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Central Banking Awards 2023 – the winners in full
Awards recognise extraordinary achievements by central banks and their partners in the past year
Central Banking Awards 2023: final group of winners revealed
Awards recognise lifetime achievement of Stefan Ingves, as well as reserves management, currency, technology and more
Lifetime achievement: Stefan Ingves
Modest man from the Finnish ‘boonies’ has had a major impact on international central banking
Central Banking Awards 2023: third group of winners announced
Awards include economic research, payments reform and risk management services
Central Banking Awards 2023: second group of winners unveiled
Awards announced for Governor of the year, Communications, Transparency and partners
Biden nominates Ajay Banga to lead World Bank
Ahead of the nomination, some argued president should pick a non-US citizen
BoT’s Sethaput on inflation dynamics, central bank mandates and multi-lateral payments
The Bank of Thailand governor speaks with Christopher Jeffery about the trend towards higher inflation, the sustainable finance challenge, experiments with CBDCs and governance issues related to multi-lateral payments
Stefan Ingves on leadership, prudential oversight and transparency
The Riksbank and Basel Committee veteran speaks about his leadership philosophy, Basel III deal-making and concerns about regulatory rollback, the value of QE and negative rates, and the need for a legal architecture for CBDCs
It is time to reorganise the Bank of England
Recent crises have shown the BoE’s management structure to be outdated, says William Allen
The ECB’s collateral conundrum
A lack of high-quality collateral in the eurozone has resulted in money market rates lagging ECB policy rates, hampering monetary policy transmission
Armenia’s Galstyan calls for a new framework to tackle uncertainty and nonlinearities
Central Bank of Armenia governor says central banks can start to regain credibility by admitting their mistakes. This could include employing a risk-management approach to monetary policy aimed at avoiding nonlinear ‘dark corners’ and placing much less…
Weidmann to join Commerzbank in 2023
Former Bundesbank president will become chairman of the bank’s supervisory board
Ukrainian ex-governor attacks claim he is hiding from probe
Shevchenko says investigation is “politicised” after agency puts him on "wanted list"
Monetary Policy Benchmarks 2022 – presentation
Central Banking’s economics subject matter specialist Daniel Hinge discusses monetary policy after Covid-19
Atlanta Fed chief admits to trading rules violations
Bostic claims he misinterpreted rules on funds managed by third parties
BIS project seeks better historical statistics
Collaboration between BIS, central banks and academia aims at better understanding of economic history
IMF unlocks $31.9 million for Madagascar
Natural disasters and oil price rises increased fiscal deficit
Will the dollar remain the world’s reserve currency?
Bank of Russia sanctions are unlikely to undermine the US dollar’s central role in reserve portfolios. But a relative decline in US economic weight and technological innovation are benefiting other currencies
Tensions flare between policy-makers over US Treasury reform
SEC’s proposed rule-changes have “ruffled feathers” at Treasury department
US Treasury market preps for reporting showdown
Sifma expected to attack transparency plans; prop traders brand objections “crazy”
‘Very little support’ for a US Treasury clearing mandate – Isda
Dealers and clients prefer carrot to stick in efforts to improve Treasury market liquidity
Taiwan academics call for central bank reform
Academica Sinica says the central bank could invest part of its foreign reserves into a sovereign wealth fund
BoE flags global risks in ‘opaque’ commodities market
LME disruption reveals “highly leveraged” participants within financial system
G30 warns US Treasury market remains vulnerable
Group says US regulators need to do more to prevent dysfunction in the critical market