The Central Bank of Brazil (BCB) has cut rates for the first time in nearly two years, kickstarting a long-anticipated easing ...

Governors serving in smaller central banks tend to earn slightly less than colleagues in larger institutions, the Governance ...

The adoption of central bank digital currency (CBDC) is proving to be just as challenging, if not more so, than its ...

March 19, 2026Central Banking is pleased to announce the fourth tranche of winners of the Central Banking Awards 2026, its 13th ...

The bank’s president Christine Lagarde presented the decision at a press conference, where she said the Middle East conflict was likely to push up average headline inflation to 2.6% in 2026, 2% in ...

The Bank of England held its policy rate at 3.75% today (March 19) and said the conflict in the Middle East had damaged the UK’s economic outlook and shifted the bank’s inflation forecasts. The ...

The fourth group of winners of the Central Banking Awards 2025 was unveiled today (March 19), with the digital transformation award going to Bank of Mexico and currency manager to the Central Bank of ...

The payments company’s digital central infrastructure has played a key role in Colombia’s Bre-B roll-out as well as elsewhere ...

The Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten (CBCS) oversees a monetary union formed between two countries that are almost 1,000 kilometres apart, which uphold different languages, cultures, customs ...

At a press conference following a meeting today (March 19) of its executive board, SNB governor Martin Schlegel said the conflict in the Middle East had increased inflationary pressures, though this ...

The Bank of Japan kept rates steady at 0.75% as expected today (March 18), while warning of increased inflation risks as a result of the conflict in the Middle East. In a statement, the BoJ said its ...

It was this need for resilience that led the Bank of Mexico (Banxico) to migrate two of its core systems for market operations to a decentralised, ‘living’ architecture. Autonomous Decentralized ...