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.
Catch Aziz Durrani at Risk ASEAN 2021
Mr Aziz Durrani will be chairing the Risk ASEAN Virtual Programme on 24 – 25 May 2021. The full programme is available at 2021 Programme – Risk ASEAN (aseanrisk.com)
New Blog Post!
Ozer Karagedikli and Ole Rummel write about debt relief and reach into the annals of history to look at the famed Code of Hammurabi. They argue that there are a few lessons we learnt from the GFC that might be helpful in stopping large-scale foreclosures, keeping employment steady as much as possible and reducing the…
Positions Available
We are pleased to inform you of two new vacancies at the Centre. These are for Senior Financial Sector Specialist under the Financial Stability, Supervision and Payments pillar, and Senior Economist under the Macroeconomic and Monetary Policy Management pillar. Full Job Descriptions and Requirements for these positions are available in the links above. Deadline for Application is 30 April…
New Blog Post!
The Centre’s Director for FSSP, Glenn Tasky, looks at the rise of “Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) services across the globe, and in this region. What is a BNPL service? Is it safe to use? Glenn discusses this development in depth at the Suara SEACEN blog. Click to read.
New Blog Post!
What’s changed about Bitcoin since 2017? What’s driving the price of Bitcoin in 2021? Mark McKenzie dissects this issue in the Suara SEACEN blog. Click to read.