MALAYSIAN CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR MAINTAINS GRADE A IN GLOBAL FINANCE CENTRAL BANK STUDY

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 26 (Bernama) -- Bank Negara (Central Bank) Malaysia
Governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz is among six heads of central banks to be named World
Top Central Bankers for 2011.

She received the impressive rating from the Global Finance magazine
together with Amando Tetangco of the Philippines, Taiwan's Fai-Nan Perng,
Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens and Bank of Israel Governor
Stanley Fischer.

Zeti was similarly rated last year.

The US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke received a "C" in Global
Finance magazine's annual grading of the world's central bankers.

Bernanke's grade was unchanged from last year, while outgoing European
Central Bank President, Jean-Claude Trichet, was given a "B-" after last year's
"A".

Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa also received a "C" while Mark
Carney of Canada and the UK's Mervyn King were both given a "B."

The report card for 37 central bankers, first published in 1994, was based
on their scale of success in areas such as controlling inflation, meeting
economic growth goals and managing interest rates.