Jeremy Green, The political economy of the special relationship: Anglo-American development from the gold standard to the financial crisis, Princeton University Press, 2020, 368 pages On the eve of World War I, London’s financial markets…
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The Central Bank of Argentina The Argentine government reimposed currency controls on September 1, in a bid to stem capital outflows and the abrupt depreciation of the peso. In a statement, the Central Bank of…
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In the years that preceded the financial crisis, central banks around the world were given additional tools to help maintain the stability of the financial system. Among them was forward guidance – a new communication…
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Sveriges Riksbank published a set of proposals on June 8 designed to improve public scrutiny of its policies. The text – authored by governor Stefan Ingves and deputy head of the general secretariat Pernilla Meyersson…
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The European Central Bank profits in 2020 declined by 30% in comparison with 2019, mainly due to lower returns on its US dollar portfolio. The ECB profit fell to €1.6 billion ($1.93 billion), from €2.4…
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Regulator’s priorities will include climate risk disclosures and financial sector diversity by : Source link
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The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has opened a consultation on measures to increase the ethnic and gender diversity of stock exchange listed firms’ boards, by asking for responses on whether it should mandate such firms…
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Blockchain technology proved able to process hundreds of thousands of instant transactions in a digital euro experiment carried out by eurozone national central banks. The exercise was part of the preliminary work leading up to…
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Robert Binder, Daniel Kämmerer and Daniel Münch of BearingPoint RegTech explore the architectural principles crucial for successful supervisory technology – or SupTech – applications, and examine the future of regulatory reporting in this context, with the flexibility…
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The Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion stimulus is likely to trigger spillovers worldwide and could strengthen the case for the Bank of England to ease policy further, Hélène Rey said on March 8. Rey, a professor of…
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