This article reviews developments in sterling financial markets, including the Bank’s official operations, since the 2010 Q2 Quarterly Bulletin up to 27 August 2010. The article also summarises market intelligence on selected topical issues relating to market functioning.

We use daily transactional ledger data from the Bank of England's Archive to test whether and to what extent the Bank of England during the mid-nineteenth century adhered to Walter Bagehot's rule that a central bank in a financial crisis should lend cash freely at a high interest rate in...

We use daily transactional ledger data from the Bank of England's Archive to test whether and to what extent the Bank of England during the mid-nineteenth century adhered to Walter Bagehot's rule that a central bank in a financial crisis should lend cash freely at a high interest rate in...