BANK OF FINLAND
Press release number 6
11 Feb 2010

Journal ‘Euro & talous 1/2010’ looks at Euribor rates, the capital adequacy framework for banks, institutional investors and global economic imbalances

How is ECB liquidity policy reflected in Euribor rates? Will the capital adequacy framework for banks change? How are institutional investors responding to the growing financial needs of governments? How can global economic imbalances be corrected? Some of the answers to these questions can be found in the latest issue of the journal ‘Euro & talous’ – the Finnish version of the Bank of Finland Bulletin. The next issue will contain the following articles:

Epätavanomaisten rahapoliittisten toimenpiteiden vaikutus euriborkorkoihin (‘Non-standard monetary policy measures – the effect on Euribor rates’)
Mika Pösö, Head of Communications

Paineita pankkien vakavaraisuussääntelyn muuttamiseen (‘Pressures for changing the capital ade-quacy framework for banks’)
Esa Jokivuolle, Research Supervisor, and Jukka Vauhkonen, Economist

Valtioiden rahoitustarpeet ja institutionaaliset sijoittajat (‘Governments’ financial needs and insti-tutional investors’)
Heli Huhtala, Head of Investments

Skenaarioita maailmantalouden tasapainottomuuksien korjaantumisesta (‘Global economic imba-lances – correction scenarios’)
Mika Kortelainen, Economist, and Marko Melolinna, Economist

‘Euro & talous’ is also available (in Finnish) in electronic format on the Bank of Finland website at http://www.suomenpankki.fi/fi/julkaisut/euro_ja_talous/index.htm?year=2010.

Further information Mika Pösö, Head of Communications, tel. +358 10 831 2632.