Private sector tools are an important resource for many central banks to monitor how their messaging is working. Central Banking asked 33 participants in the Communications 2022 Benchmarks what tools they use to design and…
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Surinamese authorities have accused several people, including a senior finance ministry official, of stealing about $2 million from government accounts at the central bank, according to media reports. Central bank governor Maurice Roemer told his…
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Jerome Powell. Photo: Bipartisan Policy Center Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell sold municipal bonds valued at between $1.2 million and $2.5 million on June 30. Powell was acting in compliance with the Fed’s recent ethics…
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The German central bank’s new digital agenda includes major re-engineering of legacy analytics, processes, innovation management and digital competency by : Source link
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The Polish government is proposing using central bank profits to subsidise households that use coal as heating fuel. The programme would provide a single 3,000 zloty ($640) payment to every Polish home with a coal-burning…
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Well-designed central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) could improve financial stability, says a paper published by the US Office of Financial Research. Todd Keister and Cyril Monnet’s paper, Central Bank Digital Currency: Stability and Information, argues…
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Christine Lagarde: regulatory and supervisory technology can help “shut criminals out of the crypto world” The head of the International Monetary Fund has suggested using the same technological innovations that underpin cryptocurrencies to help regulate…
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The BIS chief speaks about how to strengthen the global safety net, vulnerabilities in emerging markets and the challenges and opportunities posed by fintech by : Source link
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The past year saw a number of factors expand the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) balance sheet, governor Glenn Stevens wrote in the central bank’s Annual Report 2014. Stevens described the changes as “substantial”, saying…
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Christopher Waller, a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, told a conference on May 6 that the Fed was not falling short of its mandate. He defended the actions of the US central…
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