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Fintech Benchmarks 2025 report – supervising security
Benchmarks highlight how technological advancement needs to go hand in hand with tougher security
Central banks split on whether CBDC will impact seigniorage
Some respondents see seigniorage depending on CBDC design choices
Central banks widely exploring RTGSs’ interoperability with CBDCs
High income institutions more likely to research the issue than their middle income counterparts
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Half of institutions have a central data collection centre
Respondents with data collection system more likely to automate regulatory filings
Risk Management Benchmarks 2025 report – mind the techno-political gap
Responses show central banks’ shifting priorities as volatility increases
Inter-bank working groups
Facilitating connections between central bankers across the globe to promote the exchange of expertise and support collaboration.
Upcoming meetings include: Cyber risk management, social media in communications and upgrading forecast models.
Model banks
Risk Management Benchmarks 2025 – model banks analysis
Economics Benchmarks 2024 – model banks analysis
Currency Benchmarks 2024 – model banks analysis
Reserve Benchmarks 2024 – model banks analysis
Financial Stability Benchmarks 2024 – model banks analysis
Monetary Policy Benchmarks 2024 – model banks analysis
Payments Benchmarks 2024 – model banks analysis
Communications Benchmarks 2024 – model banks analysis
Governance Benchmarks 2024 – model banks analysis
Fintech Benchmarks 2024 – model banks analysis
Risk Management Benchmarks 2024 – model banks analysis
Economics Benchmarks 2023 – model banks analysis
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Key model elements
Former Fed chair Ben Bernanke urged the Bank of England to make several enhancements to its main forecast model in his 2024 review. Though the elements would add much realism to the model, benchmarking data shows that in most areas, his proposals are only in use at a handful of central banks.
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Reports
Fintech Benchmarks 2025 report – supervising security
Risk Management Benchmarks 2025 report – mind the techno-political gap
Economics Benchmarks 2024 report – making models work
Currency Benchmarks 2024 report – securing cash payments
Reserve Benchmarks 2024 report – the challenge of diversification
Financial Stability Benchmarks 2024 report – seeking sounder banks
Monetary Policy Benchmarks 2024 report – back to normality?
Payments Benchmarks 2024 report – towards tokenisation
Communications Benchmarks 2024 report – emerging trends
Governance Benchmarks 2024 report – central banks’ core processes
Fintech Benchmarks 2024 report – the promise and threat of AI
Risk Management Benchmarks 2024 report – tech and turbulence
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Flexibility and business continuity seen as key benefits of cloud services
But three in four fintech teams point at privacy as concern
Central banks more likely to use software-based cloud services
Cloud widely used for cyber security and other applications
AI spreads further among fintech teams
Centralised fintech teams more likely to apply AI/ML to sentiment analysis
Half of planned CBDCs designed to be programmable
Two-thirds of wholesale CBDCs likely to be programmable