Governor of Taiwan's central bank ranked A- by Global Finance

Taipei, Aug. 28 (CNA) Yang Chin-long (楊金龍), governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan), received an A- grade from New York-based Global Finance magazine, up from B+ last year.

Based on the Central Banker Report Cards 2025 published Wednesday, the magazine returned Yang to an A grade based on the bank's policies and decisions this year.

Yang, who has worked for Taiwan's central bank since 1989 and became governor in 2018, received an A grade in 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023 as well as an A- in 2021 plus a B+ grade in 2024.

Yang's predecessor Perng Fai-nan (彭懷南) has the distinction of being the only central banker in the world to have earned the top grade 14 times since the annual report was first released in 1994, gaining straight A's from 2005-2017.

At the top of Global Finance magazine's list for 2025 with A+ grades were Denmark's Christian Kettel Thomsen, the United States' Jerome Hayden Powell and Vietnam's Nguyễn Thị Hồng.

In addition, the heads of national banks in Chile, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Morocco, Paraguay, Peru and Sri Lanka received A grades.

Including Yang, 14 central bank heads around the world were ranked A-.

According to Global Finance, its editors grade the world's leading central bankers from A to F for success in areas such as inflation control, economic growth goals, currency stability and interest rate management, with A+ being the highest grade and F the lowest.