13 September 2010

Zeti among world's best central bankers

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 13, 2010): New York-headquartered Global Finance Magazine has named Bank Negara governor Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz as one of the world's best central bankers over the past year among five other central bank heads and the European Central Bank (ECB) president Jean-Claude Trichet.

She and the other six bankers were graded "A" in the magazine's annually-published feature entitled Central Banker Report Card for successes in areas such as inflation control, economic growth goals, currency stability and interest rate management.

The grade ranges from A to F, with A being the highest and F the lowest. A denotes excellent performance and F outright failure, said Global Finance in a statement today.

Other central bank heads that received the highest grade are Australia's Glenn Stevens, Israel's Stanley Fischer, South Korea's Lee Seong-tae, Taiwan's Fai-Nan Perng, Turkey's Durmus Yilmaz and ECBs Trichet.

The magazine has readers in 163 countries comprising financial practitioners of multinational companies, with offices in London and Milan, other than its headquarters in New York. — Bernama

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