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Optimising official reserve portfolios
Bank reserve managers require a modern, flexible approach to achieving the investment trinity of safety, liquidity and return. This strategy is typified by BlackRock’s model multi-asset portfolios, which use indexes as building blocks, maintain high…
Central Banking Awards 2016: Banknote and currency services provider of the year
Ahead of the third annual Central Banking awards evening, Central Banking Journal met with Peter Muehlfelder, head of business area security at Kurz, to discuss the areas of business that have contributed to their award success and their company's…
Sponsored feature: Defining the ‘new normal’ in China
Setting ambitious targets and reaching them fast has been essential for more than three decades. But this growth-at-any-cost push is now being replaced with what China’s leaders call the ‘new normal’
Central Banking Autumn Training Series 2014
More than 4,500 central bankers have attended the seminar-based training courses run by Central Banking Publications since 1999, and it’s not too late to book your place for the series that starts in Cambridge on September 9th.
Renminbi as a reserve currency
China’s renminbi is gaining traction as a global currency, which will pave the way for a multiple global reserve currency system. Discussed here by John Zhu, economist, Greater China, HSBC
Evaluating enhancements to reserve management
David Smart, managing director of strategic advisory, sovereign & institutional funds, Franklin Templeton Solutions, discusses developments in reserve management over the past 25 years
The reorientation of central bank policy objectives
In this sponsored feature, Peter Warburton and Joanna Davies discuss how the policy challenges for central banks have been transformed in the aftermath of the global financial crisis
Should central banks review their investment guidelines as monetary policy normalises?
Central Banking editor Chris Jeffery talks to Charles Goodhart, Tim Young and Scott Dickinson about the strategies reserve managers can deploy ahead of a tightening in monetary policy
Technology: What are the risks and challenges faced by central banks?
Central Banking speaks to Ken Knowles, executive vice-president product management at OpenLink, about how central banks are changing the way they use technology to manage risk.
Making central banks legitimate
As unelected bodies, central banks should concern themselves with the grounds for the legitimacy, says Frank Vibert