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    Mastercard’s Vocalink hit by £11.9mn fine for risk management failings

    Bank of England imposes its first ever penalty against a provider of financial markets infrastructure

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  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
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  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
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  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
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    ECB officials question whether euro has strengthened too much

    Policymakers at central bank fret that a surging currency increases the risk of inflation undershooting

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  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
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    China’s central bank seeks European lenders’ advice on low interest rates

    People’s Bank of China asks for tips on fighting ‘Japanification’ amid low inflation

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  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
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  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Martin Wolf
    The risks of funding states via casinos

    It is easy to imagine conditions in which money simply dries up, perhaps in response to large movements in bond yields

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  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
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    Powell signals openness to July US interest rate cut

    Fed chair has been under relentless pressure from Donald Trump to lower borrowing costs

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  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Gilts
    Gilts rally as Bailey hints at reduction in BoE debt sales

    Central bank has come under pressure to slow quantitative tightening amid global bond sell-off

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  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
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    A week of central bank communication horror shows Premium content

    US contemplates the potential disaster of a shadow Fed chair and the ECB gets too cocky

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  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Eurozone inflation
    Eurozone inflation rises to ECB’s 2% target

    Interest rates expected to be kept on hold at central bank’s next meeting after June reading

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  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    Eurozone inflation
    ‘Supply shocks’ threaten fight against inflation, warns ECB’s Lagarde 

    Structural shifts such as AI and geopolitical fragmentation make world more volatile, says central bank

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  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
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  • Sunday, 29 June, 2025
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    Central banks warned to stay on inflation alert

    BIS says households scarred by pandemic still expect prices to rise sharply in coming year

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  • Saturday, 28 June, 2025
    US interest rates
    Traders bet on rate cuts from Powell’s successor at the Fed

    Donald Trump’s criticism of central bank chair has fuelled expectations of a dovish shift once he leaves in May next year

    Jay Powell departs after speaking to reporters following the Federal Reserve’s decision to leave interest rates unchanged at the Federal Reserve in Washington on June 18 2025
  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    US politics & policy
    Trump says he will only pick Fed chair who cuts rates

    US president renews attack on Jay Powell and says borrowing costs should fall to 1%

    Donald Trump, centre, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on June 27 2025
  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    Gillian Tett
    Gold glitters as mistrust spreads

    Calls for European governments to repatriate the bullion they store in the US are a sign of something bigger

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  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    EU economy
    ECB beat inflation without heavy economic costs, says departing hawk

    Veteran Dutch policymaker says central bank would have taken ‘more pain’ to tackle post-pandemic price rises if it had to

    Klaas Knot
  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    Bank of England
    BoE urged to curb bond sales investors say could ‘reignite’ sell-off

    ‘Quantitative tightening’ is driving up borrowing costs and piling pressure on public finances, according to fund managers

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  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Federal Reserve
    White House says decision on nominating next Fed chair not ‘imminent’

    US dollar fell after report that Donald Trump could name nominee to succeed Jay Powell as soon as this summer

    Jay Powell in a composite image with a background of US dollar notes and the Federal Reserve seal
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Hong Kong Monetary Authority
    Hong Kong intervenes to defend currency peg

    Monetary authority sells US dollars to maintain trading band for local currency

    A general view of Two International Finance Centre (IFC), HSBC headquarters and Bank of China in Hong Kong, China
  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    The Bank of England isn’t sure

    Using cutting-edge language analysis techniques and quantitative reasoning, we prove nothing

  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    Chris Giles on Central Banks
    The dangers of stablecoins Premium content

    They are no substitute for money, even if usage is growing fast

    The headquarters of the Bank for International Settlements
  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    Stablecoins
    Stablecoins ‘perform poorly’ as money, central banks warn

    BIS says they fail crucial tests for a sound currency and are exploited by criminals

    A gold plated souvenir cryptocurrency Tether (USDT) coin arranged beside a screen displaying a trading chart
  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    Taiwan warms up to a SWF

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