The Central Bank of Egypt has cut its key lending rates by 100 basis points and lowered its reserve requirements.

The Bank of Russia has cut its policy rate by 50 basis points to 15.5%.

A report published by the IMF on February 11 details the changes made to the NBU’s quarterly projection model to help it cope with “exceptionally high uncertainty” due to Russia’s ongoing aggression.

Of the 28 central banks that addressed the question, 71.4% say they lack the powers to issue a CBDC. The result agrees broadly with the findings published in the 2025 benchmark – when 69% of 29 ...

The Bank of England (BoE) will review the potential role of digital gilts in its monetary operations after launching a pilot ...

Fewer than half of retail central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are designed to be programmable, data from the Fintech Benchmarks 2026 shows. Overall, twenty-three (69.7%) of 33 central banks ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has begun to allow bureaux de change to access the official foreign exchange market, in a ...

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The European Parliament has voted to approve the European Central Bank’s proposal for both online and offline versions of the ...

Bulgaria’s president, Iliana Iotova, has picked Andrey Gurov, the suspended deputy governor of the country’s central bank, to form a caretaker government.

The United Arab Emirates’ central bank joined Hong Kong’s bond clearing scheme today (February 12), in a move that both jurisdictions’ monetary authorities said would provide the Gulf state with ...

Christoper Waller has again made the case for the US Federal Reserve to allow companies to open ‘skinny’ master accounts. In ...