Bloomberg New Zealand’s central bank needs to step up the scale and pace of its quantitative easing (QE) to achieve a meaningful fall in interest rates, market participants say. Since beginning purchases last week, the Reserve Bank has bought NZ$1.4 billion of government bonds at four auctions. While yields have moved lower, the market is wary that an expected NZ$17 ...

Bloomberg Officials from leading Southeast Asian central banks have agreed to coordinate efforts to boost their economies, all struggling under the blow from the coronavirus pandemic. Bank Indonesia Governor Perry Warjiyo told reporters in an online briefing that he held talks a day earlier with officials from five central banks in the region. He didn’t give details of what kind ...

Bloomberg Singapore’s central bank said lenders will offer additional relief for consumers and companies battered by the sharp economic slowdown, including a freeze on mortgage and business loan payments and cuts to credit card rates. Banks and finance companies can defer both principal and interest payments on residential mortgages through December 31, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said in ...