The Bank of Japan’s government bond holdings peaked at nearly 77% of all outstanding issuances between 2015 and 2024, according to data analysed by its researchers.

Bruno Tiberto of the Central Bank of Brazil (BCB) has won this year’s Economics in central banking award, part of the second group of Central Banking Awards 2026 winners, unveiled today (March 12).

Analysts say the zig-zag pattern of markets in recent days reflects the fast-changing flow of news around the Middle East conflict, and that there are no signs – at least yet – of any emerging ...

Highly automated or digitally advanced sectors with greater “technology intensity” can have worse employment outcomes, economists at the Bank for International Settlements have said. Their paper, ...

Preparing for a crisis at central banks is tricky. Staff spend hours preparing for a resolution event that might never happen in their tenure at the organisation. But when a crisis hits, they may wish ...

The European Central Bank has unveiled more details about its longer-term strategy to leverage distributed ledger technology (DLT). The plans, published today (March 11), expand on the bank’s ...

Jerome Powell, chair of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, was named governor of the year today (March 10) ...

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In a speech today (March 9) at the Japanese Ministry of Finance in Tokyo, Kristalina Georgieva said that if the conflict were ...

In Tuesday’s post, Donald Trump – crucially – has come down on the side of crypto. “Americans should earn more money on their money. The Banks are hitting record profits, and we are not going to allow ...

A member of the Federal Reserve’s rate-setting committee has said the erosion of the central bank’s independence would ...

US president Donald Trump’s Genius Act was a defining policy in the new digital finance era. The Fintech Benchmarks 2026 ...