Central bank digital currencies will have an important role to play in the financial system as technology evolves, monetary policy-makers have said. In a panel on the future of digital payments at the Central Banking…
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Central bank communications teams are more likely to view non-staff resources as adequate than human resources, the Communication Benchmarks 2025 find. Respondents assigned scores to their staff and non-staff resource sufficiency. This was carried out…
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People: January to March 2026 – Central Banking Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content A round-up of central bankers in the news and on the move during the past three months Warsh…
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The issuance of retail central bank digital currencies may not stop the spread of stablecoins, a new economic note from the Swiss National Bank argues. In their paper, published on April 2, Severin Bernhard and Philipp…
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Supply-side shock stuns central banks – Central Banking Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content The partial closure of the Strait of Hormuz raises fresh challenges for central bank policy-makers Iran’s decision to…
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Most central banks utilise social media and press releases as external transmission tools, data from the Communications Benchmarks 2025 reveals. All but one of the 40 respondents uses social media as an external communications apparatus.…
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The Bank for International Settlements has confirmed that John Williams, president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, has been appointed to a second three-year term as chair of its markets committee.…
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The Middle East energy crisis is unfolding against a better backdrop than the one that prevailed four years ago, Christine Lagarde has said. In a speech opening the European Central Bank Watchers Conference in Frankfurt…
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The Bank of Korea is expected to tilt towards hawkishness with the appointment of Hyun Song Shin as its governor, economists have said. Shin was nominated for the role on March 22, the same day…
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Dirk Niepelt on the political economy of CBDCs – Central Banking Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content The BoE CBDC adviser discusses the social role of a retail digital currency versus commercial…
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