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Published on January 17, 2026 - 07:21 GMT

Global imbalances in a more fragmented world – remarks by Andrew Bailey

Can I start by extending my welcome to all participants in the Bellagio Group, and congratulate the organisers on a timely and highly relevant choice of subject. My role today is some scene setting. I am going to cover three points. First, a reminder of …

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Published on January 15, 2026 - 11:40 GMT

The evolution of the Bank’s approach to resolution − speech by Dave Ramsden

Good afternoon. I am delighted to be here and thank you to the Money Macro and Finance Society and King’s College London, two bodies I have a close affiliation with, for hosting me today. For the avoidance of doubt, given we are at the start of a new year, …

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Published on January 15, 2026 - 11:24 GMT

Credit Conditions Survey - 2025 Q4

To calculate aggregate results, each lender is assigned a score based on their response. Lenders who report that credit conditions have changed ‘a lot’ are assigned twice the score of those who report that conditions have changed ‘a little’. These scores …

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Published on January 9, 2026 - 15:50 GMT

State- and time-dependent pricing

By Philip Bunn, Nicholas Bloom, Craig Menzies, Paul Mizen, Gregory Thwaites and Ivan Yotzov We present new evidence on how firms set prices using direct questions from a large economy-wide survey of UK firms. Since 2023, 54% of firms report setting prices …

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Published on January 8, 2026 - 16:10 GMT

Monthly Decision Maker Panel data - December 2025

The December DMP survey was conducted between 5 and 19 December 2025 and received 2,062 responses. Firms reported that their realised annual own-price growth fell by 0.1 percentage points to 3.7% in the three months to December. Note that the DMP covers …

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Published on January 8, 2026 - 16:00 GMT

Asset Purchase Facility: Gilt Sales Amendment – Market Notice 8 January 2026

The Bank set out the schedule for sales in Q1 2026 of gilts held in the APF for monetary policy purposes in the 19 December 2025 Market Notice. Following the announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the Spring forecast will be held on Tuesday 3 …

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Published on January 6, 2026 - 15:29 GMT

Minutes of the UK Money Markets Code Sub-Committee – December 2025

Item 1. Introduction & Minutes of last meeting The Co-Chair welcomed the Committee to this hybrid meeting and noted that the minutes of the last UK Money Market Code Sub-Committee meeting (held on 3 June 2025) is on the Bank’s website. Item 2. An …

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Published on December 24, 2025 - 01:00 GMT

Minutes of the Meeting of the Court of Directors held on 28 October 2025

Present Committee members: David Roberts, Chair Andrew Bailey, Governor Sarah Breeden, Deputy Governor – Financial Stability Clare Lombardelli, Deputy Governor - Monetary Policy Sir Dave Ramsden, Deputy Governor – Markets & Banking Sam Woods, Deputy …

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Published on December 20, 2025 - 00:10 GMT

EcoFinBench – a natural language processing benchmark for economics and finance

By Max Ahrens, Dragos Gorduza and Michael McMahon We introduce EcoFinBench, a natural language processing (NLP) benchmark suite for the domains of economics and finance. We comprehensively test a large array of NLP models across multiple domain-specific …

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Published on December 20, 2025 - 00:04 GMT

Minutes of the Money Market Committee meeting – December 2025

Minutes Item 1 – Welcome The Chair thanked members for attending and confirmed that the Minutes of the Money Markets Committee (MMC) September 2025 meeting had been published on the Bank’s website.footnote [1] The Chair welcomed Natasha Vowles to her first …

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Published on December 18, 2025 - 22:12 GMT

Agents' summary of business conditions - December 2025

Overview This Agents’ summary of business conditions (ASBC) summarises intelligence from the Bank’s Agents considered by the Monetary Policy Committee at its December meeting. The intelligence was gathered in the six weeks to late November, so largely …

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Published on December 18, 2025 - 22:01 GMT

Bank Rate reduced to 3.75% - December 2025 Monetary Policy Summary and Minutes

1: Before turning to its immediate policy decision, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) discussed key economic developments and its judgements around them, as well as its views on monetary policy strategy. Current economic conditions 2: Twelve-month CPI …

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Published on December 18, 2025 - 22:01 GMT

Artificial Intelligence Consortium minutes – October 2025

Each group outlined its progress including the workshop’s problem statement, a summary of technical discussions to date, and proposed next steps. Workshop 1: Concentration risk This workshop had discussed how AI’s increased integration into UK financial …

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Published on December 11, 2025 - 22:17 GMT

Ninth edition of the Regulatory Initiatives Grid

The Regulatory Initiatives Forum Grid (the ‘Grid’) is a biannual publication that sets out the regulatory pipeline. It enables the financial services industry and other stakeholders to understand – and plan for – the timing of the initiatives that may have …

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Published on December 11, 2025 - 22:17 GMT

Exempting post-trade risk reduction transactions from the clearing obligation

Overview 1. This consultation paper (CP) sets out the Bank of England’s (the Bank’s) proposal to exempt transactions carried out as part of a post-trade risk reduction (PTRR) service from the derivatives clearing obligation as set out in Article 4 of UK …

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Published on December 11, 2025 - 22:16 GMT

David Roberts reappointed as Chair of the Bank of England’s Court of Directors and Dame Anne Glover and Diana Noble reappointed as ...

David Roberts has been reappointed as Chair of the Court of the Bank of England by His Majesty the King. Following his reappointment, he will serve a second four‑year term as Chair of Court, commencing on 24 October 2026. His Majesty the King has also …

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Published on December 9, 2025 - 11:58 GMT

2025 CCP Stress Test: results report

Key takeaways CCPs hold sufficient resources to absorb losses in the modelled extreme global slowdown and the simultaneous default of multiple members. Further analysis using new internal models confirms that CCPs would also be well positioned to absorb …

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Published on December 8, 2025 - 23:00 GMT

Minutes of the London FXJSC Main Committee Meeting – 25 September 2025

Minutes Item 1: Welcome and Apologies Andrea Rosen (Chair, Bank of England) confirmed that she had taken over as Chair from Vicky Saporta, following Vicky’s recent announcement. Ms Rosen noted apologies from Alan Barnes (Financial Conduct Authority), …

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Published on December 8, 2025 - 23:00 GMT

Minutes of the London FXJSC Legal Sub-committee Meeting – 17 September 2025

Time: 16:00 – 17:30 | Location: Bank of England, Threadneedle St, London, EC2R 8AH Minutes Minute 1: Introduction The Chair (Sharon Blackman) opened the meeting, welcoming those online and in person. Minute 2: Minutes As the 24 June 2025 meeting minutes …

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Published on December 5, 2025 - 22:58 GMT

The evolving landscape of UK financial mutuals: every challenge is an opportunity − speech by Laura Wallis

Many thanks to BAYES Business School for the invitation to address you today. My remarks will preview the forthcoming joint PRA and FCA Mutuals Landscape Report, which we will publish on Friday at a launch event in Rochdale, with the FCA and the Economic …

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