The Central Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan Azerbaijan’s president appointed a new central bank governor today (April 13), one day after the departure of the man who held the job for 27 years. Official…
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Shinichi Uchida, executive director at the Bank of Japan, outlined the next phase of work on the country’s prospective central bank digital currency (CBDC) on April 13. Earlier in April, the central bank started phase…
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Satisfying regulatory demands can be made cheaper and more straightforward via distributed ledger technology as regulatory reporting has a transformational effect on the regulatory value chain. Maciej Piechocki, Moritz Plenk and Noah Bellon of BearingPoint discuss the challenges…
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A 1% inflation target should not be feared The current monetary policy challenge could be defined as follows: if we accept, as central bankers do, that inflation – which now stands at around 1.0–1.5%, ie,…
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The screening of local government debt is currently in progress. Are you worried that the revealed scale of the issue will escalate, so creating a local debt crisis? The problem of local government debt is…
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Federal Reserve board member Lael Brainard said on April 5 that Fed policy-makers could start shrinking its balance sheet “at a rapid pace” from May. Brainard declared that “it is of paramount importance to get…
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An investigation by a US-based foundation says Zimbabwean authorities, including the central bank, gave hundreds of millions of US dollars to a politically connected businessperson. The Sentry, a Washington-based investigative foundation, reported that Zimbabwean authorities…
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The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) has paid out its profits to the government early, following an extraordinary general meeting held today (January 18).…
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Only two women applied to replace Mark Carney as governor of the Bank of England (BoE), despite the involvement of a recruitment firm that prides itself on attracting female applicants. A letter from the chancellor…
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Central Bank of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka’s president has appointed an official previously accused of negligence by a judicial inquiry to lead the central bank, after the ex-governor resigned amid worsening crisis. Gotabaya Rajapaksa asked…
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