Euromoney’s 2012 FX survey results

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China’s $1.7 trillion hangover

China’s $1.7 trillion hangover

Up to 40% of China’s $1.7 trillion LGFV loans are at high risk of default. What’s a panicking Beijing to do?

September 2009

Martin Redrado: The governor who survived in Argentina

Martin Redrado has laboured hard since 2004 to restore and sustain the country’s financial stability in the face of global meltdown and difficult government policies. The central bank governor speaks to Jason Mitchell in Buenos Aires about the challenges he faces and his ambitions for the economy.


"There’s no previous professional experience that prepares you to be a central banker. Six years running the Argentine central bank is the equivalent of Alan Greenspan’s 18 years at the Fed"

Martin Redrado

MARTIN REDRADO’S BIGGEST achievement as governor of the Banco Central de la República Argentina is perhaps his having held the position for so long. If he completes his term in September 2010 he will have been the longest-serving governor since the first one was appointed in 1935.

Redrado, 47, is the 55th governor since Ernesto Bosch in the 1930s, an indication of the social and economic instability that has afflicted Argentina since before the Second World War.

Redrado is facing one of the most testing periods since he assumed office in September 2004: the finances of the central government have become increasingly shaky and it is having to consider...


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