The week ahead in central banking
Our week ahead email helps you track the most important events in central banking. To see all of our emails and alerts visit www.ft.com/nbe
MPC minutes
The minutes of this month’s Monetary Policy Committee meeting, out on Wednesday, will reveal whether all of the nine-strong committee backed the decision to expand quantitative easing by £50bn.
Many think the decision will have split the committee. Read more
ECB’s Praet plays the Draghi game
Peter Praet. Image by Getty.
Peter Praet, the European Central Bank executive board member who took over responsibility for its economics department earlier this month, chose – probably wisely – a German newspaper for his debut interview.
Talking to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the German-born Belgian sounds tough – but does not actually explicitly rule out much in terms of possible policy actions. To that extent he looks entirely in step with Mario Draghi, the ECB president. Read more
Draghi reshuffles but doesn’t re-think
How revolutionary are times at the European Central Bank? Mario Draghi, president, produced a surprise on Tuesday by handing Peter Praet, his Belgian colleague on the ECB’s six-man executive board, the powerful economics portfolio. The assumption, at least in Berlin, was that it would go to Germany’s Jörg Asmussen, on the spurious grounds that the position has been held by a German since the ECB was created in 1998. But don’t expect the change to produce radical changes in the bank’s thinking. Read more
The week ahead in central banking
Our week ahead email helps you track the most important events in central banking. To see all of our emails and alerts visit www.ft.com/nbe Read more
The week ahead in central banking
Our new week ahead email will help you to track the most important events in the central banking world. To see all of our email and alerts visit www.ft.com/nbe
Both of next week’s key events are on Monday. Read more
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Chris Giles has been the economics editor of the Financial Times since 2004. Based in London, he writes about international economic trends and the British economy. Before reporting economics for the Financial Times, he wrote editorials for the paper, reported for the BBC, worked as a regulator of the broadcasting industry and undertook research for the Institute for Fiscal Studies. RSS
Michael Steen, Frankfurt bureau chief, covers the ECB and the eurozone's economies. He joined the Financial Times in 2007 as Amsterdam correspondent and later worked as a front page news editor in London. Before joining the FT, he spent nine years as a correspondent at Reuters, mostly in foreign postings that included a previous stint in Frankfurt, as well as Moscow, Kiev and central Asia. He read German and Russian at Cambridge.RSS
Robin Harding is the FT's US economics editor, based in Washington. Prior to this, he was based in Tokyo, covering the Bank of Japan and Japan's technology sector, and in London as an economics leader writer. Robin studied economics at Cambridge and has a masters in economics from Hitotsubashi University, where he was a Monbusho scholar. Before joining the FT, Robin worked in asset management and banking. RSS
Ralph Atkins, capital markets editor, has been writing for the Financial Times for more than 20 years following an economics degree from Cambridge. From 2004 to 2012, Ralph was Frankfurt bureau chief, watching the European Central Bank and eurozone economies. He has also worked in Bonn, Berlin, Jerusalem and Brussels. RSS
Claire Jones is Money Supply economics team writer, based in London. Before joining the Financial Times, she was the editor of the Central Banking journal and CentralBanking.com. Claire studied philosophy and economics at the London School of Economics. RSS
