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Bernie Fraser, a former governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, has even proposed creating a new regional central bank for central bankers, rather like the Bank for International Settlements in Basle.
ECONOMIST: Next: AMU?
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After claiming for a year that the country needed to boost credit and spend its way out of the regional slump, the central bank has now done an about-face and placed restrictions on new property loans.
ECONOMIST: A nervous shuffle in Malaysia
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That sentiment was echoed in the Federal Reserve's beige book, an anecdotal summary of economic conditions across the central bank's 12 regional districts.
WSJ: Retail Sales Increase
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But many national regulators admit that in the event of a serious crisis the European Central Bank would have to step in, and that bank supervision will eventually be handled at the regional level.
ECONOMIST: It all depends
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Mundell is proposing, in effect, a de facto super-regional currency area by managing the exchange rate between the dollar and the euro through a process of central bank coordination.
FORBES: Mundell's Dollar/Euro Fix Doesn't Fix Our Currency Mess
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Trade settlement between the two countries was hit after India's central bank barred Iran-related payments from being processed through the Asian Clearing Union, a regional clearinghouse which the U.S. says is opaque and could be used by Tehran to finance its alleged nuclear-weapons program.
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