In Brazil, central bank's income is legally mandated to be transferred every six months to the Treasury Single Account on the liabilities side of the BCB's balance sheet.

Central bank profits are usually distributed to the government – the Fed has handed more than a trillion dollars to the U.S. Treasury since 2000 – but losses are retained on the balance sheet.

Central bank balance sheets appear to have troughed. (TS Lombard, The Market Ear) Expansion of central banks' balance sheets is widely considered bullish for risk assets, including bitcoin.

The Federal Reserve would like to reduce the size of its balance sheet, but recent events are dictating otherwise. The Fed's balance sheet grew by roughly $300 billion last week, driven by emergency ...

Fed numbers showed the speed of the shift to a new balance sheet reality. Last Thursday, Fed data showed a massive surge in lending to banks, driven notably by $153 billion in what’s called ...

Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller said Wednesday that the central bank's balance sheet will continue to draw down but currency demand means that it will almost certainly not return to pre-COVID ...

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) was the first central bank to implement QE, and they’ve been employing it for more than twenty years. It was used because of weak economic growth and deflationary pressures.

Economists at Deutsche Bank think the Fed will announce a pause in shrinking the balance sheet on March 19, with the program to resume in September. They don't think QT will stop until March 2026.

Fed Governor Christopher Waller said on Oct. 14 "there is no economic theory for how large a central bank balance sheet should be." In terms of when QT might end, New York Fed President John ...

A group of Bitcoin advocates in Switzerland have launched a campaign to convince the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to add Bitcoin to its balance sheet. The nonprofit organization 2B4CH aims to hold a ...

PremiumTrust Bank, a three-year-old Nigerian bank, has met the N200 billion recapitalisation target set by the Central Bank ...