Operations Update 1 April 2022
Position Available
We are pleased to inform you of a Vacancy at the Centre, for Executive, Finance & Administration.Full Job Description and Requirements for this position are available at this link. Deadline for Application is 30 April 2022.
New SEACEN Podcast Episode!
Season 4 – Episode 1: Sanctions and Crypto Assets Mark McKenzie and Ole Rummel are back on air, ahead of a special webinar on the same topic coming up on 25 March 2022. Mark and Ole explore the potential for digital assets and cryptocurrencies to lessen the impact of sanctions and provide food for thought…
New Blog Post!
Despite the fact that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are frequently called ‘a solution in search of a problem’, some 86 per cent of central banks worldwide are actively researching the potential for a CBDC. Their design, implementation and adoption will be strongly influenced by country specific objectives and there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution. One…
Joint Press Communique: 57th SEACEN BOG Conference & Meeting
The 57th SEACEN Governors’ Conference/High Level Seminar and the 41st Meeting of the SEACEN Board of Governors was sucessfully held on 6 December 2021.Below is the official Press Communique in full: https://www.seacen.org/file/file/2021/Meetings/PressComm57BOG2021.pdf
New Blog Post!
Since the Asian Financial Crisis of the late 1990s, bank failures have been a relatively uncommon feature of the financial sector landscape in the SEACEN stakeholder space. And Asian banking sectors, so far, seem to have weathered the COVID-19 storm quite well. But the horizon for the remainder of 2021 and on into 2022 is…
New SEACEN Working Paper
A new Working Paper by Özer Karagedikli (The SEACEN Centre) and Sui-Jade Ho (Bank Negara Malaysia), titled Effects of Monetary Policy Communication in Emerging Market Economies: Evidence from Malaysia is now available for download. Abstract: By conducting a high-frequency event study similar to Gürkaynak et al. (2005), we find that two factors are needed to…
New Blog Post!
Ole Rummel and guest author Hans Genberg from the Asia School of Business write about how El Salvador – the smallest country in Central America – became the first country in the world to make bitcoin unrestricted legal tender and thereby an official national currency. Click to read.
New Blog Post!
Glenn Tasky also writes about the recent developments in El Salvador, and looks at these positive and negative developments and analyses their likely impact on the cryptocurrency industry, which recognises that it has an image problem and is trying to rebrand itself as the “digital commodity money” sector. . Click to read.
New Blog Post!
Ozer Karagedikli and Ole Rummel write about the “Entry and Exit Knowledge Exercise” – a tool that was recently introduced in the courses run by the MMPM Pillar at the SEACEN Centre; and share their thoughts (and charts) from their findings. Click to read.