As expected, the Bank of England today announced that the Official Bank Rate would remain unchanged at 0.5% and there would be additions to the Asset Purchase Facility.
The ECB (European Central Bank) has produced the first official central bank study of the decentralized cryptographic money known as bitcoin, Virtual Currency Schemes.
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One bank official says the crisis is also affecting us, but we're talking about rich people.
Benazir Bhutto's chief economic adviser was Shahid Hasan Khan, a former World Bank official.
Indonesia's February consumer-price inflation jumped to 5.31% on-year from January's 4.57%, prompting a warning from a central bank official.
"The World Bank applies standards which are applicable to all countries, " says Akbar Ali Khan a former World Bank official.
While operations at its headquarters in Mumbai weren't affected, branches in smaller cities and towns saw disruptions, a bank official said.
Nawaz Sharif recruited Moeenuddin Khan, a former Standard Chartered Bank official from Hong Kong, to run the Central Board of Revenue.
They included Gordon Crawford, a well-known portfolio manager, says a bank official.
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Sir Mervyn appeared at the committee along with Bank official Paul Fisher and monetary policy committee members Martin Weale and Ben Broadbent.
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None of the new revelations go to any hard and fast conclusiuon that any bank official had more than hearsay rumors about Madoff.
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He has encouraged staff to wear button pins shaped like footballs (the best way to embarrass a Bank official is to draw attention to them).
Earlier Friday, Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a widely respected former World Bank official, entered the race with the support of Nigeria, Angola and South Africa.
Sir David Walker, a former central banker charged with an official review of bank-governance practices, has suggested that bands of remuneration for heavy hitters outside the boardroom be disclosed.
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To give the arrangement a more acceptable gloss, it will also bring in civilians, and will be led by the head of the interim government, Fakhruddin Ahmed, a former World Bank official.
Unfortunately, Mr Hino has a staff of only 400, and a senior official at the Bank of Japan worries not only that the banking bureau has, to all intents, imploded, but that the new agency lacks expertise.
While the Cypriot parliament postponed voting on the measure until Tuesday, and a central bank official said Cyprus's banks would remain closed until Thursday, Russian officials warned they might have to re-evaluate their position on a restructuring of Cyprus's loans.
Outside the U.S., the Stoxx Europe 600 finished the day up 1.6%, adding to Monday's 0.3% gain, after European Central Bank official Joerg Asmussen helped lift investor spirits by saying on Monday that the ECB will keep its accommodative monetary policy in place as long as necessary.
On Thursday, the European Central Bank cut its official deposit rate for overnight lending to the central bank by 50 basis points, to 1.0%, below its 2.5% benchmark rate, in an attempt to wean banks off the safety of its vaults and thus stimulate interbank lending.
Getting the clean-up plans in place, says an official from the World Bank, which is co-funding the project, has been like pulling teeth.
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Tom Kellermann, a former computer security official at the World Bank who now works at a firm called Core Security Technologies, said the most advanced hackers in the world are increasingly targeting financial institutions, particularly those involved in trading.
Arguably all those purchases of sovereign and official debt by the Bank of England and US Federal Reserve, and purchases of such debt by eurozone banks with the benefit of subsidised loans from the European Central Bank, have created potentially dangerous bubbles in government bonds.
The Bank and the ministry are still at odds over policy, and a former finance official as governor would hardly strengthen the Bank's reputation for independence.
The index is compiled on a quarterly basis using official government statistics or central bank data where available.
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Only yesterday a senior official at the European Central Bank, Jose Manuel Gonzalez-Paramo, declared that any restructuring would have "extreme adverse consequences".
Paul Tucker, the Bank of England official up before MPs this week, said contingency planning has already started to deal with this risk.
When it met on April 2nd, the Reserve Bank held its official interest rate unchanged, at 4.25%, but may well raise rates in May.
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But Rajat Nag, a top official at the Asian Development Bank, may have gotten it right when he said, the era of cheap food is over.
It is almost three years to the day since Bank slashed the official base rate - by 1.5 percentage points - in response to the banking crisis.
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