The central bank’s key interest rate is below the level at which it neither stimulates nor restricts growth, while underlying ...

Japan has long been regarded as largely immune from the problems of debt-driven fiscal policy and monetary inflation. After ...

The BoJ kicked off the first phase of that PoC in April 2021 to test the basic transactions of CBDC, including issuance, payout and transfer. A year later, Japan entered phase 2 of the PoC, which ...

Morocco’s Central Bank, Bank Al-Maghrib (BAM), and International Finance Corporation (IFC) sealed, on Wednesday in Rabat, a partnership agreement on promoting agricultural financial inclusion.

Kazuo Ueda, governor of the Bank of Japan, during a news conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Dec. 19, 2023. (Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images) ...

For years, the Bank of Japan has limited yields to a tight range to keep interest rates low, a policy it has incrementally loosened since its introduction in 2016.

On Tuesday, Japan's central bank raised interest rates. It marks Japan's first rate hike since February 2007. The markets barely reacted to the decision, which had been widely anticipated. TOKYO ...

Japan's central bank has targeted a 10-year yield of zero since 2016 under a policy known as yield curve control, in an effort to achieve stable inflation of 2% after decades of stubborn deflation.

The Japanese government has nominated Kazuo Ueda to lead its central bank, in a surprise move that could pave the way for the country to wind down its ultra-loose monetary policy.

Everyone knows that the end of yield-curve control is coming in Japan. The central bank—whoever is at its helm—can at least kill off the policy before it loses a lot more money. ...

Bank of Japan scraps negative interest rate in first hike in 17 years. Japan’s central bank begins unwinding one of the world’s most aggressive monetary easing programmes.