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De La Rue's Nikki Strickland speaks to Central Banking about cash in the payments landscape.

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Business and financial cycles follow expansion, peak, recession and recovery phases. During the low interest rate environment, after the global financial crisis, many nations around the world were in the expansion phase. The "global unsyncing" can be viewed in terms of the financial and business cycles separating, as well as advanced and emerging economies following different paths as the Fed hikes. Central Banking welcomes back Diana Dengo, investment director at Wellington Management, to talk about this phenomenon.

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Lias Hammouche, global head of financial and collateral services at BNP Paribas, talks to Central Banking about the ECB's decision to expand its collateral framework during the pandemic, to preserve liquidity in the financial system.

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Clément Duhamel, business development and customer success manager at Invoke Software, speaks to Central Banking about mapping entity-relationships.

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Clément Duhamel, business development and customer success manager at Invoke Software, speaks to Central Banking about the evolution of regtech.

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In this episode, Sylvia Kiesewalter, director at BlackRock solutions, talks about how technology can help reserve managers assess risk, returns and diversification, against different stress scenarios.

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Blackrock's Marija Djordjevic talks about macro forces shaping global markets and how clients are hedging their portfolios using technology.

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Central Banking's Joasia E. Popowicz speaks to Diana Dengo from Wellington about the interaction between monetary policy and reserve management.

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Central Banking speaks to BNP Paribas' Michael Saunders about how central banks use securities lending.

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IMF legal specialists José Garrido and Juan Sebastián Viancha Trujillo talk about where central banks and other authorities might need to take action to resolve flaws in the legal framework around fintech.

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Regnology's Joanne Horgan discusses how joint projects between central banks and industry players are improving supervisory data collection.

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Henrik Crone: improving central bank's data management by CB On Air

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Central Banking's European correspondent Victor Mendez-Barreira speaks to Oliver Wuensch, partner at Oliver Wyman, about the troubles plaguing the eurozone

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Bitt's head of partnerships, Imran Khan, explains why Nigeria's financial ecosystem is ripe for CBDC issuance.

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Former Deutsche Bunderbank executive board member, Andreas Dombret, talks about how central banks are tackling the issue of climate change from a supervisory perspective

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BNP Paribas' global head of sustainability, Jane Ambachtsheer, discusses the financial systems' new net zero targets and what role central banks should play in meeting them.

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Ryan Flood, chif technology officer for Vizor Software, talks about the importance of granular data and why central banks need to invest in both their data models and their staff

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Skysparc's Lars Schröder and Marcus Gullers reflect upon the challenges associated with cloud computing and why central banks should adopt the technology

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The Bank of Lithuania's Ugnė Šaltenytė and Ramūnas Baravykas provide an update on the central bank's Damama project and why a greater use of micro-data is so crucial

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Oliver Wyman's Dominik Weh discusses the cultural shift happening at central banks and why trial and error is so important

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Paul Fisher: the future of central bank balance sheets by CB On Air

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Central Banking discusses the latest trends in payment system development with Liz Oakes (Mastercard) and Somya Patnaik (ACI Worldwide)

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Co-founder of Bitt, Simon Chantry, reflects on the launch of the Eastern Carribbean Central Bank's CBDC launch

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Fintech presents unique opportunities for central banks. In this episode, representatives from the International Monetary Fund discuss how, from a legal perspective, central banks should address the impact of fintech on their governance.

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Johanna Lasker, Head of Official Institutions for BNP Paribas Asset Management, discusses how central bank reserve managers are approaching the current low-yield environment while preparing for the unexpected.

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Richard Barwell, head of macro research, speaks about the limitations of current forward guidance frameworks, and what central banks need to do to improve their monetary policy communications.

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Central Banking speaks to ACI Worldwide's Craig Ramsey, and Mastercard's George Evers about the current state of payment infrastructure

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Central banks have begun researching, and in some instances, piloting central bank digitial currencies - a digital form of central bank money. However, recent research has revealed many central banks do not have the ability to issue either account based or token based CBDCs.

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The chief fintech officer at the Astana Financial Services authority speaks about how the pandemic has changed the way financial firms provider services to customers, opening the door to new incumbents

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FedSpeak: Cleveland Fed director on all things inflation and Covid-19 by CB On Air

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The National Bank of Georgia leveraged big data tools during the pandemic to ensure their staff returned to work safely. Otar Gorgodze speaks about the central bank's new fintech unit and how technology is changing Georgia's banking sector

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FedSpeak: Boston Fed backs community action on Covid-19 and racial inequality by CB On Air

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Covid-19 presented reserve managers with unprecedented business continuity challenges at a time of acute market and economic distress

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FedSpeak: Financial innovation and stability in the US by CB On Air

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FedSpeak: An interdisciplinary approach to Covid-19 surveying by CB On Air

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St Louis Fed’s Mary Suiter discusses the reserve bank’s new programme for Native American economic education

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Breno Lobo, senior payment's advisor at the Central Bank of Brazil, provides an insight into the country's new instant payment system and how it plans to boost financial inclusion.

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In our latest episode, we sit down with Bank of Finland's fintech expert - Aleksi Grym - to talk all things crypto asset. We attempt to dispell some of the myths circulating in mainstream media and talk about the Bank of Finland's own digital currency from the 1990's?!

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In our new episode, we talk about the biggest themes for 2020. Will central banks begin to more widely adopt cloud computing? Who should be responsible for creating a cyber taxonomy? And will China be the first to launch a retail central bank digital currency?

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The first episode of Cb On Air's Tech Talk series - a podcast series providing in-depth coverage of fintech developments within the central Banking community

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Anita Angelovska Bezhoska, the first woman to hold the office of governor in the Republic of North Macedonia, explains how she almost turned down the job.

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The University of Chicago's Greg Kaplan talks Hank models and why there may be a closer connection between fiscal and monetary policy than central banks would like.

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Former governor of the Bank of Israel, Karnit Flug, explains the trials and tribulations of being the first female governor of the insitution,

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Katrín Ólafsdóttir discusses how the Central Bank of Iceland's equal pay certification will encourage women to enter the economics profession.

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In this episode we speak to European Central Bank principle economist Ana Lamo, who has done the research into how effective the central bank's measures to improve diversity have been. She will be joined by Anne-Sylvie Catherin, director general of the Human Resources department

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Episode 6 - How to fight the next crisis by CB On Air

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Many central banks currently lack a key power that could help them deal with crises, argues Yale University’s Andrew Metrick

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Episode 4 - The global regulatory landscape by CB On Air

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Could the financial crisis have been prevent had women been in charge of the world's supervisors? Martin Čihák from the IMF talks about his research and why women bring greater stability to the financial system

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Many things behave like money in the modern economy, and central banks have not yet figured out how to control them all, says Andrew Metrick

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Yale’s Andrew Metrick discusses the root causes of the 2008 crisis and whether central banks are now on top of the risks

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What new skills does a central banker need, post-2008? Do modelling approaches still need work?

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Andrew Metrick discusses the Yale master's degree in systemic risk

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Rachael King speaks with senior portfolio manager Vaithegi Naidu to find out why women are attracted to reserve management

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Arthur Turrell discusses agent-based modelling

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Director of the Human Resources department at the Croatian National Bank, Željka Majher, discusses the importance of finding the right candidate

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RM2. Thinking empirically - David Hendry and John Muellbauer by CB On Air

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Ilka Gleibs, assistant professor at LSE, discusses why women think differently to their male counterparts when it comes to career progression

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Oxford University's David Vines discusses how economists might go about improving core modelling approaches.

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Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, Carolyn Wilkins, discusses how the central bank has overhauled its HR processes to foster diversity

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Central Banking's Rachael King speaks to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's Mary Daly about the equality challenges facing central banks.