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February 1, 2024

Ben Bernanke’s brutal verdict on the Bank of England

...Ben Bernanke was brutally honest about the failings of the Bank of England’s economic modelling when he published a long-awaited review of its forecasting processes on Friday....

April 12, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

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The Bernanke review is only a starting point

...Few central banks have emerged from the past three years of inflation fighting with the same credibility they had before. The Bank of England has had a particularly hard time....

April 12, 2024

FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen

It’s central bank week!

...Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...

March 18, 2024

UK economy

Bracing for the Bank of England’s forecasting review

...Meanwhile, the Bank of England MPC consists of nine policy makers and a common staff....

April 5, 2024

Banks

The $1tn ‘hold-to-maturity’ sleight-of-accounting

...Instead of hedging the market value risk of bank asset declines, banks used accounting reclassification to diminish the impact of interest rate increases on book capital....

April 3, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive

Letter

Letter: Bank of England financial stability is an issue too

...In light of the Bernanke review of the economic forecasting methods that support monetary policy at the Bank of England, there would appear to be a strong case for a parallel independent review of the analytical...

April 17, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

The Bank of Japan’s tricky path to normalisation

...But on Tuesday, after eight years in the negative, the Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda pulled it off in smooth style....

March 20, 2024

FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen

Bank of Japan ditches negative rates

...Microsoft has hired the co-founder of Google’s DeepMind, the Bank of Japan raised interest rates for the first time since 2007, and leading European and UK artificial intelligence start-ups have been lobbied...

March 20, 2024

Major League Baseball

Baseball star Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter charged with bank fraud

...Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter was charged with bank fraud by the US Department of Justice, which accused him of wiring more than $16mn from the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball star’s bank account to pay...

April 11, 2024

Bank of Japan

Will the Bank of Japan finally raise interest rates?

...Kate Duguid Will the Bank of England hint at interest rate cuts?...

March 17, 2024

On Wall StreetWilliam Cohan

The bank argument on the Basel III endgame is bunk

...In the wake of three of the largest bank failures in US history a year ago, the US Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency are all pushing...

March 23, 2024

Central banks

What happens when a central bank runs out of money?

...Macro types simply love to chat about the prospect of central banks running out of money....

April 8, 2024

Instant InsightRobin Harding

The big test is yet to come for the Bank of Japan

...In its decision, the central bank proudly notes the prospect “that the price stability target of 2 per cent would be achieved in a sustainable and stable manner”....

March 19, 2024

ReviewFilm

The Miracle Club film review — Maggie Smith brings gritty severity to Lourdes pilgrimage comedy

...Ozark....

October 12, 2023

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

UK economy

The Bank of England is misusing its fiscal powers

...The Bank of England’s role is rarely visible, by design. The Bank is supposed to stay out of fiscal affairs....

February 29, 2024

UK economy

Unwinding British QE may end up costing £100bn. Could that have been avoided?

...This is not a proposal to weaken the independence of the Bank of England or modify its objectives....

March 26, 2024

Letter

Letter: Where the European Investment Bank is on the defensive

...Multilateral development banks such as the EIB perform due diligence to ensure the environmental, social and governance standards of the investments they support. What happens in the case of defence?...

March 1, 2024

Bank of England

Bank of England deputy governor calls for more research into non-bank lenders

...As global regulators’ fears over non banks have risen in recent years, parts of the industry have hit back at the prospect of being regulated like banks, arguing that they face distinct risks and perform...

February 26, 2024

FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen

What we learned from the collapse of SVB

...America’s regulators say new rules will help maintain the dominance of US Treasuries, and there are still weaknesses in regional banking a year after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank....

March 11, 2024

LexBank of Japan

Bank of Japan’s historic shift will boost local lenders Premium

...The Bank of Japan signalled the beginning of an end to its ultra-loose monetary policy by also removing its yield curve controls, a policy that caps the yields of 10-year Japanese government bonds....

March 19, 2024

Disrupted Times

UK economy improves but challenges remain for Sunak

...First-quarter profits at JPMorgan Chase rose 6 per cent, despite the bank paying an extra $725mn charge to cover the costs of last year’s regional bank failures....

April 12, 2024

Central banks

Psst, central bank nerds! Celebrate the rate cycle that was with this spicy ‘Done’ t-shirt

...Wearing it will demonstrate you appreciate the potentially humorous intersection between monetary policy and popular culture, while also covering some or all of your torso. And now, it can be yours....

April 10, 2024

News updates from March 18: Biden warns Rafah invasion would be ‘a mistake’; Nvidia unveils ‘superchip’

The week ahead: Bank of Japan to meet amid strong wage growth

...The headline acts will be the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England, but we will also have policy updates from (in no specific ranking order) China, Australia, Switzerland, Indonesia...

March 17, 2024

Chris Giles on Central Banks

Three errors in inflation control Premium

...It showed that the central bank employs many PhD researchers in the core areas of modelling, the majority of whom spend little or no time on the core function of the central bank....

April 16, 2024

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