New Blog Post!
We are pleased to announce the latest post on the SUARA SEACEN Blog by Nur Ain Shahrier, Senior Economist in the Macroeconomic and Monetary Policy Management pillar at the Centre. Not All Fiscal Cuts Are Created Equal: Why Fiscal Multipliers Matter for Central Banks? As governments across Asia tighten budgets, one truth becomes clear: not…
New Blog Post!
We are pleased to announce the latest post on the SUARA SEACEN Blog by Vacharakoon Jivakanont, Senior Financial Sector Specialist in the Financial Stability, Supervision, and Payments pillar at the Centre and Nathan Crespy, from Banque de France. CBDCs vs Stablecoins: Competing or Complementary Roles? This article analyzes how Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and…
New Working Papers
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new Working Paper by SEACEN Senior Economist Nur Ain Shahrier, and her co-authors Zaheer Anwar and Milena Migliavacca: (WP4/2025) Horizon Dynamics of Systemic Risk in Global Energy Firms Could the firms driving the clean-energy transition also hold untapped influence over financial interconnectedness? In this paper we…
New Blog Post!
We are pleased to announce the latest post on the SUARA SEACEN Blog by Ms Donna Lumbo, Senior Analyst in the Leadership, Governance, and Human Capital pillar at the Centre. The Human Side of Governance: Reflections from the 2025 Central Bank Governance Summit The 2025 Governance Summit highlighted a compelling reality: Effective central bank governance…
New Working Papers
We are pleased to announce the publication of two new SEACEN Working Papers: (WP2/2025) Wholesale CBDC: Examining the Business Case by Srichander Ramaswamy Central banks are exploring whether wholesale CBDCs (wCBDCs) can enhance settlement of tokenised assets. Existing RTGS systems could deliver the solutions through APIs. While wCBDCs may streamline direct central bank settlements or…
SEACEN Policy Brief #1 2025
The Centre is pleased to announce the publication of the new SEACEN Policy Brief, Issue #1 by Meltem Chadwick. This SEACEN Policy Brief explores how rapid structural change driven by digitalisation and AI adoption, as illustrated by the spread of generative AI such as ChatGPT, challenges fundamental economic relationships and the management of monetary policy….
New Blog Post!
We are pleased to announce the latest post on the SUARA SEACEN Blog by Mark McKenzie, Senior Financial Sector Specialist at the Centre. The Adoption of AI in SEACEN Member Central Banks and Considerations for Financial Stability Artificial intelligence is transitioning from narrow, task-specific analytical models to advanced generative systems capable of producing human-like outputs…
New Blog Post!
We are pleased to announce the latest post on the SUARA SEACEN Blog by Meltem Chadwick, Senior Economist, MMPM, together with her co-authors Jaqueson Galimberti (Asian Development Bank) and Rennae Cherry (Reserve Bank of New Zealand). Nonresponse Bias is Distorting Household Inflation Expectations: Evidence and Policy Fixes Our new blog post shows that standard household…
Publication Update
The Centre is pleased to announce the acceptance and publication in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking a paper co-authored by MMPM Senior Economist, Dr Meltem Chadwick. The paper is titled “Nonresponse Bias in Household Inflation Expectations Surveys” and was co-authored with Rennae Cherry (Reserve Bank of New Zealand) and Jaqueson K. Galimberti (Asian…
New Blog Post!
We are pleased to announce the latest post on the SUARA SEACEN Blog by Masyitah Rosmin, Research Associate at the Centre. Conducting Microprudential Bank Stress Tests: Exploring the Why and How This blog highlights stress-testing practices across several jurisdictions and draws attention to similarities and some differences on how they are conducted. It then sets…