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The Bank of England’s (BOE) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to leave the benchmark interest rate unchanged at 0.10% at its November policy meeting, as the second nationwide lockdown kicks-in this Thursday. The BOE expanded the Quantitative Easing (QE) program by £150 billion to £895 billion. Sees UK GDP -11% …

The Bank of England (BoE) is expected to expand its huge bond-buying stimulus program next week, for the third time since the beginning of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Reuters reported. The asset purchase program is set to be increased by GBP 100 billion to a total of GBP 845 billion, …

Following the conclusion of the Bank of England (BOE) Financial Policy Committee (FPC) meeting on Thursday, the central bank released a statement, with the key points found below. The UK authorities and financial sector have measures in place to limit disruption to financial services at the end of the transition …

Member of the Bank of England’s (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee, Jonathan Haskel, said on Monday that the Eurozone could see positive effects from negative interest rates, according to recent researches. “The effectiveness is probably going to be contingent on the structure of the financial system and the position where we …

The Bank of England’s chief economist, Andy Haldane crossed the wires in the last hour and ruled out the possibility of negative rates in the short-term. Haldane said that conditions to negative interest have not been met yet. “None of the conditions for negative rates has been satisfied.Work on negative …

The Bank of England is realistic in facing the current circumstances, seeing the challenges coming with negative interest rates without ruling them out as an option to help the British economy in the face of the COVID-19 crisis, the Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, said on Tuesday. …

Governor Andrew Bailey said the Bank of England’s latest policy statement did not imply it would necessarily use negative interest rates, and that observers should not read too much into it. “It doesn’t imply anything about the possibility of us using negative instruments,” Bailey told an online talk hosted by …

“The UK economy can be viewed as a glass half full or half empty,” the Bank of England (BOE) Governor Andrew Bailey said while speaking at a webinar hosted by the British Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday. Quotes“UK recovery has been quite rapid and quite substantial.““Below the surface recovery is …

The Bank of England decided to keep its monetary policy unchanged in interest rates, in line with expectations. The Bank of England’s monetary policy statement on Thursday showed that the bank decided to stabilize interest rates at 0.10%. Analysts had expected that the BOE would hold interest rates at 0.10%.

Stablecoins and cryptocurrencies must be well regulated by market authorities, according to remarks by the Bank of England (BoE) Governor, Andrew Bailey, on Thursday. The comments, picked up by Reuters, showed a call for regulators to keep up with market developments in the digital payment domain. “If stablecoins are to …