Indonesia’s parliament has approved the nomination of Destry Damayanti as the new governor of the country’s central bank, following Perry Warjiyo’s surprise resignation last month. Indonesia’s Antara news agency reported on August 27 that Damayanti…
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Kevin Warsh has rejected calls to explain the Federal Reserve’s reaction function during his keynote speech at Jackson Hole. Speaking today (August 28) during the annual symposium organised by the Kansas City Fed, Warsh said…
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People: July to September 2026 – Central Banking Skip to main content Close navigation menu End of drawer navigation content A round-up of central bankers in the news and on the move during the past…
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Richard Vague, The banker who made America: Thomas Willing and the rise of the American financial aristocracy, 1731–1821, Polity, 2026, 368 pages In The banker who made America, author Richard Vague seeks to bring Thomas…
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The messages sent by central banks rarely reach the public directly, unlike newspaper narratives about these communications, found a July working paper published by Bank of England and Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) researchers.…
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Brian Langrin has taken over as governor of the Bank of Jamaica today (August 19). In announcing the appointment on August 17, the country’s finance minister Fayval Williams said Langrin was a “forward-looking leader whose…
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The Brics group of emerging market economies is discussing linking their instant payments systems and central bank digital currencies, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India said today (August 11). “Cross-border payments is an…
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Financial supervisory authorities are increasingly leveraging cloud-native infrastructure, granular data, and AI-enhanced oversight to transition towards a more data-driven and forward-looking approach to supervision Amid rising data volumes, increasing complexity and evolving supervisory demands, central…
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Speeches by European Central Bank officials are “twice as religious” as those from other central banks, new research has concluded. A blog post from London School of Economics researcher David Barkhausen and colleagues, published on…
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The former central bank governor and premier of China, Zhu Rongji, who during his time in government oversaw a period of significant economic reform, has died. He was 97. The Chinese government announced Zhu’s death…
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