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The SEACEN Centre aims To be the Regional Research and Learning Hub for Central Banks in the Asia-Pacific Region.
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Season 6 Episode 1: The SEACEN Capital Flows Monitor - Reissue!
It's a new year and the SEACEN Podcast starts our latest season with a brand new episode. Dr. Ole Rummel speaks with Dr. Rogelio Mercado to discuss the re-issued SEACEN Capital Flows Monitor, which is now available in the SEACEN website.
They discussed the impact of high U.S. and domestic policy rates
on capital flows to Asia, as well as the latest trends and patterns of the region's capital flows and external positions. -
Season 5 Episode 2: The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank - [Developing Story]
Ole and Mark are back, this time discussing the biggest news of the past few days: the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, a major financier for venture capitalists, tech start-ups and other Silicon Valley outfits, the federal government's response, and possible early lessons, if any, for SEACEN's stakeholders.
Disclaimer:The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speakers' own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of The SEACEN Centre. -
Season 5 Episode 1: In Conversation with Prof. Leef Dierks
It's the first episode of a brand new season in 2023, and Mark McKenzie and Ole Rummel are joined by Prof. Leef Dierks, a guest to the Centre under the Visiting Scholar Programme. He is Professor of International Capital Markets at the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences. Prior to joining the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences in July 2013, Leef was a Fixed Income Strategist at Barclays Capital and then Head of Covered Bond Strategy at Morgan Stanley.
In this episode, our hosts and Prof. Dierks talk about trust in Economic Policymaking and implications for the current situation, monetary policy transmission, the pitfalls and benefits of various inflation measures and discuss the Sacrifice Ratio. -
Season 4 Episode 2: Inflation Growth and Financial Stability
Mark McKenzie and Ole Rummel are joined by Prof. Hans Genberg, Professor of Economics at the Asia School of Business, and Prof. Steven Cecchetti, who is the Rosen Chair in International Finance at the Brandeis International Business School as they discuss inflationary outlooks around the world, energy prices, and discuss the global economic impact of latest world events.
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Season 4 Episode 1: Sanctions and Crypto Assets
Mark McKenzie and Ole Rummel are back on air, ahead of a special webinar on the same topic coming up on 25 March 2022.
Mark and Ole explore the potential for digital assets and cryptocurrencies to lessen the impact of sanctions and provide food for thought on steps that SEACEN members and stakeholders can take to scrutinize the use of digital assets.
Some key questions:
What are sanctions?
Can digital assets and cryptocurrencies be used to evade sanctions?
What should businesses, including banks, in the SEACEN stakeholder space do to mitigate the risk? -
Season 3 Episode 7 - Challenges and Policy Options for Central Banks in Small, Open and Financially Integrated Economies
Dr. Mangal Goswami, Executive Director of the SEACEN Centre, talks to former Governor Már Guðmundsson about Iceland’s crisis and recovery and the lessons learned. More generally they discuss the challenges facing central banks in small, open and financially integrated economies (SOFIES) due to cross-border financial integration and volatile capital flows. Preserving monetary and financial stability in SOFIES requires more instruments than generally deployed before the great financial crisis (GFC), such as foreign exchange interventions, macroprudential tools and capital flow management tools, that in turn gives rise to the need to develop an integrated policy framework. Finally, they discuss to what degree these lessons are relevant in the current crisis.
The views of former Governor Már Guðmundsson on these issues are shaped by his terms at the Central Bank of Iceland from August 2009 to August 2019 but also by his work at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) as the Deputy Head of its Monetary and Economic Department from 2004-2009. He was a chairman of a regular meeting at the BIS of Governors from small open economies 2017-2019.