Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington New Zealand central bank governor Adrian Orr has defended its use of the Māori language in its communications. He made the comments on November 29 as a new coalition…
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Argentina’s president-elect, Javier Milei, is struggling to find a new governor for the Central Bank of Argentina. Emilio Ocampo, professor of economic history and former investment banker, was expected to take the helm of the…
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Korea plans to pilot a central bank digital currency prototype involving 100,000 citizens in the fourth quarter of next year. The Bank of Korea (BoK), Financial Services Commission and Financial Supervisory Services will jointly operate…
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Vietnamese police have accused 24 former and current central bank officials of accepting bribes from Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SCB) to overlook financial problems at the bank. Seventeen officials from the State Bank of…
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Bank of Portugal governor Mário Centeno faces an ethics review, after outgoing prime António Costa proposed him as his successor. Costa resigned on November 7 after prosecutors issued arrest warrants for members of his cabinet…
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The National Bank of Kazakhstan launched its central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital tenge, on November 15 in Almaty. The first CBDC transactions were executed using bank cards powered by Mastercard and Visa. Digital…
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Amir Yaron is likely to remain as the Bank of Israel’s governor after prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered him a second term today (November 20). In a statement posted on social media, Netanyahu and finance…
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The International Monetary Fund launched its central bank digital currency (CBDC) virtual handbook on November 15, aimed at ministries of finance and central bankers, to guide their work on the new form of money. “We…
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The Bank of Portugal’s ethics committee cleared governor Mário Centeno of any wrongdoing today (November 15). The central bank asked the committee on November 13 to assess whether Centeno had incurred conflicts of interest after…
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The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) is preparing for a full “commercial deployment” of DCash, the central bank digital currency (CBDC) it has been piloting since March 2021. Governor Timothy Antoine said the ECCB “intends…
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