The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has named Hungary's former central bank Governor András Simor as Vice President for Policy. Reporting directly to the President, he will also be a member of the Bank’s Executive Committee.

Hungary’s Economics minister György Matolcsy has been nominated by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as the next Governor of the National Bank of Hungary (NBH). Matolcsy follows András Simor whose six-year mandate expires on March 3.

The sovereign debt crisis in Europe is having a negative impact on even non-eurozone countries like Hungary, but that does not diminish the need for Budapest to introduce the euro, Hungarian National Bank Governor András Simor said in Tokyo on Sunday.

At its meeting on 28 August, the Monetary Council reviewed the latest economic and financial developments and voted to reduce the central bank base rate by 25 basis points from 7.00% to 6.75%, with effect from 29 August 2012.

The Monetary Council of the National Bank of Hungary increased the prime interestó rate by 25 basis points to 5.5 percent on Monday with effect from November 30. The base rate had stood at 5.25 percent since April 27.

The Governor of the National Bank of Hungary (MNB), András Simor has been named ‘Central Bank Governor of the Year for Emerging Europe 2010’ by the Euromoney publication ‘Emerging markets’. He received the award in Washington, D.C. this past week-end.