At its meeting ending on 4 November 2026, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted by a majority of 8–1 to increase Bank Rate by 0.25 percentage points, to 4%. One member voted to increase Bank Rate ...

Monetary policy is action that a country's central bank or government can take to influence how much money is in the economy and how much it costs to borrow. As the UK’s central bank, we use two main ...

The Bank of England has today launched a consultation supporting central counterparties (CCPs) acceptance of tokenised forms of eligible collateral. Tokenisation could offer opportunities for quicker ...

Bank of England sets out approach to tokenised ...

Most reported AI systems were not assessed by firms to be of high materiality. Around 7% of reported AI systems were assessed by respondents as ‘high materiality’, compared to 16% in 2024. However, ...

The Research Cluster on Climate Change (RCCC) is one of the research clusters established by the ESCB Heads of Research Committee to foster collaboration among central banks on shared topics of ...

Non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) account for an increasingly large share of credit provision and play a central role in quantitative easing (QE). We develop a DSGE model with banks, NBFIs and a ...

Clare Lombardelli: Speech at the Bank Watchers Conference, London (12.30pm). Huw Pill: Speech at the Institute of International Monetary Research, London (6.30pm). 12th BdF-BoE-BdI International ...

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Central banks all over the world, including the Bank of England, are exploring how tokenisation could improve how we move financial assets (such as money or shares) around in the economy. We want to ...

These monthly statistics on the amount of, and interest rates on, borrowing and deposits by households and businesses are used by the Bank’s policy committees to understand economic trends and ...

For resolution plans to be feasible and credible, UK firms are required to maintain sufficient resources that can absorb losses and provide for recapitalisation in resolution. To achieve this, the ...