Strategic planning
Geopolitical risks to reserve adequacy: 2024 survey
Geopolitics are heightened going into 2025. Twenty-four reserve managers reveal their strategies.
To govern well, manage ‘enterprise’ risk
Effective risk management should be governance-oriented and top-down; not operationally oriented and bottom-up, writes John Mendzela
UAE plans to launch CBDC by 2026
Fintech strategy aims for cashless society through digital transformation
RBI strategy targets global rupee use
Central bank aims for wider use of Indian payment technology and spread of national currency
Morocco’s Jouahri on inflation, forex reform, digitalisation and sustainability
The Central Bank of Morocco governor speaks with Christopher Jeffery about Covid-19 policies, Fed tightening, BIS membership, regional co-operation and financial inclusion
Filipe Dinis on Bank of Canada’s cyber strategy and tackling cyber risks
The Canadian central bank’s chief operating officer calls for heightened vigilance, more collaboration, info sharing and tabletop exercises, and less reliance on similar, siloed systems
Powell: ‘nothing’ in the way of a 50bp rate hike
Fed chair is hoping to even out supply and demand imbalances in the labour market
Few central banks cover environmental risk
Central banks list environmental risk as a minor source of risk
Communications Benchmarks 2021 report – making connections
Data offers insights into staffing and salaries, communications channels, social media, new technology and strategies
Governance Benchmarks 2021 report – the frameworks that rule central banks
How are central banks governed? Benchmarking data offers insights on appointments, legal structures, powers, decision-making bodies, independence and more
Formal strategy committees remain relatively rare
Boards of directors are widely used but specialist oversight committees are less common
The evolving ‘strategy function’ in central banks
Some institutions participating in a survey of 27 central banks still struggle to fully harness an effective ‘strategy function’, according to the ECB’s Jean-Charles Sevet and Alejandro de la Cuesta
Bank of Finland to focus on sustainable growth
Central bank also aims to create “world’s best” financial literacy programme
People: New deputies named in China and Mexico
Plus ECB appoints senior supervisors, and Donald Trump tries to install new OCC chief
Central Banking’s strategic changes for a new era
New institute, benchmarks, virtual training and online event weeks launched
ECB extends strategy review until mid-2021
Central bank postpones public events by six months due to the Covid-19 crisis
BoE should improve governance around research, review finds
Research has improved but some issues remain, Independent Evaluation Office says