Debt Management

Changes to RBNZ's Bond Lending Facility

In consultation with the New Zealand Debt Management Office, The Reserve Bank of New Zealand announced Friday 21 July that, as from Monday, it will make the following changes to its Bond Lending Facility.

RBA paper on optimal monetary policy

The RBA Discussion Paper "Optimal monetary policy with real-time signal extraction from the bond market" sets up a model where the central bank uses real-time data from the bond market together with standard macroeconomic indicators to estimate the…

Israel's Fischer on The Paris Club at Fifty

In the speech 'The Paris Club at Fifty' given on 14 June Stanley Fischer of the Bank of Israel said the Paris Club has become concerned that countries that have received debt relief are borrowing heavily from other official lenders, who are not members…

HKMA's Choi on the debt market of Hong Kong

In the speech 'The debt market of Hong Kong - What can we offer to investors?' given on 13 June Y.K. Choi of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority said there are a few fundamental factors which make Hong Kong an ideal place for the bond market.

Comment:Government debt offices gear up for change

Government debt offices play a vital role in managing the cost and risk of government borrowing and in the development of the domestic financial system, but they are frequently overlooked. A recent survey looks at the trends towards concentrated…

New York Fed's Foreign Exchange Operations Report

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Treasury and Federal Reserve Foreign Exchange Operations quarterly report for January-March 2006, published 4 May, the U.S. monetary authorities did not intervene in the foreign exchange markets during…

Joint external debt website launched

The Bank for International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and the World Bank announced on Thursday 30 March that they are jointly launching a new website.

NY Fed welcomes derivatives commitments

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said on Monday 13 March it welcomes the new commitments by 14 major market participants to continue their progress toward improving the infrastructure that supports the credit derivatives markets.

China considering expansion of HK yuan business

The Chinese government may allow Hong Kong companies to issue yuan-denominated bonds and settle trade transactions using the yuan, in order to expand yuan business in the city, Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of China (PBoC) said, according…

Comment: Zimbabwe's mystery repayment

Two weeks ago the Zimbabwean government managed to avoid expulsion from the IMF by paying off a large chunk of its debt to the Fund. However, the source of the forex-depleted government's finances remains a mystery.

Comment: Indonesia and the IMF

The Indonesian finance minister, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, has indicated that the country is considering the early repayment of its outstanding debt to the IMF. The prospect of early repayment raises some interesting questions and policymakers are likely to…

Developing corporate bond markets in Asia

Thirty participants including high-level officials from central banks in Asia and the Pacific, the European Central Bank and the BIS took part in the BIS/PBC seminar held in Kunming, China on 17-18 November 2005.

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