The Nigerian central bank’s recent reforms to open market operations (OMOs) and discount window restrictions are aimed at enhancing monetary policy transmission, its acting director of financial ...

The Central Bank of Brazil (BCB) has wound down two lenders in the Simpala group. In a statement on August 14, the BCB said the organisations had exposed their “unsecured creditors” to excessive risk ...

The UK’s fiscal situation will place severe constraints on its new prime minister, two former members of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee have told Central Banking. And how his ...

The reverse stress test revealed that solvency-liquidity interactions generally are not well-captured in many banks’ ...

The messages sent by central banks rarely reach the public directly, unlike newspaper narratives about these communications, ...

Venezuela plans to focus on retrieving its gold assets held at the Bank of England (BoE) to support the country’s recovery after it was hit by two major earthquakes in June. Venezuela’s interim ...

In the minutes to their interest rate decision on August 5, the Central Bank of Brazil’s (BCB) monetary policy committee, known as Copom, said it saw more evidence that its monetary policy stance was ...

Resolution requirements may cause banks to cut the supply of credit to the economy, research published by the Centre for Economic Policy Research finds. The discussion paper, published on August 10, ...

According to a statement published by the fund on August 11, the agreement is still subject to approval by the IMF executive board in September. The programme aims to reconcile Guinea’s fiscal ...

A senior source at the Central Bank of Libya has said its governor has set out three main conditions for withdrawing his resignation, according to media reports. In two documents seen by Reuters, ...

The Economics Benchmarks 2026 show that economics departments at central banks are feeling the impact of artificial intelligence more than ever. They are also increasingly adopting the technology ...

The former central bank governor and premier of China, Zhu Rongji, who during his time in government oversaw a period of significant economic reform, has died. He was 97. The Chinese government ...