It would be a “game changer” if the Federal Reserve joined the Network for Greening the Financial System, the head of the group’s secretariat said. Speaking at Central Banking’s Climate Risk event today (December…
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Conakry, capital of Guinea Guinea’s military government removed the governor and deputy governors of the Central Bank of the Republic of Guinea (BCRG) on December 7 and appointed new management, Guinean media reports. The president,…
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Bank for International Settlements, Basel The consortium behind Project Jura successfully settled a “real-life” transfer of securities and cash between France and Switzerland in November. The group – which includes the Bank for International Settlements,…
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Some regulatory authorities considerably increased their use of supervisory technology, or “suptech”, a new Financial Stability Institute survey finds. Prior to the pandemic, regulatory authorities had made relatively limited use of suptech for prudential…
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Major economic blocs, such as the US, European Union, China and Japan, have engaged in ‘currency wars’ for a number of years, which now risk spiralling into ever more disruptive “beggar-thy-neighbour” policies, according to Jacques…
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Argentina to undergo IMF article VI consultation later this year The International Monetary Fund has released a host of informal briefings on Argentina compiled by staff between 2013 and 2015, after the Latin American nation…
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Fed will no longer refer to inflation as “transitory” by : Source link
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Roberto Campos Neto, governor of the Central Bank of Brazil (BCB), appears in the Pandora Papers leak of records as an assetholder in offshore tax havens, several media sources report. The International Consortium of Investigative…
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The Federal Reserve’s recent liquidity injections led to its lowest remittance to the Treasury since 2009, preliminary results show. The central bank handed over $54.9 billion to the Treasury, down from $65.8 billion in 2018.…
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There is no doubt the art of central bank communications is evolving constantly. Before 1994, the US Federal Reserve would not publish the results of its interest rate decisions. Senior central bank officials rarely…
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