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Reporter for Central Banking covering Europe, reserves management, ESG, cybersecurity and fintech. I also like running, coffee and photography. Opinions are my own unless otherwise indicated.
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Hello @andybtravels.bsky.social , will you sell me an Interrail pass?

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Central Banking conducted its annual survey of reserve managers in May: www.centralbanking.com/central-bank... 77% of reserve managers believe de-dollarisation is increasing gradually, with emerging economies seeking alternatives. #reservemanagement #centralbanking

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ECB cuts rates 25bp www.centralbanking.com/central-bank...

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ECB gives Bulgaria the go-ahead to join the eurozone www.centralbanking.com/central-bank...

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The always excellent @kyla.bsky.social wrote about this the other day: open.substack.com/pub/kyla/p/g...

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Stablecoins better than getting your face ripped off by oligopolists, argues @dsquareddigest.bsky.social on.ft.com/4n6nx1d

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Lagarde wearing a necklace that says "in charge" to subtly dispel the WEF rumours is so funny

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The enshittification of customer support has been one of most annoying trends since the pandemic (but really since ~2018 more broadly)

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An amazing line-up

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She gave an "interview" to "journalists" from pro-HU government outlet Mandiner which obviously lapped it all up. "We replaced the EU bureaucrats with British ones". Ugh.

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Excellent reporting by @thomas-chow.bsky.social based on the important work of @rs-lawsociety.bsky.social et al

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A simple, radical proposal by Olivier #Blanchard and Angel #Unide for creating a large, liquid eurobonds market. This would lift a key obstacle to the emergence of the euro as a major international currency and would help create an alternative to the dollar. www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

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The new nightjets are finally running between Amsterdam and Vienna/Innsbruck, removing the need to go via Hannover/Cologne/Brussels on the way to London in a mini cabin - the best way to travel on a night train (see #9!)

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Great piece

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WEF staff should entertain the idea of unionising

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Terminally online before it was cool. Funnily enough, after leaving at the end of 2022, I tried getting back on there last summer. It asked me for age verification - which I did - and promptly locked me out. I had to get my mum to send me her ID to prove that I had permission to sign up in '09.

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Having been socialised in this (I was 11 when I signed up to twitter and spent much of my teenagerhood there) this leads to some incredibly unhealthy ways of thinking about social ties. Eternally grateful for the friends I have now and those who kept me grounded.

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Montenegrin parliament’s failure to confirm deputy governors went against “the standards of institutional independence, which represent key aspects of the European integration process”, says central bank www.centralbanking.com/central-bank...

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From Bluesky to the Guardian! In my new op-Ed, I argue that the “male glaze” of media and politics is empirically, normative, and politically wrong and that progressives should focus more on the left turn of young women.

submitted 18 days ago • 23 comments

Interesting to witness the parallel evisceration of the lib-nat coalition in Australia and the conservatives in the UK.

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This is an absolutely delightful paper from the Bank of Italy, where researchers asked LLMs if they would use customer deposits to pay for corporate liabilities as if they were heads of financial institutions.

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Why do we have such difficulty making sense of our current moment? I brainstorm some possible answers www.theideasletter.org/essay/certai...

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Robert O. Keohane shares his reflections on Joseph S. Nye, Jr.'s life and career: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

I’m starting a thread to keep track of web-enshittification symptoms that frustrate me.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

I'm glad that my £8 a month went towards funding Jim's £50 trip. Excellent reporting.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Becoming a British citizen will cost me £1,735, excluding the citizenship test and the materials required for it. The London Edition Saucony Endorphin Speed 4s cost me £125. Maybe we do need immigration reform...

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A quote for the future

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