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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...
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4 Aug 17
The Bank of England has downgraded its growth forecast for the UK economy amid Brexit uncertainty.
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28 Jun 17
A programme to streamline the Bank of England is on course to be completed £25m under budget but shortcomings have arisen, the National Audit Office has found.
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23 Jan 17
The Bank of England should end its extraordinary policies of ultra low interest rates and quantitative easing immediately, according to the Centre for Policy Studies think-tank.
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24 Jun 16
France has overtaken the UK as the world’s fifth largest economy after sterling plunged overnight as a vote for Brexit became increasingly certain.
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9 Mar 16
The prospect of Britain leaving the European Union following the upcoming referendum represents the “biggest domestic risk” to the economy, the Bank of England governor Mark Carney has...
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19 Jan 16
Slower UK growth means interest rates will not be raised in the short term, the Bank of England governor Mark Carney has said today.
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24 Nov 15
Facts and figures from the December 2015 edition of Public Finance magazine, including pay growth, Bank of England forecasts, international health provision, student satisfaction, and refugee numbers.
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30 May 13
After five years of downbeat and depressing press conferences, Sir Mervyn King actually sounded quite chirpy in his last hurrah as Bank of England governor
25 Jan 21The 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.
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.
4 Aug 17The Bank of England has downgraded its growth forecast for the UK economy amid Brexit uncertainty.
28 Jun 17A programme to streamline the Bank of England is on course to be completed £25m under budget but shortcomings have arisen, the National Audit Office has found.
23 Jan 17The Bank of England should end its extraordinary policies of ultra low interest rates and quantitative easing immediately, according to the Centre for Policy Studies think-tank.
24 Jun 16France has overtaken the UK as the world’s fifth largest economy after sterling plunged overnight as a vote for Brexit became increasingly certain.
9 Mar 16The prospect of Britain leaving the European Union following the upcoming referendum represents the “biggest domestic risk” to the economy, the Bank of England governor Mark Carney has...
24 Nov 15Facts and figures from the December 2015 edition of Public Finance magazine, including pay growth, Bank of England forecasts, international health provision, student satisfaction, and refugee numbers.
30 May 13After five years of downbeat and depressing press conferences, Sir Mervyn King actually sounded quite chirpy in his last hurrah as Bank of England governor
