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2024-04-09 – Martin Schlegel: Interest rates and foreign exchange interventions: Achieving price stability in challenging times
10 days agoFor decades, the exchange rate has played a key role for the Swiss economy and for the Swiss National Bank’s monetary policy. However, it was only with the global financial crisis in 2008/2009 that the SNB started to intervene in the foreign exchange market on a large scale.Foreign exchange interventions were necessary to achieve the SNB’s mandate of price stability. To maintain price stability, the SNB influences monetary conditions – primarily by setting the SNB policy rate as well as by intervening in the foreign exchange market if necessary.The SNB has used foreign exchange interventions both in phases of low and high inflation. It purchased foreign currency between 2009 and 2021 to counteract deflation risk when the policy rate was close to its effective lower
Read More »2024-04-08 – Thomas Jordan: Towards the future monetary system
11 days agoIntroductory remarks, event "Towards the future monetary system", Zurich, 08.04.2024
Central bank money and commercial bank money complement each other in the current monetary system. Central bank money comprises sight deposits of banks held at the central bank and banknotes, whereas commercial bank money comprises client deposits at banks. Payments between banks are settled in central bank money, thereby anchoring the value of commercial bank money. It is essential for a central bank to maintain this anchor role of central bank money in the monetary system, irrespective of future technological innovations.Distributed ledger technology and the tokenisation of assets promise to improve financial market infrastructures. For the SNB, this raises the question: How can
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Read More »2024-04-03 – Press release – Project Agorá: central banks and banking sector embark on major project to explore tokenisation of cross-border payments
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Read More »2024-03-22 – Press release – Swiss balance of payments and international investment position: 2023 and Q4 2023
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Read More »2024-03-21 – Thomas Jordan / Martin Schlegel / Antoine Martin: Introductory remarks, news conference
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Read More »2024-03-21 – Web-TV – Web TV: SNB events
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Read More »2024-03-19 – Press release – Publication of 2023 Annual Report
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Read More »2024-03-18 – Publication – Sustainability Report 2023
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Read More »2024-03-11 – Press release – Claudia Aebersold to become new Head of Communications at the Swiss National Bank
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