Michael Boyle is an experienced financial professional with more than 10 years working with financial planning, derivatives, equities, fixed income, project management, and analytics. The idea of ...

Although negative nominal interest rates are widely scorned, they are regularly used to supplement the monetary-policy arsenal when inflation is low and economic activity is weak. Given the dearth of ...

The generational change at the top of the Swiss National Bank does not alter its commitment to low inflation, governing board ...

The Bank of Japan announced March 19 it will end negative interest rates and review other ultra-loose monetary policies that have been in place for more than a decade to buoy the stagnant economy ...

The European Central Bank cut rates on Thursday, the Bank of Canada on Wednesday, and the Bank of England is likely to do so next week.

Swiss National Bank (SNB) Petra Tschudin commented on the policy outlook on Friday. She said that “policy choices include FX ...

The Swiss franc could appreciate in coming months as the Swiss National Bank is unlikely to return to negative interest rates, Commerzbank analyst Michael Pfister says in a note. The SNB will ...

German press reports that the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has ruled negative rates charged by various banks in the past were "invalid" and were contrary to "good faith", thereby opening the ...

Once again, the idea of negative interest rates has made headlines, following the Swiss National Bank’s (SNB) decision in December to cut its policy rate to a mere 0.5%. When this issue has come ...