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THURSDAY, MAR 13

WASHINGTON - U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew testifies on the White House fiscal 2015 budget proposal before the House Budget Committee - 1400 GMT.

PARIS - ECB executive board member Benoit Coeure speaks on "Achieving a fully integrated banking union - the three pillars of the European Central Bank" at The Economist's Future of Banking Summit "Adapting to change: tomorrow's banking model" in Paris, France - 0815 GMT.

FRANKFURT - Bundesbank holds a press conference to present annual financial statement in Frankfurt - 1000 GMT.

LONDON - Bank of England Banking Service Chief Cashier Executive Director, Chris Salmon speaks at the Central Banking Publication's National Asset-Liability Management conference in London - 1140 GMT.

WASHINGTON - Senate Banking Committee holds hearing on nominations of Stanley Fischer for Federal Reserve vice chairman, and Jerome Powell and Lael Brainard for members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors - 1400 GMT.

LONDON - Bank of England Special Resolutions Unit Director, Andrew Gracie and Banque de France Deputy Director General, Sylvie Matherat participates in a panel discussion on "Two ends of the spectrum - the challenges of risk management and effective resolution" at SUERF/EY Conference in London.

VIENNA - ECB President Mario Draghi speaks at the awarding ceremony of the Schumpeter Award organized by Schumpeter Gesellschaft in Vienna, Austria - 1700 GMT.

HELSINKI - ECB governing council member Erkki Liikanen will be present at the launch of Antti Heinonen's book "The First Euros" - 0800 GMT.

WELLINGTON - Reserve Bank of New Zealand announces Monetary Policy Statement and Official Cash Rate (OCR).

TOKYO - Bank of Japan releases the Minutes of its February policy-setting meeting - 2350 GMT.

FRIDAY, MAR 14

STANFORD, United States - Federal Reserve vice-chair nominee Stanley Fischer speaks before a dinner at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) Economic Summit 2014 - 0145 GMT.

STOCKHOLM - Sweden's central bank governor Stefan Ingves to give a speech on "Have we learned the lessons of earlier financial crises?" - 0915 GMT.

BERLIN - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble speaks on Europe at Evangelical Academy, in Berlin - 1500 GMT.

STOCKHOLM - Sweden's central bank Deputy Governor Karolina Ekholm will hold the speech "Pioneer or bad example? Swedish experiences of taking indebtedness into account in monetary policy decisions" - 1400 GMT

MONDAY, MAR 17

LONDON - Bank of England Deputy Governor for Financial Stability John Cunliffe will take part in a conference at Chatham House titled "New Rules on Market Structure, Trading and Funding" - 0930 GMT.

TUESDAY, MAR 18

WASHINGTON - U.S. Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) holds two-day meeting on interest rates.

HALIFAX, Canada - Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz delivers a speech to the Halifax Chamber of Commerce.

FRANKFURT - Former Portuguese Finance Minister Vitor Gaspar gives lecture on "The Making of a Continental Financial System: Lessons from Early American History" - 1600 GMT.

WEDNESDAY, MAR 19

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announces decision on interest rates.

FRANKFURT - ECB governing council and general council meeting. No interest rate announcements scheduled (to Mar 20).

TOKYO - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda speaks at a seminar on the global economy hosted by the Institute for International Monetary Affairs - 0500 GMT.

REYKJAVIK - Iceland Central Bank announces interest rate decision.

OTSU, Japan - Bank of Japan board member Takahide Kiuchi meets business leaders in Otsu - 0130 GMT.

THURSDAY, MAR 20

DUESSELDORF, Germany - ECB executive board member Sabine Lautenschlaeger takes part in a panel discussion on "Too small for the world? Germany's banks caught between globalisation, regulation and image worries" - 1500 GMT.

TOKYO - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda speaks at the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry - 0715 GMT.

ZURICH - Swiss National Bank (SNB) holds Monetary policy assessment - 0830 GMT.

FRIDAY, MAR 21

WASHINGTON - 8th conference organized by the International Research Forum on Monetary Policy (IRFMP) will be held at the Federal Reserve Board (to Mar 22). Speakers:- Federal Reserve Board Governor Jeremy Stein, Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Narayana Kocherlakota and ECB vice president Vitor Constancio.

MONDAY, MAR 24

TORONTO, Canada - Bank of Canada Deputy Governor Tim Lane delivers a speech at York University, Toronto.

KITA-KYUSHU, Japan - Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata speaks at a seminar in Kita-Kyushu - 0500 GMT.

HELSINKI - Bank of Finland Governor and ECB council member Erkki Liikanen to hold a press conference on monetary policy and global economy in Helsinki - 0900 GMT.

TUESDAY, MAR 25

BRATISLAVA - Slovak Central Bank (NBS) Governor Jozef Makuch to hold a news conference on quarterly update of Slovak quarterly macroeconomic forecast - 1200 GMT.

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