Taipei: Yang Chin-long, governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan), received an A- grade from New York-based Global Finance magazine, an improvement from last year's B+.

According to Focus Taiwan, the Central Banker Report Cards 2025, published on Wednesday, highlighted Yang's return to an A grade level based on the bank's policies and decisions this year. Yang has been part of Taiwan's central bank since 1989 and took on the role of governor in 2018. He has consistently performed well, securing an A grade in 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023, and an A- in 2021.

Yang's predecessor, Perng Fai-nan, holds the record as the only central banker globally to have earned the top grade 14 times since the report's inception in 1994, with consecutive A's from 2005 to 2017.

Denmark's Christian Kettel Thomsen, the United States' Jerome Hayden Powell, and Vietnam's Nguy?n Th? H?ng topped Global Finance magazine's list for 2025, each receiving an A+ grade. Other central bank heads, including those from Chile, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Morocco, Paraguay, Peru, and Sri Lanka, received A grades.

Including Yang, a total of 14 central bank governors worldwide were ranked A-. Global Finance evaluates the success of central bankers in areas like inflation control, economic growth objectives, currency stability, and interest rate management, with grades ranging from A+ to F.