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Monetary policy · May 2026

Central-bank divergence and the reserve-adequacy gap

As the Fed and ECB hold, several frontier central banks have begun cutting. The result is widening divergence — and the reserve-adequacy gap becomes the cleanest line between resilient and exposed economies.

Our reserve monitor scores each bank against the IMF ARA metric, so the divergence shows up as a number, not a narrative.

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