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Thursday, September 4, 2025
TopicCentral banks

Topic: Central banks

Why RBI must stick to fundamentals amid global churn to ensure macroeconomic stability

More and more central banks are shifting their focus back to inflation even as growth recovery remains nascent. In this environment, RBI should avoid drastic policy responses.

SubscriberWrites: Central Bank Digital Currency is an idea whose time has come. But is India ready?

Digital currency is one step towards establishing a new-age, de-centralised financial system. India needs to be smart and willing, writes Vivek Sehrawat.

SubscriberWrites: China’s digital currency e-CNY – a tsunami or mere ripple against US dollar’s hegemony

Govts, markets and societies alike will have to adjust and transform. Central bank digital currency’s entry is the onset of real fintech disruption, writes Neha Baid.

Why interest rates are losing their relevance around the world

Economists have recommended Switzerland’s central bank put less emphasis on interest rates. There’s a lesson for the rest of the world, too.

RBI shows hawk and dove distinctions are for the birds, not economics

Central bankers are more pragmatic than many people give them credit for. Most try to deal with the hands they are given and confront the world as it is.

Pandemic-era central banking is creating bubbles everywhere

Signs of bubbles are everywhere as stock prices jumped by a magnitude not seen since the dot-com era, new share listings boom, and Bitcoin, continues its generally upward climb.

RBI becomes world’s first monetary authority with a million Twitter followers

India's monetary authority has beaten the US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank on Twitter by emerging as the most popular central bank on the microblogging site.

Ex RBI Viral Acharya: Govt pressure on central banks can lead to kiss of death from markets

In his book, Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in India, the ex RBI deputy governor lists the ongoing challenges to RBI’s independence and how markets can ensure it.

How central banks around the world should respond to the coronavirus crisis

To avoid repeating the errors of the 2008 global financial crisis, central banks have to combine stimulus with a range of structural reforms.

China plans its own digital currency as global competition heats up

The People's Bank of China is accelerating the launch and will conduct trials across several cities, according to the state-run Global Times. Internet giants Alibaba and Tencent are expected to participate too.

On Camera

Counter-insurgency is Indian military’s reality. Op Sindoor was brief flash in combat spectrum

The Chief of Defence Staff was spot on when he declared war fighting as ‘military’s bread and butter.’

GST 2.0: India streamlines indirect tax regime amid Trump tariffs & what it means for consumers

Goods and Services Tax Council paves way for a broad two-slab structure of 5% and 18% with a demerit rate of 40% for super luxury and 'sin' goods.

Choppy ride for India’s submarine ambition: Project P-751 chugs forward, Scorpenes a stinging tale

With P75I still years away & the follow-on Scorpenes stuck, India’s long-promised 30-yr submarine plan remains behind schedule

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.