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24 central banks will have digital currencies by 2030: BIS survey

The past 18 months have seen turmoil in the crytpo market, including the failure of TerraUSD, an unbacked stablecoin, in May 2022, the collapse of crytpo exchange FTX in November and the bankruptcy of banks such as Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, which serviced crypto providers.




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Taming the Global Financial Cycle: Central Banks and the Sterilization of Capital Flows in the First Era of Globalization (1891-1913) [electronic journal].




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Should central banks be forward-looking? [electronic journal].




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Central Banks Going Long [electronic journal].




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Central banks bet big on gold as global uncertainty lingers

In fact, central banks accounted for 23 per cent of the overall gold demand at 1,238 tonnes in the March quarter



  • Gold & Silver

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Gold prices may rule firm if central banks continue to buy, says World Gold Council

The yellow metal outlook looks strong: Sachin Jain, Regional CEO of WGC



  • Gold & Silver

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Globally, central banks plan to add more gold to reserves in 2024

Apex banks’ confidence in the dollar low; high prices for the yellow metal may affect demand in India



  • Gold & Silver

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With 7.45 lakh followers, RBI most popular among central banks on Twitter

With the microblogging site emerging as a key platform for information dissemination, many central banks are active on Twitter, especially in these times of economic uncertainties amid the coronavirus pandemic.




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Asia shares mixed, eyeing economies reopening, central banks


TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mixed Tuesday as governments inch toward letting businesses reopen and central banks step in to provide cash to economies. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 lost earlier gains, dipping 0.4% to 19,706.19. South Korea’s Kospi stood virtually unchanged, inching down less than 0.1% to 1,921.39. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.2% to […]




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Central banks get together

The world's central banks are back. They're taking collective action again - all for one and one for all. They learned back in December that co-ordinated action works better than individual action. In any case, moving together at least prevents...



  • Notes on Real Life

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The expectations on central banks are simply too great

Original quotes from interview with Mr Claudio Borio, Head of the Monetary and Economic Department of the BIS, in Germany's Boerzen-Zeitung, conducted by Mr Mark Schroers and published on 21 November 2019.




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The future of money and the payment system: what role for central banks?

Lecture by Mr Agustín Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, at the Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 5 December 2019.




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No global real estate market despite higher price synchronisation and growing role of international investors, central banks find

No global real estate market despite higher price synchronisation and growing role of international investors, central banks find (Press release, 18 February 2020)




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Fin24.com | Central banks must be careful not to get sucked into fiscal policy - Kganyago

The economic meltdown has seen the world's leading central bankers including the South African Reserve Bank come under pressure to bail out their respective economies in the form of interest rate cuts. They've been urged to fund governments, an idea that central bank governor, Lesetja Kganyago, says is tantamount to a client instructing their banker to do the same.




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BOJ’s monetary easing lags behind U.S. and European central banks

Monetary easing measures adopted by the Bank of Japan lack boldness.




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Central banks prop up fund industry with $100bn injection

Fitch says scale of support points to the systemic importance of $55tn asset management market




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Lockdown eases, central banks, oil, pharma and tech earnings

Start every week on the front foot with a preview of what’s on the global agenda




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Central banks ‘hesitant’ on digital currencies, says ex-governor

Christian Noyer believes projects available to consumers are a way off yet