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  • Liquidity management in an era of liquidity stress-tests

    17 July 2024

    Amid markets, and politicians delivering never-ending stressors of liquidity, insurers at Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2024 conference discussed how their needs for and measurement of liquidity may have changed in recent years, and the reasons why

  • BoE open to an 'MA accelerator' sandbox

    11 July 2024

    Bank's executive director of insurance also discussed streamlined application process

  • High UK services inflation casts doubt on maintaining headline 2% target, RLAM says

    20 June 2024

    As BoE refuses to budge on interest rates

  • Chart of the Week - BoE staff paper pats BoE on back, for combatting Liz Truss's 'Growth Plan'

    03 May 2024

    BoE working paper discusses Truss/Kwarteng's min-budget, and how the Old Lady of Threneedle Street defused a crisis

  • PRA consulting with insurers on implementation of "sandbox" to test MA eligibility

    25 April 2024

    No consensus yet on what sandbox would look like, BoE says

  • Opacity and growing interconnectedness in PE space, key worry for Bank of England

    22 April 2024

    Nathanaël Benjamin executive director of financial stability strategy and risk at BoE explained

  • New research unpicks shortcomings in LDI industry during 2022 gilts crisis

    11 April 2024

    Researchers say Bank of England intervention "offset dysfunction" in gilts market

  • RLAM unmoved by positive UK inflation news

    14 February 2024

    Affiliate's senior economist, Melanie Baker, still not expecting BoE rate cuts until second half of 2024

  • Inflation and high rates not going away soon, RLAM says

    01 February 2024

    Senior economist and head of multi asset at affiliate say central banks unlikely to drop their guard on inflation quickly, as BoE votes to keep rate at 5.25%

  • Canada Life AM expects BoE to hold rates steady this week

    30 January 2024

    The prediction runs counter to market expectations of four rate cuts in 2024