Bangladesh Bank
RBI extends Sri Lanka swap line
Island nation defaulted amid debt, currency and balance of payment crises
Currency services: De La Rue
Printing doyen expanded capacity, functionality and market share amid corporate turnaround
People: Chile appoints new central bank director
BoJ set to gain new policy board members; RBA names new head of banking; and more
People: Chilean Senate confirms board member
Plus senior appointments in New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and more
Book notes: The pay off, by Gottfried Leibbrandt and Natasha de Terán
A timely introduction to and accessible survey of payment system developments
Bangladesh Bank intervenes over commercial lender
Central bank prohibits new loans and oversees appointments, saying it has found "irregularities"
People: new deputy governor at Bank of Greece
Vice-presidents appointed at Cleveland and Richmond Feds; former Dominican Republic governor dies
People: Bangladesh appoints deputy; Elderson has bumpy ride
Bangladesh Bank names new deputy; Elderson passes EU parliament vote despite opposition
At least 50 Bangladesh Bank officials test positive for Covid-19
Employee council asks governor to consider changing working arrangements to rotate staff
Bangladeshi governor’s term extended amid pandemic crisis
IMF approves aid worth 50% of Bangladesh’s quota and says country faces major challenges
Payments and market infrastructure development: European Central Bank
The ECB has created a framework to help payments and market infrastructure firms bolster cyber defence that is being disseminated on a global scale
Bangladesh central bank to wind down allegedly “corrupt” finance firm
Central bank report claims management stole large sums from depositors
New York Fed to help Bangladesh Bank chase down stolen funds
Two years on from the heist, the organisations have signed a “technical assistance” agreement
Bangladesh Bank eyes national savings imbalances
Growth is high and inflation “contained”, but high-yield products are draining deposits from banks
The battle for cyber resilience
The cyber attack on Bangladesh Bank prompted central banks around the world to change their approach and refocus on contingency planning, but are they ready now?
People: Pakistan and Uzbekistan appoint deputies; Bangladesh Bank names new chief economist
Jameel Ahmad promoted to deputy role at Pakistan central bank; former IMF mission chief appointed as chief economist at Bangladeshi central bank
Swift rolls out new cyber defences for central banks
System uses machine learning to spot patterns and anomalies, so central banks and other institutions can act early on suspicious transactions
North Korea linked to Bangladesh Bank heist
North Korean IP address used in theft, claims Russian cyber-security firm; hacker group Lazarus’ fascination with financial gain “relatively new”
Researchers dig further into ‘Lazarus’ cyber attacks
Latest effort to crack case of cyber criminals unearths “fairly sophisticated” mechanism to target banks and regulators, and less sophisticated efforts to mislead investigators
‘Lazarus’ hackers seek fresh targets via regulator websites
Group linked to Bangladesh Bank hacks may have compromised the website of the Polish FSA, using it to spread malware in a “watering hole attack”
Swift users attacked again by new malware – research
Cyber security firm finds Swift users are being attacked by a second hacking group, using malware that manipulates logs and messages, removing them from client systems
People: Turkish deputy appointed; Dominican Republic governor and deputy to serve again
Former HSBC and Citigroup banker joins the ranks of the Central Bank of Turkey; long-standing Dominican Republic governor and deputy invited to serve again; and more
Swift's Gottfried Leibbrandt on restoring trust in global payments after $81m Bangladesh fraud
Swift CEO Gottfried Leibbrandt speaks to Christopher Jeffery about how to restore trust in the international payments architecture following the $81 million cyber theft from Bangladesh Bank
Swift CEO gives network top marks despite Bangladesh Bank theft
‘No room’ for complacency says Leibbrandt, noting it is now up to the banks to upscale their security infrastructure