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Low term premia push bank maturity gap to 5.7 years
A San Francisco Fed working paper shows U.S. bank maturity mismatch more than tripled since the mid-1980s to 5.7 years in 2022.
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Portugal public capital loss creates 1.4 percent GDP growth drag
A St. Louis Fed study shows Portugal's public capital stock fell 13.3 percent between 2013 and 2024, shrinking the capital-to-GDP ratio from 77.2 to 53.8 percent.
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321 bottleneck products threaten Japanese manufacturing output
A Bank of Japan study analyzing 105,481 transaction relationships across 15,022 firms reveals that 321 bottleneck products pose severe macroeconomic risks.
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Downstream investment and focal firm pay drive supply chain spending
A Bank of Japan working paper finds that firm spending behavior in Japanese manufacturing is tightly linked along supply chains.
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Only eight of 43 supervisors operate fully integrated IT platforms
A Bank for International Settlements survey of 43 financial authorities reveals that only eight have fully integrated their supervisory information systems.
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Shift to domestic debt raises African interest burdens to 14 percent
African economies face mounting debt service burdens as higher interest rates on domestic currency borrowing offset recent fiscal gains.
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Quantum technology to break bank encryption in years, Yuen warns
HKMA Deputy Chief Executive Arthur Yuen urged banks to prepare for quantum computing risks and adopt post-quantum cryptography.
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Panetta warns structural shifts complicate policy transmission
Banca d'Italia Governor Fabio Panetta warned that geopolitical fragmentation, energy shocks and artificial intelligence are altering monetary policy transmission.
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Mnisi warns of oil price risks as Namibia leaves FATF grey list
Central Bank of Eswatini Governor Phil Mnisi opened the Common Monetary Area Governors Meeting by highlighting Namibia's removal from the FATF grey list on June 19, 2026.
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Internal ombudsmen must focus on fair outcomes, Swaminathan says
Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor Swaminathan J urged banks and regulated entities to empower their internal ombudsmen and focus on fair complaint resolution rather than technical closure.
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Nagel targets 2027 digital euro pilot and capital market unification
Deutsche Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel called for rapid execution of the EU savings and investments union and confirmed a planned mid-2027 pilot phase for the digital euro.
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Irish fund assets reach 5.6 trillion euros as oversight tightens
The Central Bank of Ireland has published a supervisory review of delegation practices across 121 fund management companies managing 5.6 trillion euros in assets.