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2 Sep 21
The Bank of England has named former Goldman Sachs economist Huw Pill as its next chief economist and a member of its Monetary Policy Committee.
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6 Aug 21
The Bank of England has signalled it could tighten its monetary policy slightly faster than had been expected as the recovery from Covid-19 gets underway and inflation continues to run above its 2%...
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27 Jul 21
It is too early to withdraw extraordinary monetary policy support, despite high inflation and growing employment, a Bank of England official has said.
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5 Jul 21
The UK’s debt repayments will be favourable, despite risks stemming from an elevated deficit and future Brexit-related shocks, according to ratings agency Moody’s.
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17 Jun 21
Bank of England protections are available to help protect local authorities lending to their peers, according to a senior advisor at the bank.
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28 May 21
The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee has written to chancellor Rishi Sunak to clarify the working relationship between the Bank of England and department throughout Covid-19.
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6 May 21
UK GDP is forecast to grow by 7.25% this year, as Covid-19 restrictions are lifted – the fastest growth since the Second World War, according to the Bank of England.
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19 Apr 21
The Treasury and the Bank of England have launched a joint taskforce to explore the potential of a digital currency.
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16 Mar 21
The Bank of England is looking at “new tools” to guide the UK economy out of the crisis caused by Covid-19, according to governor Andrew Bailey.
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5 Feb 21
The Bank of England has written to banks asking them to take measures to prepare for any future decision to cut interest rates below zero later this year.
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25 Jan 21
The Bank of England’s bond purchase programme is creating a “moral hazard” by funding companies which emit large amounts of carbon dioxide, according to a group of MPs.
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14 Jan 21
The Bank of England needs to improve its own understanding of its quantitative easing programme to improve its effectiveness, according to the bank’s internal watchdog.
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24 Nov 20
The UK’s GDP is forecast to decrease by as much as 3.6% in the final three months of this year as result of the second lockdown, according to advisory firm PwC.
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18 Nov 20
Monetary policy will attempt to combat long-term scarring to UK GDP from Covid-19 forecast at £40bn a year, according to a deputy governor of the Bank of England.
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10 Nov 20
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced the UK is set to issue its first sovereign green bond next year, in a bid to help meet the government’s 2050 carbon net zero target.
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5 Nov 20
The Bank of England has announced plans for another £150bn of quantitative easing, as Covid-19 impacts further on the UK’s economic recovery.
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18 Oct 20
Ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded the UK’s credit rating for the third time in eight years, citing factors including a deterioration in the quality of the government’s fiscal decision-making.
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29 Sep 20
The UK is unlikely to see negative interest rates “imminently”, according to David Ramsden, deputy governor for markets and banking at the Bank of England.
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18 Sep 20
The Bank of England has outlined plans to explore how negative interest rates could be implemented for the first time, to help the UK’s economic recovery from Covid-19.
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6 Aug 20
The Bank of England will continue to review the potential of negative interest rates, to help stimulate the UK’s economic recovery from Covid-19, it said today.
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27 Jul 20
The UK’s economic recovery from Covid-19 may not take place until late-2024, as hopes of a V-shaped recovery “diminish”, according to economists at advisory firm EY.
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21 Jul 20
Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane has suggested negative interest rates could be implemented if further negative shocks are felt in the economy.
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9 Apr 20
The Treasury is set to extend its emergency overdraft from the Bank of England to help finance the fight against coronavirus.
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15 Nov 18
Facts and figures from the November 2018 edition of Public Finance magazine.
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3 Aug 18
Mario Pisani and Neeraj Patel from the Treasury talk about their department and the Bank of England’s revamped working relationship, which aims to ensure the Bank is more resilient to...
2 Sep 21The Bank of England has named former Goldman Sachs economist Huw Pill as its next chief economist and a member of its Monetary Policy Committee.
6 Aug 21The Bank of England has signalled it could tighten its monetary policy slightly faster than had been expected as the recovery from Covid-19 gets underway and inflation continues to run above its 2%...
5 Jul 21The UK’s debt repayments will be favourable, despite risks stemming from an elevated deficit and future Brexit-related shocks, according to ratings agency Moody’s.
24 Nov 20The UK’s GDP is forecast to decrease by as much as 3.6% in the final three months of this year as result of the second lockdown, according to advisory firm PwC.
10 Nov 20Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced the UK is set to issue its first sovereign green bond next year, in a bid to help meet the government’s 2050 carbon net zero target.
18 Oct 20Ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded the UK’s credit rating for the third time in eight years, citing factors including a deterioration in the quality of the government’s fiscal decision-making.
27 Jul 20The UK’s economic recovery from Covid-19 may not take place until late-2024, as hopes of a V-shaped recovery “diminish”, according to economists at advisory firm EY.
9 Apr 20The Treasury is set to extend its emergency overdraft from the Bank of England to help finance the fight against coronavirus.
15 Nov 18Facts and figures from the November 2018 edition of Public Finance magazine.
