MALAYSIAN CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR NAMED ONE OF WORLD'S BEST CENTRAL BANKERS

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 13 (Bernama) -- New York-headquartered Global Finance
Magazine has named Bank Negara Governor Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz as one of
the world's best central bankers over the past year among five other central
bank heads in five countries and the European Central Bank president Jean-Claude
Trichet.

She and the other six bankers were graded "A" in the magazine's annually-
published feature entitled "Central Banker Report Card" for successes in areas
such as inflation control, economic growth goals, currency stability and
interest rate management.

The grade ranges from A to F, with A is the highest and F is the lowest. A
denotes excellent performance and F outright failure, said Global Finance in
a statement Monday.

Other central bank heads to receive the highest grade are Australian Glenn
Stevens, Israel's Stanley Fischer, South Korea's Lee Seong-tae, Taiwan's Fai-Nan
Perng, Turkey's Durmus Yilmaz and European Union's Trichet.

The magazine has readers in 163 countries comprising financial practitioners
of multinational companies, with offices in London and Milan, other than its
headquarters in New York.

-- BERNAMA