OMFIF survey finds three candidates level pegging to succeed Lagarde

The exact timing of Christine Lagarde’s departure from the European Central Bank presidency remains uncertain. But keenness to succeed her is not, although there are many reasons why the post will probably be demanding and unenviable. Multiple sources have coalesced on four front-runners: Klaas Knot, former Dutch central bank governor, Isabel Schnabel, ECB board member, Joachim Nagel, Bundesbank president, and Pablo Hernández de Cos, formerly Banca de España governor and now general manager at the Bank for International Settlements. Officials have hinted to OMFIF of a less likely fifth possibility, François ... (full story)