Collateral
Lifetime achievement award: Otmar Issing
The architect of the euro’s monetary operating framework is still playing an important role in shaping the debate on monetary policy
Collateral management services: National Bank of Georgia/Montran
The duo developed Georgia’s fully automated new collateral framework
Treasury systems initiative: Calypso Technology
The tech company secured important breakthroughs including with its Maps treasury operations system
Paper takes ‘Hank’ approach to eurozone policy transmission
Authors identify three key dimensions of household heterogeneity
Will the Fed pass its year-end funding test?
An unprecedented rate spike in September prompted the Fed to inject billions into funding markets. But will its efforts be enough to foil year-end pressures? Could opening the standing repo facility to foreign central banks help?
Bank of Canada plans new emergency liquidity facility
Facility designed in response to new threats, such as cyber and extreme weather events
King calls for radical shake-up to escape ‘low-growth trap’
Central bank models fail to appreciate demand-side secular stagnation; IMF could help to drive country-specific policies to reallocate resources
Big tech: a threat to banks?
The explosive growth of financial services offered by big tech companies in China offers important lessons
Seven threats from big tech’s libra
Can central banks avoid a ‘big tech’ monetary meltdown?
Banque de France research takes fresh look at eurozone interbank markets
Secured interbank markets not bounded by ECB’s deposit facility rate, results show
BoE paper explores collateral’s impact on labour market
Collateral value affects hiring decisions by small businesses, authors find
BIS’s Borio warns of ‘troubling’ negative yields
BIS quarterly review highlights new peaks in negative-yielding debt and examines CLO risks
30 years of central banking
Central banks face credibility tests on a number of fronts
Norges Bank lays out plans for collateral management during resolution
Liquidity assistance in a resolution will “never” be a long-term solution, Torbjørn Hægeland says
Asset bubbles play role in macro-prudential policy – IMF research
Their size may determine optimal tax levels to address credit imbalances
Canadian collateral can withstand crisis-level systemic risk – BoC paper
Trading by bank customers could be a potential indicator of future crisis, researcher says
Finding the right partners with the right solutions
Over the past decade, the financial crisis, globalisation and technological changes have driven uncertainty and brought about drastic changes for central banks. Vermeg‘s Yamen Bousrih explores the importance of having a consolidated, coherent and…
IBM wins contract to support Canadian RTGS overhaul
Canada is preparing to replace its unusual high-value payment system with a new generation
Capital requirements impact collateral demands – BoE paper
Higher capital requirements can make banks demand more collateral, authors find
Risk management technology: Vermeg
Having successfully delivered the collateral management module of its Megara system to four major central banks, Vermeg has won a high-profile tender to deliver the technology for the Eurosystem Collateral Management System
The PBoC’s efforts to solve the ‘impossible trinity’
Chinese central bank intervenes to manage offshore renminbi rate; uses swaps, rather than selling reserves in latest currency interventions
BoE issues warning over global leveraged loan market
Scale, growth and lending standards similar to pre-crisis subprime lending, BoE reports
Information can substitute for collateral, BoE paper finds
Strong lending relationships can insulate a firm during booms and busts
Central banks could do more to tackle climate change – paper
Central banks may be mispricing assets due to climate change risk, paper argues