Book contributions by Nick Carver
HSBC Reserve Management Trends 2022
Edited by Robert Pringle and Nick Carver
HSBC Reserve Management Trends 2021
Edited by Robert Pringle and Nick Carver
HSBC Reserve Management Trends 2020
Edited by Robert Pringle and Nick Carver
HSBC Reserve Management Trends 2019
Edited by Robert Pringle and Nick Carver
HSBC Reserve Management Trends 2018
Edited by Robert Pringle and Nick Carver
Articles by Nick Carver
Trends in reserve management 2021: survey results
Results of the 17th annual Reserve Management Trends survey of reserve managers conducted in February and March 2021
Finland’s Ilves on ESG and the impact of Covid-19 on reserves
Nick Carver speaks to the Bank of Finland’s head of asset management, Jarno Ilves, as part of HSBC’s Reserve Management Trends 2021
Gold reserves in central banks – 2020 survey results
Reserve managers share their views on future gold holdings, target allocations, purchasing and storage approaches, the use of ETFs, and the impact of Covid-19, in the results of a new joint Central Banking-Invesco survey. By Nick Carver and Robert Pringle
Asset management: outlook for 2019
Monetary policy divergence, fears over protectionism and ESG are shaping reserve managers’ approach to 2019
Book notes: GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History, by Diane Coyle
A whistle-stop tour of the development of GDP, a workhorse of economic modelling and analysis
Sarb’s Marais hails 'smooth rollout' of onshore renminbi programme
South African Reserve Bank trading government bonds, T-bills and bank bonds; deputy head of reserves hails support from PBoC on operational aspects of trading
Uganda eyes short-term foreign liabilities as reserves measure
Deputy governor Louis Kasekende says Bank of Uganda has begun to track reserves levels against short-term foreign liabilities such as portfolio outflows; details how QE has hit reserves income
Trinidad and Tobago SWF set to gain corporate status
Incorporation will enable Heritage and Stabilisation Fund to hire staff and build capacity, says chairman Ralph Henry; ‘decent’ returns this year, he says
Interview: Harry Newman
Swift’s head of market initiatives for Europe, Middle East and Africa explains how its new RTGS back-up, the new Market Infrastructure Resiliency Service, will work
Interview: George Milling-Stanley
As George Milling-Stanley leaves his role as managing director, government affairs at the World Gold Council, he summarises gold market trends and its role in central banks' reserve portfolios
ECB could offer governance concession on T2S
European Central Bank could modify governance arrangements of its settlement platform in a bid to entice sterling to join
EPC chairman 'shocked' at Brussels' 'competing' Sepa schemes
European Payments Council chair slams European Commission's willingness to allow operation of multiple, national Sepa schemes; says plan would thwart aims of Sepa
ECB announces baseline T2S price of €0.15
Settlement platform’s Programme Board proposes to fix fee for settlement until 2018; price not dependent on UK volumes, says ECB
Global payment volumes grow 9%
Payments withstand financial crisis, spurred by surge in non-cash payments in some developing countries
Fed and Equens open transatlantic payment channel
Federal Reserve-operated ACH and Dutch-German payments processor connect US to 22 countries in Europe for low-value payments in dollars, euros and sterling
Obituary: Peter Allsopp
Visionary reformer whose analysis and powers of persuasion changed financial market infrastructure worldwide
BoK bristles at government presence during rate-setting vote
Bank of Korea governor Kim Choong Soo calls for change in government involvement in monetary-policy meetings; tensions threaten to escalate into full-blown row
CentralBanking.com panel: it’s too soon to exit
Charles Goodhart, Paul Mortimer-Lee, Lucrezia Reichlin and Gabriel Stein concur that dangers are greater from exiting too early than too late but warn that asset prices risk becoming over inflated
Crisis calls for more active regulation : MAS head
Monetary Authority of Singapore's Heng Swee Keat calls for central banks to examine business models and strategies
Eurosystem compiles cards ‘Doomsday’ book
Oversight report on major card schemes planned for release next year
ECB's Tumpel-Gugerell confident of adding sterling to T2S
Tumpel-Gugerell believes Bank of England can be convinced to participate in pan-European securities-settlement platform
Liquidity lessons from the crisis
Daniel Heller, the head of the Basel-based CPSS, discusses propsoed reforms for payments, clearing and settlements
Smee on speedier payments
The chief executive of APACS discusses the UK’s first National Payments Plan and the impact of the new Faster Payments service