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…
Publication Update
The Centre is pleased to announce the acceptance and publication in separate journals two papers co-authored by MMPM Senior Economist, Dr Nur Ain Shahrier. The paper titled “Dynamic default-risk spillover of global energy firms: Evidence from five subsectors” was accepted and published in the Review of Financial Economics. The co-authors are Zaheer Anwer (Sunway University…
Publication Update
The Centre is pleased to announce the acceptance and publication of a paper authored by Dr Cynyoung Park, SEACEN Executive Director, and Dr Kwanho Shin from Korea University, Seoul in the Journal of International Money and Finance, Volume 154, April 2025. The paper, titled “The Development of Local Currency Bond Markets and Uncovered Interest Rate…