Posts from December 2012

Single supervisor is first step toward European banking union

Earlier this week we wrote a brief guide on the European Union (EU) deal to set up a single banking supervisor for the euro area and other EU countries who choose to opt in. We ended by saying that a full banking union is still far off. Today we share material on (1) what is […]

Guía sobre el acuerdo reciente de unión bancaria europea

(Click here to read this blog entry in English.) Entre la noche del miércoles 12 de diciembre y la mañana del 13, los ministros de finanzas de la Unión Europea (UE) llegaron a un acuerdo para establecer un Mecanismo Único de Supervisión (Single Supervisory Mechanism, SSM) para los bancos. Se trata del primer paso a […]

A guide to the recent European banking union deal

(Pulse aquí para leer esta entrada en español.) Last Wednesday night 12 December (and into early Thursday 13), European Union (EU) finance ministers agreed on a general approach to establishing a Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) for banks. This marks one step in a long path toward a euro area banking union—a necessary condition for a […]

Decisión Fed: lo esperábamos, pero más tarde

Read this blog entry in English here. El comunicado de política monetaria del FOMC (Comité Federal de Mercado Abierto) del miércoles contiene dos anuncios importantes. El primero es que se pasará de la operación Twist a compras directas cuando la operación Twist termine el 31 de diciembre de este año. Bajo aquella operación, la Fed […]

The Fed did what we expected…but a few months earlier than we had anticipated

(Publicaremos la versión en español de esta entrada el viernes.) Yesterday’s FOMC monetary policy statement contained two important changes. The first was a switch from Operation Twist to outright purchases after the Operation Twist program ends on 31 December 2012. Under Operation Twist, the Fed has been buying longer term Treasury bonds at a pace […]