Every two months IREF publishes a Newsletter on Financial and Banking Features that are affecting the EU.
They are authored by IREF Senior Fellows Gordon Kerr and John Butler, with Enrico Colombatto, experts with first-hand insight into financial markets and their interplay with government policy.
Post Brexit, Sterling weakens. Brexit will retest Central Banks’ Firepower. Will Scotland’s Resurgent Independence Campaign Want to Keep the Pound? The reaction of financial markets to the Brexit vote was…
Central Banking Brexit Fervour Underscores the Weakness of Economic Forecasting. Increasingly Outlandish Economic Arguments on Both Sides of the Brexit Debate. The Bank of England’s intervention is questionable. As apolitical…
Central Banking – Embracing the Blockchain In a recent speech, Bank of England deputy governor Ben Broadbent opined that the key innovation underlying Bitcoin is not the unit of account…
Central Banking The European Commission accepts that EU law requires accounts to provide a “true and fair view” of assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss as specific indicators…
Central Banking Bank share prices recover after further falls early February. However, credibility of ECB increasingly questioned as it considers further expansionary policies. Fears of a renewed banking crisis, which…
Jittery January Markets – Does the ECB have Contingency Plans? The ECB must be aware that investors’ confidence in stock markets, particularly bank shares, dropped in January. If contingency plans…
Central Banking – The Bank for International Settlements again Questions Prevailing Central Bank Policies. The BIS has recently published two reports. In one, appearing to embrace the Austrian School of…
Problems executing QE cause market confidence in the ECB to dip. What policy changes should we expect from the ECB in 2016?
Reports from the European Banking Authority and Bank of England claim that banks are healthy, but weak measures of capital are used.
US regulations blamed for banks turning away deposits. Will this add further impetus to non-banking deposit and payment businesses?
Even More Bad news from Deutsche Bank. Can the Bank be Turned Around?
Despite abundant and increasing evidence of loose monetary policies being the cause of emerging market economies moving from boom to bust, there are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
Central Bankers want to abolish cash in order to be able to set substantially negative interest rates.
