President William Ruto has nominated Njuguna Ndung’u to head Kenya’s National Treasury. A Central Bank of Kenya governor for eight years between 2007 and 2015, Ndung’u is also an accomplished researcher and a University of…
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The central banks of China, Hong Kong, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates have completed a cross-border digital currency trial co-ordinated by the Bank for International Settlements. The central bank digital currency (CBDC) trial ran…
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It’s hard to imagine a time when “coronavirus” wasn’t a household word. But for a long time, this family of viruses had merited very little attention. Believed to be ubiquitous among animals and avian species,…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The logo of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna March 16, 2010. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – The OPEC+ group of oil producers is discussing output…
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Friendswood, Texas, is the type of community that one might think of as a “best case scenario” when it comes to recovering from a disaster. It is a small tight-knit town with well-resourced residents and…
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We live in a world characterised by inequality, poverty, economic volatility, globalisation, climate change and ambiguity. In my own country, South Africa, residents have to navigate socioeconomic and political instability, power and water cuts, homelessness,…
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2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: FA worker loads copper cathodes into a warehouse near Yangshan Deep Water Port, south of Shanghai, China, March 23, 2012. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo 2/2 By Mai Nguyen and Siyi Liu…
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With UK government bonds and sterling both falling hard in recent days, the Bank of England has been forced to step in. Only a few months after it started tightening monetary policy to fight inflation…
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The Panel Malick Dioume, Director, Risk Management, Bank of Haiti Reinhold Felber, Head of Reserve Management, Operations Department,Central Bank of Luxembourg Hatem Ibrahim, Chief Financial Officer, Central Bank of Egypt Jarno Ilves, Head of Asset Management,…
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© Reuters. Prime Minister of Israel Yair Lapid addresses the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters in New York City, U.S., September 22, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Segar By Dan Williams JERUSALEM…
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