José Viñals is Financial Counsellor and Director of the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department. He was previously Deputy Governor at the Bank of Spain and served on a range of advisory and policy committees at the central bank and within the European Union, including as Chairman of the European Central Bank’s International Relations Committee. He has published widely on macroeconomics, monetary policy, and financial issues.
Latest posts:
- Warning Signs as Global Financial Risks Increase
- The Broader View: The Positive Effects of Negative Nominal Interest Rates
- Global Financial Stability: Vulnerabilities, Legacies, and Policy Challenges
- Flash Crashes and Swiss Francs: Market Liquidity Takes a Holiday
- Financial Risks Rise Amid Uneven Global Economic Recovery
- The New Global Imbalance: Too Much Financial Risk-Taking, Not Enough Economic-Risk Taking
- Global Financial Stability: Beginning To Turn The Corner
- Finish the Job on Financial Regulation
- Transitions to Financial Stability: A Bumpy Ride
- Banking on Reform: Can Volcker, Vickers and Liikanen Resolve the Too-Important-to-Fail Conundrum?
- How to Sustain Recent Financial Gains: Fix Old Risks and Meet New Challenges
- Time For A Spring Cleaning: The Global Economy Will Thank You
- Time Not on Our Side: Tough Decisions Needed to Strengthen Financial Stability
- Risks to Financial Stability Increase, Bold Action Needed
- Global Financial Stability: What’s Still To Be Done?
- How to Exit the Danger Zone: IMF Update on Global Financial Stability
- The Danger Zone: Financial Stability Risks Soar
- Tough Political Decisions Needed to Fix the Financial System
- Avoiding Another Year of Living Dangerously: Time to Secure Financial Stability
- Macroprudential Policy—Filling the Black Hole
- Government Bonds: No Longer a World Without Risk
- Time Waits for No Man: How to Secure Financial Stability in 2011
- Financial System Fragilities – Achilles’ Heel of Economic Recovery
- Just Do It—Shaping the New Financial System
- Financial Reform: What Must Be Done
- It’s Hip to Be Square—Why Good Financial Sector Supervision Is Important
- IMF Sees Financial Risks Still Elevated
- Unwinding Public Interventions in the Financial Sector
- Too Important to Fail?
- Exit from Crisis Interventions
- Going Beyond the Rules