Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
BIS must fix data gaps: Bank paper
Bank of England paper identifies specific information gaps in cross-border banking statistics published by Bank for International Settlements; improvements thought to be under way
BIS’s Caruana lauds Basel III
Bank for International Settlements general manager Jaime Caruana spells out importance of Basel III capital reforms
BIS on offshore domestic currency use
Bank for International Settlements paper says monetary stability risks from offshore credit growth can be managed through prudent policy
Money market rate best policy target: BIS research
Bank for International Settlements research finds lower macroeconomic volatility where central banks use money market rather than repo rate as policy target
Central banks must work with stakeholders to improve repo clearing and settlement: BIS body
Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems identifies seven key problems in repo markets; says central banks, regulators and stakeholders must join forces to hammer out solutions
Shirakawa named Asian Consultative Council chair
Bank of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa will take over from Bank Negara Malaysia chief Zeti Akhtar Aziz as chair of council housed within Bank for International Settlements
International bodies fulfil G20 recommendation on information gaps
European Central Bank, Bank for International Settlements and IMF publish second part of Securities Statistics Handbook to address information gaps
Banks upped exposure to troubled eurozone states in first quarter: BIS
Bank for International Settlements says first quarter figures show exposure to Portugal, Greece and Spain grew, in spite of default worries
FX market going global: BIS
Bank for International Settlements’ triennial survey of foreign exchange markets shows decline in prevalence of local transactions, dollar and sterling
Russia inches back toward dollar assets
Bank of Russia report shows percentage of dollar assets increased by end 2009, reversing trend set in two previous years; central bank also upped sovereign debt holdings and risk appetite declined
BIS’s Borio on the paradox of financial instability
Bank for International Settlements’ Claudio Borio warns that system appears strongest when it’s most vulnerable
Ageing to drive down asset prices
Bank for International Settlements research says demographic trends will reduce house prices significantly
BIS: cross-border flows shaped by global and country specific factors
Bank for International Settlements study shows global and country specific risk factors explain cross-border bank flow patterns
BIS: Global banking at a crossroads
Bank for International Settlements study says financial crisis has changed the model for international banking
Goodhart: Anglo-Saxon model of banking is flawed
Bank of England former MPC member Charles Goodhart says Asian model of banking is better suited to staving off crises
BIS: Top-down approach to countercyclical capital buffers preferred
Bank for International Settlements paper on capital buffers says a bottom-up approach is more favourable to a top-down as bank specific factors neglect variable differences in capital structures of firms
BIS: Inflation targeting only one option
Bank for International Settlements study says inflation targeting is not necessarily the only prescription for price stability
Central bank auctions reveal banks' liquidity risks
BIS study says aggressive bidding in central bank auctions good indication of liquidity risks at banks
BIS: currency collapses benefit output growth
Bank for International Settlements study on currency collapses finds devaluation helps growth in the long run, rather than dampening it
EXCLUSIVE: Pick and choose from social media tools: BIS’s Laurmaa
Bank for International Settlements’ head of web publishing Timo Laurmaa says Twitter more beneficial to profit-making companies; short releases help when reaching out to wider-than-usual audience
Canada’s Carney named CGFS chair
Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney to step into Federal Reserve vice-chairman Donald Kohn’s shoes and head Basel-based Committee on the Global Financial System; follows Kohn’s retirement
Caruana’s three policy challenges
Bank for International Settlements’ general manager outlines the key problems with which policymakers must grapple
BIS makes record profit
Bank for International Settlements records net profit of $2.9 trillion
BIS sceptical on reserves role for SDR
Trying to create global currency from accounting unit would not solve problems highlighted by the crisis