11th BdF-BoE-BdI International Macroeconomics Workshop: “Fault Lines in the International Macro Landscape”
This edition focuses on emerging and evolving risks facing the global economy. We invite theoretical and empirical…
Banks from France, UAE queue up at Gift City
Till March 2022, there were only 15 IBUs in Gift City. The numbers have more than doubled in…
Symposium: Cash important for all of society
Bundesbank Executive Board member Burkhard Balz has spoken out in favour of a future that includes cash: Let us…
Reeves will hope weaker wage growth enables more interest rate cuts | Economics
The downturn in the UK’s jobs market appears to be gathering pace, but the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, will…
Stop paying lenders interest says Reform
At the heart of the row is the interest paid on nearly £700 billion in reserves held by…
Slower April wage growth to feed into interest rate cut hopes
Bank of England officials are expected to cut interest rates another two times this year. An expected drop…
Kadena issues first grant from $25M real estate tokenization fund in Bank of England pilot
Public PoW blockchain Kadena makes its first capital deployment from a $50 million grants program, backing UK startup…
Banca Sella becomes the first bank in Italy and Europe to use a QR Code for blind and visually impaired people
Banca Sella becomes the first bank in Italy and Europe to use a QR Code for blind and…
Banque de France Conference on Monetary Policy 2025
Central banks in advanced economies are striking a delicate balance in normalizing monetary policy amid heightened uncertainty about…
Hedge funds circle distressed French private equity-owned companies
Hedge funds are circling more than a dozen distressed companies in France, as a string of economic shocks…
Volume of counterfeits in Germany up again
The Bundesbank registered roughly 72,400 counterfeit euro banknotes in German payments in 2024. Thus, the number of counterfeits…
Nagel says Europe needs digital currency for ‘sovereignty’
Europe should introduce a digital currency – both for retail and wholesale use – as a sovereign instrument…