European Commission Green Paper on Stability Bonds
Major changes in official reserves statistics 1990-2009
A summary of major changes in central banks’ gold holdings.
Gold-backed bonds - A partial solution to the Eurozone crisis - video
Natalie Dempster, Director of Government Affairs, World Gold Council, discusses the role of gold as a partial solution to the eurozone sovereign debt crisis.
The importance of gold in Reserve Asset management - video
The report examines how gold can help a central bank meet its foreign reserve management objectives. A portfolio optimiser is used to show that the efficient frontier of a typical developing or emerging market central bank can be enhanced by adding gold - in other words, a bank can enhance its risk-…
The importance of gold in reserve asset management
This report examines how gold can help a central bank meet its foreign reserve management objectives. It also explains how the gold market works, both in terms of the fundamentals of demand and supply, and the trading and vaulting of gold.
The Evolution in Central Bank Attitudes toward Gold
Response to Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s Consultative Document
This document comments in detail on the consultation launched by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) on the International Framework for Liquidity Risk Measurement Standards and Monitoring, on December 17, 2009. This document specifically addresses the omission of gold from the proposed definition of a high quality asset in the 30 day liquidity coverage ratio and the 50% required stable funding factor applied in the net stable funding ratio
Structural change in reserve asset management
This paper, the first in a series examining trends in central bank activity, looks at some recent developments in the official sector, and places them in the context of the sector’s history over the past 40 years.
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