Did you know that during the American Civil War and for a few years after, the United States issued paper currency in lieu of coins? According to rebelstatescurrency.com, the 5, 10, 25, and 50 cent notes were issued due to a coin shortage.
Royal Mail is celebrating Her Majesty The Queen's Diamond Jubilee with a sheet of new 1st Class stamps, featuring images issued throughout the Queen's 60-year reign. […]
The Bank intends to publish the data for 2011 Q4, alongside existing measures of gross and net lending reported by the major UK banks on the basis used in the Bank's Trends in Lending publication, on its website at 9:30am on Monday 13 February 2012. […]
Monthly release of growth rates, amounts outstanding and changes in notes and coin and M0 (notes and coin plus bankers' operational deposits at the Bank of England). […]
Call for papers for the joint workshop of the European Central Bank and the Bank for International Settlements on "Global Liquidity and its International Repercussions", Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 6-7 February 2012. […]
The BIS seeks a Senior Compliance Officer for the BIS headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. Contract length: 3 years fixed-term. Application deadline: 24 February 2012. […]
The BIS seeks a Data Bank Statistical Analyst for the BIS headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. Contract length: 2 years fixed-term. Application deadline: 24 February 2012. […]
The BIS seeks a Services Operator for the BIS headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. Contract length: 18 months fixed-term. Application deadline: 17 February 2012. […]
Speech by Mr Charles I Plosser, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, at the 2012 Economic Forecast Breakfast and Annual Meeting of the Main Line Chamber of Commerce and the Main Line Chamber Foundation, Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, 1 February 2012. […]
Speech by Mr Deepak Mohanty, Executive Director of the Reserve Bank of India, at the Second International Research Conference of the Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai, 2 February 2012. […]
Eleven people re arrested by Sunday at the Occupy D.C. site, while a mostly peaceful rally and march in Oakland, Calif., follows a tumultuous week. […]
SEOUL -(MarketWatch)- Korea National Oil Corp., or KNOC, said Sunday it has sold a 29% stake in the U.S. Ankor oil field to a consortium of local companies for $308 million, and will use the proceeds to invest in new oil assets. […]
Cisco, Coca-Cola, Disney and Visa are among bellwethers set to report results amid expectations for market gains to continue; resolution of Europe’s debt crisis is expected to drag on. […]
Nearly a million migratory birds visit Kashmir's wetlands every year, but this time the severe winter has made it nearly impossible for them to find food. […]
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has described as a "travesty" Russia and China's veto of a UN resolution condemning Syria's crackdown against anti-government protesters. […]
Poland was granted a precautionary loan under the IMF's Flexible Credit Line in 2010, but hasn't needed to draw on the funds. How has Poland managed to weather the global crisis with some of the highest growth rates in Europe? […]
Lower demand for exports from Asia is acting as a drag on growth in the region, but Asia economies continue to hold relatively firm buoyed by continuing strong domestic demand, say IMF experts. […]
Recent developments in regional gas markets across the world point to important structural changes. But patterns in Europe and the United States are diverging, a new IMF study finds. […]
Rapidly restoring confidence in both Europe and globally is crucial to protecting the battered international financial system and rebuilding the ailing recovery, threatened particularly by strains within the euro zone, panelists at a discussion on the global economic outlook say in Davos. […]
Hungary’s government needs to improve its economic governance and fiscal policy mix as the euro zone crisis creates uncertainty for one of Europe's key emerging markets, the IMF says in its latest annual assessment of the country's economy. […]
The IMF Executive Board approved a final $7.6 million payout to Burundi under its existing IMF loan, and also supported a new three-year loan to the central African country. Burundi’s new IMF-supported program aims to alleviate key bottlenecks to growth and foster macroeconomic stability. […]
ATMmarketplace.com surveyed more than 600 ATM executives around the world about their current software functionalities and plans for the future. This guide, sponsored by KAL ATM Software, contains an overall analysis of their responses, as well as a regional breakdown from executives in the Americas; Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and Asia-Pacific. Pre- […]
As the installed base of ATMs continues to grow around the world, criminals are becoming ever more sophisticated in their attacks. IADs and financial institutions that fail to protect themselves could find themselves liable for millions of dollars in damages, not to mention the loss of customer trust. In this guide, sponsored by Diebold, learn how to protect […]
Chicago Fed President Charles Evans said he would back a more explicit pledge by the central bank to keep interest rates low if the third quarter proves to be weak. […]
After world leaders decried the U.N. Security Council's failure to pass a resolution on Syria, reports of violence surged once again in the besieged country. […]
Josh Powell and his two sons died in a blast at Powell's Washington home, a Pierce County sheriff's spokesman said. Utah police previously had identified Powell as the lone "person of interest" in the disappearance of his wife Susan Powell-Cox in 2009. […]
Newt Gingrich said Sunday he is plotting a Southern revival, while Rick Santorum and Ron Paul seek stronger showings in upcoming caucuses to slow front-runner Mitt Romney's momentum after his second straight victory in the Republican presidential race. […]
Forty-three people, including 19 Americans, face prosecution in an Egyptian criminal court on charges of illegal foreign funding as part of an ongoing crackdown on nongovernmental organizations, a prosecution spokesman said Sunday. […]
Demonstrators clashed with police outside the interior ministry in Cairo on Sunday as anger mounts over a deadly stampede at a soccer match that killed dozens last week. […]
3 February 2012 -- Current WHO guidelines call on health service providers to remind patients, that neither hormonal contraceptives nor intrauterine devices known as IUDs offer protection against HIV or other sexually transmitted infections. Protection against both unwanted pregnancy and STIs including HIV is called "dual protection" and condoms ar […]
18 January 2012 -- Dr Margaret Chan was nominated today by the WHOs Executive Board for a second term as Director-General of the Organization. If confirmed by the World Health Assembly, Dr Chan's new term will begin on 1 July 2012 and continue until 30 June 2017. […]
17 January 2012 -- Dr Ala Alwan will take up his appointment as the Regional Director of WHO's Eastern Mediterranean Region (WHO/EMRO) for a five-year term starting on 1 February 2012. […]
12 January 2012 -- India appears to have completed one year without polio since its last case on 13 January 2011. This is a momentous achievement because India was once recognized as the world’s epicentre of polio. However, there remains no room for complacency. India must maintain surveillance and high childhood immunity against wild poliovirus until eradic […]
6 January 2012 -- Six Gulf States detail how they plan to tackle noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) during the coming years. The regional strategy by Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates lays out details on setting targets and measuring results, advancing multisectoral action, and strengthening national capacity to combat NCDs. […]
30 December 2011 -- WHO takes note that studies undertaken by several institutions on whether changes in the H5N1 influenza virus can make it more transmissible between humans have raised concern about the possible risks and misuses associated with this research. WHO is also deeply concerned about the potential negative consequences. However, WHO also notes […]