Bancos centrales

The Fed Vice Chairmann Stanley Fischer said in Frankfurt on Friday that the nonbank financial system is less vulnerable to shocks today.

"Regulators need to respond to existing regulatory gaps and to keep pace with further changes," Fischer noted.

The Fed vice chairman also said that regulators have not enough information about the activities of hedge funds.

The Bank of England (BoE) Chief Economist Andy Haldane said on Friday that central banks around the world might coordinate tools for dealing with specific markets.

"There may be greater scope to coordinate macroprudential tools," Haldane said. He added that macroprudential tools should "operate on an asset-class basis, rather than on a national basis".

Haldane surprised market participants last week when he said a drop in inflation meant the central bank could cut its interest rate further.

The Bank of England (BoE) Deputy Governor, Ben Broadbent, said in London on Friday that it is unlikely that the U.K. economy will suffer from a low inflation. "The likelihood of a broad and protracted deflation, afflicting wages as well as prices, is pretty low," Broadbent said.

He noted that inflation declined due to falling oil prices. Negative price growth is temporary and positive for the economy, he added.

Broadbent expects the consumer inflation to increase in early 2016.

The BoE deputy governor also said that wages will grow as unemployment declined.

The Bank of England (BoE) Governor Mark Carney said in at a Bundesbank conference Frankfurt on Friday that the central bank's next move will be interest rate hike.

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) Governing Board Member Fritz Zurbruegg said on Thursday that the central bank is ready to intervene in the foreign exchange market if needed.

The SNB reported in its annual report that it spent CHF25.8 billion ($26.9 billion) on defending the cap in late 2014.

Zurbruegg noted that the Swiss franc remains overvalued. He said that he does not expect a sustained negative inflation or a deflationary spiral.

The European Central Bank (ECB) President, Mario Draghi, said in Rome on Thursday that there was already evidence that quantitative easing was working.

He pointed out that stimulus measures by the ECB are strengthening the "cyclical recovery", not structural.

Draghi noted that the central bank cannot buy Greek government bonds because "it does not purchase government bonds of countries that are in a programme with the IMF and the European Commission when the review of this programme has not been completed".

The ECB president said that the ECB also does not purchase due to low Greece's credit rating and due to high percentage of purchased bonds.

Draghi expects that the central bank's asset buying program will reach €60 billion by the end of March.

The Bank of Canada (BoC) Governor Stephen Poloz defended the central bank's interest rate cut in London on Thursday. He said that interest rate cut was needed to deal with falling oil prices. Oil is Canada's top export.

Poloz noted that falling oil prices weighed on the economic growth and the interest rate cut has given the central bank time to monitor the situation.

The BoC governor pointed out the central bank will continue to follow its monetary policy to achieve its 2% inflation target.

The Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Dennis Lockhart said at an investment education conference in Detroit on Thursday that he is confident that the recent weak U.S. economic data is temporary. He added that the weak economic data do not indicate a slowdown in the U.S. economy.

But Lockhart noted that consumers are "bit cautious".

The Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank president also said that he wants "to be able to move deliberately" towards interest higher rates when the Fed starts to raise its interest rate.

He believes that the divergence of monetary policy among major central banks was behind the recent increase of the U.S. dollar.

Lockhart is a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee this year.

The European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council member and Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann said on Wednesday that the central bank should monitor closely "signs of speculative excesses on asset markets" as European stock and bond markets rose rapidly in the past weeks.

He noted that he did not see a deflationary spiral in the Eurozone. Low inflation is driven by falling energy prices, the Bundesbank president said.

Quantitative easing by the ECB could lead that governments will lose motivation to implement reforms, Weidmann pointed out.

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) released its Quarterly Bulletin. The central bank expects the Swiss GDP to grow under 1% this year, and unemployment is expected to rise. The SNB noted that GDP could decline in the first quarter of 2015.

According to Quarterly Bulletin, consumer price inflation is expected to be - 1.3% in six to twelve months. Inflation forecasts for the next three to five years were downgraded to 0.5% from 1.1%.

The European Central Bank (ECB) Chief Economist Peter Praet said in London on Wednesday that politicians and monetary authorities should show "verbal discipline" about the crisis in Greece. He also said that the Eurozone has "a lack of crisis preparation".

Praet pointed out that quantitative easing by the ECB was implemented at the optimum time.

The ECB chief economist noted that there is "a cyclical recovery" in the Eurozone.

The European Central Bank (ECB) raised the ceiling for Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) to Greek banks to more than €71 billion, according to a person familiar with the decision.

The previous limit was €69.8 billion.

The European Central Bank (ECB) has instructed Greece's banks not to purchases Greek government bonds, according to people familiar with the matter.

The new restriction from the ECB was approved by the central bank's governing council.