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Makhlouf: Europe needs genuine single market for capital
Gabriel Makhlouf, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, advocated for a more ambitious European Single Market, emphasizing the need for genuine integration in goods, services, and capital.
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Mauritius raises policy rate 25bp as inflation outlook worsens
The Bank of Mauritius' Monetary Policy Committee unanimously raised the policy rate by 25 basis points on May 20, 2026.
Bunge outlines AI's impact on economy and monetary policy
Riksbank Deputy Governor Aino Bunge discussed how artificial intelligence can influence the economy and monetary policy in the longer term.
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Koeda: Middle East risks cloud Japan's outlook
Bank of Japan Policy Board Member Junko Koeda highlighted geopolitical risks from the Middle East as a key factor influencing Japan's economic activity and prices.
Project Agorá prototype enhances cross-border payments with DLT
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Institute of International Finance (IIF) led Project Agorá, a public-private collaboration exploring tokenisation and programmability to enhance wholesale cross-border payments.
Breeden outlines UK vision for tokenised money and markets
Sarah Breeden, Deputy Governor for Financial Stability at the Bank of England, outlined the UK's vision for modernising money and markets through tokenisation.
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Tokenisation improves cross-border payments, Agorá moves to real-value tests
Project Agorá, a public-private collaboration led by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), has demonstrated how tokenisation can address long-standing inefficiencies in wholesale cross-border payments.
Middle East conflict complicates RBA inflation outlook
Sarah Hunter, Assistant Governor (Economic) at the Reserve Bank of Australia, discussed the RBA's inflation framework and the outlook in the context of the ongoing Iran conflict.
UI generosity raises wages for all worker types
A Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland working paper estimates the effects of unemployment insurance generosity on wages.
LCR regulation lowers bank funding costs, especially for long-term debt
A new Bank for International Settlements (BIS) working paper establishes a causal link between liquidity regulation and lower bank wholesale funding costs.
Uncertainty measures improve recession forecasting
Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis find that economic uncertainty measures significantly enhance real-time recession forecasting.
Study refines Phillips Curve with monopsonistic wage-setting
A new working paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland introduces firms' monopsonistic wage-setting into a standard DSGE model.