Central bank · JA · 10 documents
Headline employment upside surprises create a Phantom Payroll Divergence, where overall job additions hide structural contractions in high-wage white-collar technology payrolls [p.3].
A stocktake conducted by the FSB gathered 126 modernisation efforts from 24 jurisdictions and 3 SSBs across various financial sectors and entity types.
The IMR review working group was established in 2024 to evaluate the implementation status of international financial reforms and recommend improvements to monitoring.
Only 4 (21%) of reviewed jurisdictions are fully compliant with KA 6, while 8 (42%) are materially non-compliant.
The aggregate monetary base of OECD countries increased from $2.5 trillion in 2000 to a peak of $25 trillion in March 2022.
Stock markets remained calm after the start of the conflict in Iran on February 28, 2026, with the S&P 500 gaining a maximum increase of 7% on May 10, 2026.
Real gross domestic product expanded at a moderate annual rate of 2.1 percent in the first quarter of 2026.
Japan retained a 4/5 score for direct access in 2025, with an expected upgrade to 5/5 following the planned onboarding of its first non-bank provider in November 2025.
By August 2021, total crypto asset volume had grown by 230 percent year over year in Asian emerging market economies.
Central banks in Brazil, Canada, the Euro Area/Japan, Singapore, South Africa, and Thailand have conducted large-value interbank payment DLT experiments.
