Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
Research puts a price on systemic threat
Research from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) estimates that the cost of insuring against steep losses at major American banks had increased to up to $250 billion as of July 2008.
Data on home-host banking activity inadequate
Data on international banking activity remain largely inadequate for surveillance and policymaking purposes, new research from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) posits.
Japanese companies with strong ties lose out
Japanese firms with strong bank ties are less profitable, finds a new paper from the Bank for International Settlements.
Crisis predictable, mirrors previous episodes: BIS
Economists at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) have found that the current financial turmoil was, like other bouts of market stress, preceded by easily identifiable build ups in credit expansion and risk-taking.
BIS Quarterly Review, March 2009
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) published its latest Quarterly Review on Monday.
Crockett on lessons from history
Sir Andrew Crockett, a former general manager of the Bank for International Settlements now at JPMorgan, a bank, warns that officials must acknowledge the benefits of innovation and the inconsistencies between macro- and micro-level fixes.
Balassa-Samuelson revisited
A new paper from the Bank for International Settlements finds that Balassa-Samuelson effects are clearly present in 11 euro accession countries and that these explain around 24% of inflation differentials vis-a-vis the euro area.
Monetary policy should respond to risk-taking
Unless monetary policy regimes respond to increased levels of risk-taking by market participants, fluctuations in the business cycle might be amplified in future, argues a paper from the Bank for International Settlements.
Caruana gets top job at BIS
Jaime Caruana, the director of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) monetary and capital markets department, will succeed Malcolm Knight as general manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
Caruana, Ortiz, Ingves interviewed for BIS job?
Jaime Caruana, Guillermo Ortiz and Stefan Ingves are the candidates for the top job at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), a leading German financial daily reported on Friday.
US was prone to housing meltdown
The housing meltdown happened in the US, in part, because of its tax, legal and regulatory systems, research published by the Bank for International Settlements finds.
ECB's Trichet on information-sharing's importance
Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, believes it essential for central banks to share pertinent information about their domestic economies with their peers.
Smaller MPCs rely more on staff views
The use of staff-policy recommendations by central banks' monetary policy committees is negatively related to the size of the rate-setting board, research published by the National Bank of Hungary finds.
BIS - Quarterly Review
Worries about the economic outlook and related uncertainties gained prominence over the summer months, the Bank for International Settlements states in its latest Quarterly Review.
Turmoil in the Basel tower
The handling of the resignation of Malcolm Knight was badly bungled, says Klaus Engelen
HKMA's Pang praises BIS's Asian office
Peter Pang, a deputy chief executive at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), has commended the Bank for International Settlements' (BIS) Representative Office in Asia.
BIS's Knight to leave on 1 July
Malcolm Knight, the outgoing general manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), is to step down three months ahead of schedule.
Weaker unions will limit inflation: BIS's Knight
The outgoing head of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) offered some succour to central bankers on Monday, saying that the decline of unionisation will mean the second-round effects of the recent surge in global food and commodity prices will…
Bank and FSA not to blame for Rock: Lord George
Lord Edward George, a former governor of the Bank of England and a director at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), believes that Northern Rock's management was responsible for the collapse of the mortgage lender.
BIS calls for countercyclical framework
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has called for regulators and central banks to work together to limit procyclicality.
Know your surfer - the key to success in websites
Understanding how people use your website is the key to improving it, says Timo Laurmaa, the head of the Bank for International Settlements' web communications team
Knight departure prompts BIS governance queries
A leading German daily has questioned the integrity of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) after it emerged that Malcolm Knight, the departing general manager, will not take gardening leave before joining Deutsche Bank, a leading global bank.
BIS chief to leave early
Malcolm Knight, the general manager and chief executive of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), will step down in September, nine months before the end of his term.