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COVID-19 and the Lessons for Widening Sustainable Finance

We are in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic. Apart [...]

Dynamics of Output Growth During Pandemics: Evidence from Two Centuries of Data

In this Suara SEACEN article, we show that global output [...]

Crisis Preparedness in the Age of COVID-19: a Primer

Maintaining confidence and the smooth functioning of financial markets[i] Since [...]

FDI and Capital Flows: New Perspectives from New Data

Capital flows and their volatility present challenges for economic policy [...]

COVID-19: Financial Stability and Business Continuity Management – Part B

This is the second of a two-part series of our [...]

Coronavirus and the Global Economy: Central Banks’ Policy Responses Update 1

This post is an update of our blog Coronavirus and [...]

COVID-19: Financial Stability and Business Continuity Management – Part A

In many conference speeches, training presentations and papers since the [...]

Job-to-job transitions: A different lens for understanding wage dynamics

Since the global financial crisis, a number of central banks [...]

Coronavirus and the Global Economy: Central Banks’ Policy Responses

Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) in China, [...]

Credit where credit is due: calculating credit-to-GDP gaps

In the wake of the Great Financial Crisis, the Basel [...]

Unchartered Vulnerabilities: Corporate Leveraged Loans and Collateralised Loan Obligations

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008-09, [...]

Scary Spear-Phishing Attack

On Wednesday, November 27, 2019 I experienced a scary spear-phishing [...]

A New Tool to Measure a Bank’s Risk of Failure

A recent paper argues that despite the revisions to the [...]

The Beginning of the End for the Dollar?

The weakening of the dollar and the end of its [...]

Reflections on the 2019 SEACEN Policy Summit

This year’s SEACEN Centre Policy Summit in Kuala Lumpur in [...]

Climate Change as a Prudential Risk for Central Banks and Regulatory Authorities

Once policy-makers accept climate change as a prudential risk, several [...]

Facebook’s Libra: Thoughts from a Regulatory Perspective

So, the white paper on Libra has finally been released, [...]

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Emerging Cyber Threats to the Financial Sector

Technology has given birth to a new era in banking [...]

What’s Done is Done: Economic Payment Finality in the Blockchain – Part 2

While Auer argued that second-layer solutions such a “Lightning Network” [...]

Don’t Try This at Home: Modern Monetary Theory in Emerging Economies

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) has attracted attention recently in the [...]