More women may gain senior roles in central banks due to the changes brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, a panel of senior policy-makers told a webinar today (June 25). The Deutsche Bundesbank’s vice-president Claudia…
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The mining and trading of crypto assets in China has experienced a crackdown since mid-May. Financial institutions and payment companies were banned from providing services related to cryptocurrency transactions; and investors were warned against speculative crypto…
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In March 2021, Central Banking launched its fourth annual FinTech RegTech Global Awards to showcase some of the groundbreaking projects undertaken in the community. The results are revealed in the awards articles published in this…
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Monetary policy-makers in India face a dilemma in responding to the impact of spillovers from US monetary policy, a working paper published by the Bank for International Settlements finds. Shesadri Banerjee and Madhusudan Mohanty study…
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The Central Bank of Bolivia (BCB) announced on February 17 that the April 2020 IMF loan had been “arranged irregularly by the de facto government”. From November 2019 until November 2020, an interim government headed…
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The Federal Reserve of Cleveland released three short videos on June 21, explaining the basics of inflation through animated Lego figures. The three videos use a Lego toy-town setting – complete with a Lego Fed…
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An international group of archaeologists have discovered a missing piece in the story of human evolution. Excavations at the Israeli site of Nesher Ramla have recovered a skull that may represent a late-surviving example of…
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3/3 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: European External Action Service (EEAS) Deputy Secretary General Enrique Mora, Iranian Deputy at Ministry of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi and Iran’s ambassador to the U.N. nuclear watchdog Kazem Gharibabadi wait…
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After a busy year involving a rise in customers, a stock market debut and all the pressures that come with a global pandemic, the dating app Bumble recently announced that all staff would be given…
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The announcement that the Victorian and federal governments will build a 1,000-bed COVID quarantine hub at Mickleham in Melbourne’s north marks a welcome end, or at least a fresh chapter, to the finger-pointing over Australia’s…
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