News of santiago bausili

Milei taps unseasonal source in search of dollars

30-10-2024 10:06 Faced by a shortage of foreign reserves, the Central Bank is turning to an unusual source of funding for this time of year: a risky trade by crop exporters.

BANKING & FINANCE

Central Bank working to enable dollar debt cards

14-10-2024 11:13 Argentina’s Central Bank is working with banks and credit card companies to enable debt cards denominated in dollars.

ECONOMY & FINANCE

Argentina ships gold bars abroad to be financially certified

02-09-2024 20:30 Argentina’s Central Bank sent part of its gold reserves abroad in recent weeks to be validated for financial use.

ECONOMY & POLITICS

Argentina officials move to shore up bank support for debt plan

01-07-2024 15:35 Economy Minister Luis Caputo and Central Bank Governor Santiago Bausili sought to shore up support Monday in a meeting with executives from private banks for a monetary policy pivot announced late Friday.

MONETARY POLICY

Milei shifts policy in second phase of Argentina plan

29-06-2024 15:30 Milei administration embarks on second phase of economic plan, announcing it will swap out notes held at the Central Bank for new Treasury debt.

Foreign relations & diplomacy

Top officials to meet People's Bank of China chief amid swap talks

26-04-2024 17:20 Argentina’s Central Bank Governor Santiago Bausili and Finance Secretary Pablo Quirno are scheduled to meet with People’s Bank of China Governor Pan Gongsheng in Beijing on Monday.

POLITICS & ECONOMY

'The last stretch': Milei praises 'heroic' effort in prime-time address

22-04-2024 22:08 President uses prime-time broadcast to highlight first quarterly budget surplus since 2008. "This is the last stretch of a heroic effort," Milei tells nationwide.

RELATIONS WITH CHINA

Central Bank chief Bausili among top officials headed to China

18-04-2024 18:02 Top government officials are preparing to visit China in the next few weeks as President Javier Milei ditches his aggressive rhetoric against Beijing in a bid to deepen ties with a key trade partner.

ANALYSIS

Milei’s ‘maquinita’ – How many pesos is Central Bank printing?

22-02-2024 15:31 Since Javier Milei entered the Casa Rosada as president, Argentina’s monetary authorities have continued minting the national currency – while altering its destination. Why is there talk of the "benign" printing of money?

by Martín Fernández Nadale

PRESIDENT SPEAKS

Milei vows to shutter Central Bank ‘sooner or later’

11-01-2024 15:16 President Javier Milei vows Argentina's Central Bank will be shut down "sooner rather than later" and that dollarisation isn't off the table.

IMF DEBT PROGRAMME

IMF staff show support for Milei’s 'ambitious stabilisation plan'

10-01-2024 22:04 Staff-level agreement paves the way for a new disbursement of US$4.7 billion in funds from Argentina’s "fallen" programme, says Economy Minister Luis Caputo.

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

‘There is no money’: Argentina begins economic shock remedy

13-12-2023 11:41 Measures include 54% peso devaluation, additional 2% a month; Plan seen as step in the right direction, perhaps insufficient by traders.

POLITICS

Who is Santiago Bausili, the new head of the Central Bank?

06-12-2023 15:48 Finance secretary in the Mauricio Macri 2015-2019 administration, Santiago Bausili is a close friend of Luis 'Toto' Caputo. Hours before he was confirmed as the next governor of Argentina's Central Bank, the courts dropped charges against him.

NEW GOVERNMENT

Milei picks Santiago Bausili to lead Central Bank

06-12-2023 08:03 Argentina’s president-elect Javier Milei picks Santiago Bausili, an ally of incoming economy minister Luis Caputo, to lead the nation’s Central Bank.