Dan Hinge
@danhinge.bsky.social
Benchmarks editor at Central Banking - covering economics, data and the BIS. Short stories published by Liars' League and Every Day Fiction
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As a journalist you’re always looking for ways to sum up the now, but the story is really often more incremental. This is from a Derbyshire county council paper. I was, inevitably, looking for “library to close” or “doge identified £Xm”, but the starting point is at least as important
December 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
As a journalist you’re always looking for ways to sum up the now, but the story is really often more incremental. This is from a Derbyshire county council paper. I was, inevitably, looking for “library to close” or “doge identified £Xm”, but the starting point is at least as important
Strongly believe in this kind of thing, which incidentally is a major theme of Pullman's The Rose Field, which I'm reading atm. Destroy the arts and you lose the ability to see the connections between all things.
December 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Strongly believe in this kind of thing, which incidentally is a major theme of Pullman's The Rose Field, which I'm reading atm. Destroy the arts and you lose the ability to see the connections between all things.
Great piece on the demise of Zipcar. I was surprised yesterday to receive an email from them saying they were closing down in London, but it seems I'm one of many who used to use them and now don't
Among other issues with Zipcar's model in London: Having to negotiate individually with 32 boroughs, some of which charged thousands of pounds per car. Meanwhile, Croydon council outsourced much of their employee car fleet to Zipcar and may be a bit screwed. www.londoncentric.media/p/zipcar-lon...
Why Zipcar gave up on London
The car-sharing scheme was hit by rapidly increased costs, a new congestion charge, and a lack of support from councils.
www.londoncentric.media
December 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Great piece on the demise of Zipcar. I was surprised yesterday to receive an email from them saying they were closing down in London, but it seems I'm one of many who used to use them and now don't
Interesting mention from the BoE here that a unified ledger might work better than synchronisation for atomic settlement at large scale. But UL remains more challenging from a governance perspective www.centralbanking.com/fintech/7974...
Synchronisation can support tokenised securities settlement – BoE - Central Banking
But central bank says it is unclear whether it outperforms unified ledger
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December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Interesting mention from the BoE here that a unified ledger might work better than synchronisation for atomic settlement at large scale. But UL remains more challenging from a governance perspective www.centralbanking.com/fintech/7974...
What is the "atomic fact" of economics? Interesting suggestions in Unhedged, here's my stab:
Technology and institutions are the basis of improved welfare.
www.ft.com/content/e196...
Technology and institutions are the basis of improved welfare.
www.ft.com/content/e196...
The essence of economics
Why write about markets at all?
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December 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
What is the "atomic fact" of economics? Interesting suggestions in Unhedged, here's my stab:
Technology and institutions are the basis of improved welfare.
www.ft.com/content/e196...
Technology and institutions are the basis of improved welfare.
www.ft.com/content/e196...
Life insurers are now more systemically important and more exposed to liquidity risk, BIS's Gaston Gelos and Frank Packer write in a piece for CB www.centralbanking.com/central-bank...
The life insurance industry’s transformation: financial stability implications - Central Banking
Gaston Gelos and Frank Packer examine an industry that is increasingly complex and interconnected
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November 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Life insurers are now more systemically important and more exposed to liquidity risk, BIS's Gaston Gelos and Frank Packer write in a piece for CB www.centralbanking.com/central-bank...
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Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.
CNB governor Aleš Michl spoke to us about the central bank's bitcoin-buying experiment. The CNB is not looking to “simulate reality”, but to “touch it”, he said.
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CNB digital asset portfolio is about real learning, says Michl - Central Banking
Governor says bank is not looking to simulate reality but ‘touch it’ with experimental bitcoin holding
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November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
CNB governor Aleš Michl spoke to us about the central bank's bitcoin-buying experiment. The CNB is not looking to “simulate reality”, but to “touch it”, he said.
www.centralbanking.com/central-bank...
www.centralbanking.com/central-bank...
Dog and frisbee fans may enjoy this new paper out of the BIS www.bis.org/fsi/fsibrief...
Revisiting the regulatory capital stack
The post-Great Financial Crisis regulatory reforms have directly contributed to a more resilient financial system and supported sustainable growth, but some concrete aspects can be improved. The compl...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Dog and frisbee fans may enjoy this new paper out of the BIS www.bis.org/fsi/fsibrief...
We timed the launch to coincide with our autumn conference, which is currently taking place in the famously Spanish-speaking nation of [checks notes] Brazil
I am pleased/slightly apprehensive to announce that we have found the button that activates Spanish mode on our website: www.centralbanking.com/es-la
buzz lightyear and jessie are standing next to each other in the dark .
Alt: Buzz Lightyear in Spanish mode dancing around Jessie
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November 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
We timed the launch to coincide with our autumn conference, which is currently taking place in the famously Spanish-speaking nation of [checks notes] Brazil
I am pleased/slightly apprehensive to announce that we have found the button that activates Spanish mode on our website: www.centralbanking.com/es-la
buzz lightyear and jessie are standing next to each other in the dark .
Alt: Buzz Lightyear in Spanish mode dancing around Jessie
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I am pleased/slightly apprehensive to announce that we have found the button that activates Spanish mode on our website: www.centralbanking.com/es-la
Europe's banks had their chance to challenge Visa/Mastercard and blew it - that's one reason the digital euro is going ahead. So I don't have much sympathy with their griping now... www.ft.com/content/fe65...
Europe’s battle for control of its money
Banks fear ECB plans for a digital euro will undermine a European alternative to Visa, Mastercard and PayPal
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November 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Europe's banks had their chance to challenge Visa/Mastercard and blew it - that's one reason the digital euro is going ahead. So I don't have much sympathy with their griping now... www.ft.com/content/fe65...
Shift out of dollars mostly reflects hedging rather than outright asset sales, BIS's Tombini says www.centralbanking.com/central-bank...
Dollar remains king for now, says Tombini - Central Banking
BIS Americas chief tells Central Banking Autumn Meetings of lessons from events of past year
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November 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Shift out of dollars mostly reflects hedging rather than outright asset sales, BIS's Tombini says www.centralbanking.com/central-bank...
New channel of monetary policy transmission just dropped - cost of carry www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-pape...
Inventories matter for the transmission of monetary policy: uncovering the cost-of-carry channel
Staff working papers set out research in progress by our staff, with the aim of encouraging comments and debate.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
New channel of monetary policy transmission just dropped - cost of carry www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-pape...
Central banks really like gold right now. Chart from Arslanalp, Eichengreen, and Simpson-Bell www.nber.org/papers/w34478
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Central banks really like gold right now. Chart from Arslanalp, Eichengreen, and Simpson-Bell www.nber.org/papers/w34478
As someone who pays income tax, pays into a pension and is contemplating the purchase of a cargo bike this could be a painful budget
Rachel Reeves is setting the Cycle to Work scheme on fire as part of the war on salary sacrifice policies! on.ft.com/4oKXNrC
Rachel Reeves to curb bike purchases through salary sacrifice in Budget
Introduction of new cap comes after retailers warned some higher-rate taxpayers were exploiting the perk
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November 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
As someone who pays income tax, pays into a pension and is contemplating the purchase of a cargo bike this could be a painful budget
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Very interesting paper. Confirms what we knew from cross-country studies - large, rapid effects. The really interesting part is the firm-level analysis, which shows similar, if somewhat lower, magnitudes.
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Very interesting paper. Confirms what we knew from cross-country studies - large, rapid effects. The really interesting part is the firm-level analysis, which shows similar, if somewhat lower, magnitudes.
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
BoE systemic stablecoin proposals out. Backing 60/40 split UK gov debt and unremunerated reserves. Access to central bank liquidity. Holding limits www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2025/no...
Bank of England launches consultation on regulating systemic stablecoins
The Bank of England (the Bank) has today published a consultation paper (CP) setting out its proposed regulatory regime for sterling-denominated systemic stablecoins.
www.bankofengland.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
BoE systemic stablecoin proposals out. Backing 60/40 split UK gov debt and unremunerated reserves. Access to central bank liquidity. Holding limits www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2025/no...
Really interesting Schnabel speech today on the future of the ECB balance sheet. Here's @lkoro.es's write-up: www.centralbanking.com/central-bank...
ECB to tilt future QE to shorter-term bonds – Schnabel - Central Banking
Collateralised lending to play key role in Eurosystem asset composition
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November 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Really interesting Schnabel speech today on the future of the ECB balance sheet. Here's @lkoro.es's write-up: www.centralbanking.com/central-bank...
As someone who has just manually downloaded and shared 51 utility bills in a bid to persuade Thames Water to let me pay them some money, I think the UK's digital ID can't come fast enough
October 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
As someone who has just manually downloaded and shared 51 utility bills in a bid to persuade Thames Water to let me pay them some money, I think the UK's digital ID can't come fast enough
Tesla's sales could have been as much as 83% higher without Musk's political shenanigans, this paper reckons www.nber.org/papers/w34413
The Musk Partisan Effect on Tesla Sales
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Tesla's sales could have been as much as 83% higher without Musk's political shenanigans, this paper reckons www.nber.org/papers/w34413
This is really interesting. So what is it about a bank that means it is allowed to create money (M1 at least) but a tech company can't? I guess lack of regulation, but that is being solved in some jurisdictions. Competition with e-CNY maybe a bigger reason? www.ft.com/content/8bc1...
Chinese tech giants pause stablecoin plans after Beijing steps in
Regulators raise concerns about the rise of privately controlled currencies
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October 19, 2025 at 5:46 AM
This is really interesting. So what is it about a bank that means it is allowed to create money (M1 at least) but a tech company can't? I guess lack of regulation, but that is being solved in some jurisdictions. Competition with e-CNY maybe a bigger reason? www.ft.com/content/8bc1...
If you read one thing today, you obviously have to make it @jim.londoncentric.media's story about the mafia snail farmers open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman
Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.
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October 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
If you read one thing today, you obviously have to make it @jim.londoncentric.media's story about the mafia snail farmers open.substack.com/pub/londonce...