise amid shift to greener investment portfolio
Equity and corporate bond climate exposures fall as rising air travel and data use drive up own emissions
Banque de France and HKMA to conduct cross-border CBDC test
HKMA is the first non-European central bank to join the Eurosystem’s wholesale DLT settlement trials
BNM’s Rasheed on inflation, growth and currency performance in emerging markets
Bank Negara Malaysia’s governor speaks about balancing inflation and growth, supporting the ringgit, multilateral currency settlement and greening Islamic finance
SNB carries out first tokenised monetary policy operation
Central bank issued $72 million in bonds on DLT settled in wholesale CBDC
BoJ to reduce its government bond purchases
Central bank will announce bond-buying details at next meeting and keeps rates unchanged
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
QE helped smooth sovereign bond yields, ECB paper finds
Eurosystem’s asset purchases helped reduce effect of “auction cycle”, researcher says
China to start selling ultra-long term sovereign bonds
Authorities will start selling 30-year bonds as first stage of major fiscal stimulus
HKMA publishes sustainable finance taxonomy
Hong Kong extends scope of green bond subsidy and develops climate risk assessment tool
Chinese policy-makers warm to PBoC bond trading
PBoC’s trading of government bonds will be different from QE, central bank official says
US news has a large impact on global bond yields – research
Bank of Canada research finds US news affects expectations in other countries
Supervisors grapple with the smaller bank dilemma
How are the guardians of stability moving to address risks linked to smaller banks in the aftermath of SVB’s collapse?