After the ‘Maidan revolution’ of 2014, the National Bank of Ukraine abandoned the exchange rate peg to the US dollar and switched to a flexible exchange rate, which was later formalized within the framework of a newly adopted...
Over the next three years the heads of six governors central banks around the world will be replaced. Their successors will have face difficult challenges.
Ukrainian MPs are demanding the dismissal of the management and changes in the scope of responsibility of the central bank of Ukraine.
Governor Boštjan Jazbec entered his corner office on the first floor of Slovenia’s Central Bank (Banka Slovenije) and found himself surrounded by the criminal investigators from the National Investigation Office (Nacionalni...
Central banks have been entrusted with the task of developing and implementing measures for limiting systemic risk. They should cope with this task but if they don’t succeed, central banks are risking their credibility.
The worldwide debate on what kind of institution should exercise supervision of banks is intensifying as the role of central banks is rising throughout the world.
Despite the Hungarian Constitutional Court decision that the central bank of Hungary has to disclose information on invested funds not everything was published, and a new legislation is on its way.
Prof. Adam Glapiński has been officially sworn in by a lower house of the Polish parliament.
Slovak banks survived the European debt crisis with no need for any state aid and with sufficient capital levels.
It is fair to say that the euro crisis was a game-changer in our thinking about the viability of currency unions in general and euro accession in particular. I will try to be brief and get right to the point. I would like to...