It is highly common for central banks to offer background briefings on key initiatives to journalists, the Communications Benchmarks 2023 found. Ninety-five percent of the respondents (36 of 38 central banks) said they offer such…
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Manuel António Tiago Dias has become the new governor of the National Bank of Angola, succeeding José de Lima Massano. Angola’s president appointed Massano minister for economic co-ordination last week, following protests against increases in…
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A senior International Monetary Fund official has sketched out a model for an automated global central bank digital currency (CBDC) exchange platform. Tobias Adrian, director of the monetary and capital markets department, said this network…
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Central banks’ websites get more than half of their traffic from search engines on average, data from the Communications Benchmarks 2023 shows. For 31 central banks that responded to the question, search engines accounted for…
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Central Bank of Costa Rica Costa Rica’s government has proposed legal changes to strengthen the central bank’s independence, removing the finance minister from its board and reforming its auditing procedures. “Monetary policy actions can be…
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The National Bank of Angola Angola’s central bank governor José de Lima Massano left the role to become the cabinet minister responsible for the economy on June 8. The National Bank of Angola (BNA) said…
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The Bank of England and Bank for International Settlements have developed application programming interface (API) prototypes for a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) ecosystem. Project Rosalind was led by the UK arm of the…
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Argentina deferred 7.4 trillion pesos ($15.4 billion) in interest payments due this year in a debt swap operation on June 8. Nearly 78% of eligible bondholders agreed to the swap. “Today, we completed the largest…
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Interest rates in the eurozone should be higher, Joachim Nagel, president of the Deutsche Bundesbank, argued on May 9. “We haven’t finished yet: interest rates should rise further still,” he said in the interview. The European…
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