In a legal opinion published on December 2, the ECB wrote that the treaties governing the monetary union prohibit monetary financing. It added that “in the absence of any explanation as to the purpose ...

Federal Reserve governor Michelle Bowman and acting chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Travis Hill ...

The paper, published on December 2, finds that in countries where insurers hold more domestic bonds, the firms tend to dump a ...

The latest BIS bulletin, published on December 2, notes that hedge funds’ use of leveraged trading strategies has led regulators to come up with potential responses, such as imposing minimum haircuts ...

Guillermo Avellán has resigned as general manager of the Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE), a year and a half before his term had been due to expire.

On her second day as governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ), Anna Breman told a parliamentary committee on December 2 that she had not yet had the chance to meet all MPC members, but that ...

Around 60% of central bank communications are produced in local languages excluding English, while around 44% are produced in ...

Central banks are taking cautious steps towards adopting AI but have not prioritised research into its effects ...

Hungary’s central bank is to introduce a 1% sectoral systemic risk buffer (sSyRB) for real estate loans from January 1, 2026. The Central Bank of Hungary (MNB) first announced the measure when it ...

In its latest Financial Stability Report, published today (December 2), the BoE says it has cut the “appropriate benchmark” for the aggregate level of tier 1 capital lenders need to hold from 14% to ...

The driving factor behind the growth in stablecoins is their permissionless nature, new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York concludes. In a post published on November 25, authors Rod ...

Fiji’s central bank has launched a series of five new polymer banknotes that it says represent the country’s national ...