Central bankers say there is a wide array of use cases for central bank digital currency (CBDC), but caution against letting the focus of digital currency projects become too broad. “We are at a point…
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Central Banking’s fifth annual FinTech RegTech Global Awards showcase the ground-breaking projects undertaken within the central banking community. The results are revealed in the awards articles published in this special winners’ review. They show how…
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This year’s Jackson Hole conference revealed the previous consensus that central banks should focus on ‘keeping their own houses in order’ to achieve the best global results may be losing momentum. Bank of England Mark…
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Christine Lagarde, managing director of the IMF Christine Lagarde, IMF managing director, has applauded the issuance of a Mexican bond with new-style collective action clauses that make it harder for holdout creditors to fight restructurings.…
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The Central Bank of Morocco has become the latest regulator to prohibit financial firms it supervises from distributing dividends. In a statement published on May 11, the central bank asked all credit institutions to “suspend”…
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A recent article by the Atlanta Fed’s ‘Economy Matters’ explores the work Ron Garner and Tony Curtis have been doing to oversee commercial banks for consumer compliance, shedding light on the Fed’s approach to supervision.…
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The Swiss National Bank has defended its governing board after an April 2022 NGO report criticised it for lacking differing points of view. SNB spokesperson Claudia Aebersold Szalay, told Central Banking on June 3 that…
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Lesotho’s government announced on June 8 that it had appointed Emmanuel Maluke Letete to a five-year term as the new central bank governor. Letete was a non-executive director on the central bank board between 2015…
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Central banks could improve the energy efficiency of payment systems if they make the right design choices when developing digital currencies, research published by the International Monetary Fund finds. Digital currencies and energy consumption explores…
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The Central Bank of Brazil has launched a new platform that will make it easier for emerging fintech companies to test their products before launching to the general public. Structured around a sandbox model, the…
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