BoE study suggests digital pound would be less private than cash – Central Banking End of drawer navigation content Skip to main content Report, conducted with MIT, says cryptographic techniques would not guarantee privacy A…
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Gregory Makoff, Default: the landmark court battle over Argentina’s $100 billion debt restructuring, Georgetown University Press, 2024, 320 pages This is a fascinating book about the largest sovereign default in recent history: Argentina’s decision to…
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Andrey Gurov has praised the ruling by a Bulgarian court that annulled his suspension as deputy governor of the central bank. In a decision published on December 11, judge Boryana Petkova found the commission’s argument…
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Central banks ‘too slow’ on wholesale CBDCs, industry says – Central Banking End of drawer navigation content Skip to main content Report emphasises need for greater public-private collaboration and unified definition Market participants are “frustrated”…
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Alpana Killawala, A fly on the RBI wall: an insider’s view of the central bank, Rupa Publications, India, 2024, 232 pages When I suggested a review of this book to the editor at Central Banking…
Read MoreCentral Banking has named five new members – from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe – to its advisory board. The new members are: James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis…
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Most of New Zealand’s citizens worry that introducing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) will infringe on their privacy, a consultation by the country’s central bank has found. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ)…
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CNB to set up new research and statistics department – Central Banking End of drawer navigation content Skip to main content Central bank says restructuring will boost its ability to “analyse and model economic trends”…
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South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir has dismissed James Alic Garang as governor of the central bank and appointed his immediate predecessor, Johnny Ohisa Damian, to take over. The decision, which was announced last night (December…
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A survey by economists from the World Bank and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) finds central banks to be split over the merits of introducing fast payment systems (FPSs) and retail central bank digital…
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