Interview
Filipe Dinis on Bank of Canada’s cyber strategy and tackling cyber risks
The Canadian central bank’s chief operating officer calls for heightened vigilance, more collaboration, info sharing and tabletop exercises, and less reliance on similar, siloed systems
Peter Nicholl on rebuilding Bosnia’s central bank
The former RBNZ deputy governor on how he tackled financial instability in the aftermath of a war
Project Ellipse: real-time data and the ‘art of the possible’
BIS’s Andrew McCormack and MAS’s Kenneth Gay talk about phase two of the suptech project
Markus Brunnermeier on the need for CBDCs
The Princeton academic says public digital currencies face pitfalls but are still needed
Diego Labat on policy normalisation, capital flows and tech challenges
Uruguay governor speaks about financialisation, flexible rates vs controls, payment upgrades and CBDCs
Podcast: fixing the gaps in fintech laws
Fintech is reshaping the financial system, but laws are not adapting so fast, say IMF lawyers
Pierre Wunsch on inflation, forward guidance and policy tightening
Belgium’s governor speaks about models, reversing unconventional policies and other challenges
Masaaki Shirakawa on lessons from crisis and how to reform central banks
Former governor reflects on a turbulent 40 years at the Bank of Japan
James Bullard on Fed policy, action and governance
St Louis president calls for tapering, quantifies AIT and details Congress’s role in Fed ethics
Larry Summers on stagflation risks, lessons from Delphi and never-ending ‘punch’
Ex-US Treasury head speaks about fiscal ‘overexpansion’, Fed/Treasury debt discord and ‘unknown unknowns’
Agustín Carstens on BIS strategic priorities, innovation and central bank policy
BIS chief speaks about policy trade-offs at a critical time, tech collaboration, tackling NBFIs and the dearth of ‘green’ assets
Why diversity matters for economic policy
The head of the Cleveland Fed's new Program for Economic Inclusion, Dionissi Aliprantis, explains why diversity should be an important factor in the US central bank's decision-making
Somalia’s governor on rebuilding its central bank
Governor Abdullahi discusses payments systems and reviving Somalia’s war-damaged economy
BIS’s Luiz Pereira on tackling the climate crisis
Deputy general manager highlights the challenge posed by radical uncertainty, the benefits of carbon budgeting, and the case for acting now
MAS’s Vincent Loy and Celine Sia on transforming data management
The assistant managing directors explain how uniting business and technology functions is opening up new possibilities for data collection, governance and analytics
Charles Goodhart on inflation targets, financial stability and the role of money
LSE professor says AIT a mistake, independence under threat amid inflation surge and climate stress tests unconvincing
A chemical engineer walks into a bank
Bank of Portugal’s Mónica Fernandes explains why it is just as important for central banks to employ scientists as to employ economists
Benoît Cœuré on CBDCs, stablecoins and central bank fintech co-operation
BIS Innovation Hub chief speaks about fintech risks for supervisors and monetary policy-makers, and hub development plans
Zhang Tao on the IMF’s fintech agenda, CBDCs and big tech oversight
IMF deputy MD speaks about the fund’s views on CBDC operating frameworks and macrofinancial surveillance
Mário Centeno on monetary-fiscal interaction in the eurozone
Bank of Portugal governor says ECB is not being overrun by former finance ministers, must improve the definition of its inflation target, and has no need for YCC
Kenneth Montgomery on the Fed’s progress with instant payments
The FedNow project leader explains how the US will develop ubiquitous, real-time payments
The changing data landscape: Part 2
Central Banking speaks to Philip Abradu-Otoo, Juan José Ospina and Howard Chang about whether there is a need to change underlying infrastructure to bolster data-driven policy-making
Ulrich Bindseil on the launch of the digital euro
ECB’s payments head speaks about the functionality, tiering and technology of the eurozone’s planned CBDC
The changing data landscape: Part 1
Central Banking speaks to Eyal Rozen, Ramūnas Baravykas and Wanpracha Chaovalitwongse about whether there is a need to change underlying infrastructure to bolster data-driven policy-making