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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Central banks should develop a common accounting standard when it comes to evaluating how much capital they hold, Patrick Honohan has argued. In a paper published this month, the former governor of the Central Bank…
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Stanley Fischer, one of the most accomplished and influential central bankers of his generation, died on May 31 at the age of 81. Fischer’s contemporaries in the top echelons of global policy-making remember him as…
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Reflections on the international financial situation – Central Banking Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content Jacques de Larosière writes that markets are blind to Trump’s policy shocks that are fragmenting the monetary…
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Rate-setters at the Bank of England should make their estimates of future policy rates more visible to the public, a member of its monetary policy committee (MPC) has argued. In a lecture at the London…
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