In the Netherlands the Money Transaction Offices Act requires money transfer companies to be registered with the Dutch Central Bank.

The Dutch model brigaded the prudential regulators inside the central bank, while the Australian version was built on a separate institution.

The Central Bank of the Netherlands expects Dutch GDP to shrink by 0.5 this year following a contraction of about 1 in 2012.

The Dutch and American central banks, with direct oversight of their banking systems, were no more effective in identifying potentially dangerous systemic issues than were non central bank regulators elsewhere.

From Central Bank to Central Planning?

Central Bank Confidential

Whose Central Bank?

European Central Bank (ECB)

The Bank of Canada, BoC () is Canada's central bank.

And financial stability is again a central bank responsibility, including for the more conservative European Central Bank.

Europe s Central Bank at Sea

The Bank of Algeria (, ), is the central bank of Algeria.

Not every country s central bank not even every friendly country s central bank has been invited to join the swap lines club. Membership is restricted to the United States Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, the Swiss National Bank, and the Bank of Canada.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, a new central bank was established, Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

The Uncertain Future of Central Bank Supremacy

The Threat to the Central Bank Brand

Central Bank (Information and Financial Analysis Unit)

Central Bank (Information and Financial Analysis Unit)

The Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) recently named Equatorial Guinea s Lucas Abaga Nchama to head its central bank, the Bank of Central African States (BEAC).

The Central Bank serves as Azerbaijan's central bank, empowered to issue the national currency, the Azerbaijani manat, and to supervise all commercial banks.

The European Central Bank and the Bank of England have been the worst offenders.

But can an absence of clarity about the ECB s voting arrangements last forever? Nout Wellink of the Dutch Central Bank has explicitly said that more disclosure would one day be needed as the ECB reaches maturity.

The European Central Bank also lost its credibility.

John Stewart Mill vs. the European Central Bank

Central bank independence is a peculiar institutional innovation.

Improved central bank policy is another huge factor.

The European Union wants to establish a European Systemic Risk Board composed of the national central bank governors, chaired by the European Central Bank.

The West s major central banks the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, and the United States Federal Reserve should take this to heart.

In fact, almost all modern central banks, including the European Central Bank, do precisely that.

For the persons licensed by the Central Bank the criteria for considering the transactions as suspicious are established by the Board of the Central Bank.

The central bank is the lender of last resort.

The honeymoon for the European Central Bank is over.

In 2001, Bahrain's central bank issued 15 new licenses.

The Central Bank can require and receive any information.

One camp, call it the Banking Camp, regards a central bank as a bank for bankers.

Similar work is underway in Africa, led by the World Bank and in Central America various countries governments are collaborating with the Inter American Development Bank and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration.

But the euro was an incomplete currency it had a central bank but no central treasury.

But the euro was an incomplete currency it had a central bank but no central treasury.

A new central bank, the Bank of Korea, was established on 12 June 1950, and assumed the duties of Bank of Joseon.

The United States Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of England are particularly exposed.

The European Central Bank is taking a similarly indirect approach.

Is Central Bank Independence All It s Cracked up to Be?

The European Central Bank is in a different place entirely.

Central bank inflation targets are now normally set at 2 .

But the European Central Bank (ECB) will be more worried.