People: new deputy governor at Central Bank of Ireland – Central Banking Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content Plus appointments at FATF, Financial Stability Board and European Stability Mechanism Colm Kincaid The…
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Introducing central bank digital currencies that earn interest would reduce banks’ power in the market, yielding higher rates for depositors, a new study claims. The paper, published on July 9 by the Centre for Economic…
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Failure to appoint deputies ‘a step back’ – Montenegrin central bank – Central Banking Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content Bank will “continue to implement its mandate” despite parliament not approving its…
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The European Central Bank has said it has made further improvements to the rule book for the proposed digital euro. In its third progress report, published on July 16, the ECB said it had received “extensive…
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The growing co-operation between Egypt and China provides further evidence of a shift away from a dollar-based international monetary order, an expert tells Central Banking. The Egyptian and Chinese central banks signed a memorandum of…
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US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell The feud between US president Donald Trump and Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has taken a new turn, with the administration’s focus shifting to the $2.5 billion renovations bill…
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Peter Kažimír, the governor of the National Bank of Slovakia, has been found guilty of bribing an official in 2016 when he was finance minister, a special tribunal ruled today (May 29). The judge, Milan…
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Piero Cipollone this week tried a subtly different approach to persuade lenders in the eurozone to sign up to a central bank digital currency. During a speech on July 10 in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana,…
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The US has a large trade deficit, rising government debt and a growing disparity in incomes. President Donald Trump believes he is introducing policies to tackle these issues. Yet, you have said he “effectively declared…
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Brazil’s ‘biggest-ever’ heist highlights cyber security gaps – Central Banking Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content Experts say theft, targeting network linking small lenders to central bank, could have been prevented Brazil’s…
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