Highly leveraged investors such as hedge funds have faced severe pressure since the US administration unveiled tariff plans ...

US president Donald Trump imposed his much-touted tariffs, including a blanket 20% levy on the European Union, on April 2 – a ...

The Reserve Bank of India today (April 9) cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points in a unanimous decision to 6% as ...

Firms exposed to tariffs are expecting lower revenue and employment growth, and higher price and unit costs, according to ...

The Central Bank of Kenya yesterday (April 8) cut its benchmark rate by 75 basis points to 10%. In a statement, the bank said ...

New Zealand’s central bank today (April 9) lowered its benchmark interest rate, thus making it the first monetary authority in the Asia-Pacific region to adjust policy in response to US tariffs. In ...

In its latest meeting record, published today (April 9), the BoE’s financial policy committee (FPC) said the risks associated with “the fragmentation of global trade in goods” had “intensified”. It ...

The Central Bank of Iraq has launched an initiative to reform the country’s private banking sector in association with ...

Sarah Bloom Raskin, a former vice-secretary of the US Treasury and former governor of the Federal Reserve, tells Central ...

The Bank of Jamaica announced on April 6 that older banknotes made of cotton will no longer be legal tender from July 1. Note denominations ranging between 50 and 5,000 Jamaican dollars will be ...

The People’s Bank of China has vowed to support the state-owned fund that has been buying shares in an effort to stabilise ...

Syria’s president Ahmad al-Shara has appointed Abdul Qader al-Husriya as governor of the country’s central bank, state news ...