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Basel Committee press release: "Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision endorses revised liquidity standard for banks" including
Annex 1: Summary description of the LCR
Annex 2: Complete set of agreed changes to the Liquidity Coverage Ratio
New Basel Committee Charter
Speaking note by Mervyn King and audio file of the press conference

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31 Jan	Regulatory consistency assessment programme (RCAP) - Analysis of risk-weighted assets for market risk (Basel Committee)
30 Jan	International Journal of Central Banking (IJCB) Special Supplemental Issue - Central Banking: Before, During, and After the Crisis
24 Jan	Speech by Mr Stefan Ingves, Chairman of the Basel Committee and Governor of the Sveriges Riksbank
21 Jan	Preliminary international banking statistics at end-September 2012

18 Jan	Comments received on the CPSS-IOSCO consultative document "Recovery and resolution of financial market infrastructures"
09 Jan	Principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting (Basel Committee)
07 Jan	Christian Noyer to continue as Chairman of BIS Board
07 Jan	BIS appoints Peter Zöllner to head its Banking Department

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Research

30 Jan

International Journal of Central Banking (IJCB)

Special Supplemental Issue - Central Banking: Before, During, and After the Crisis

18 Dec

Why do firms issue abroad? Lessons from onshore and offshore corporate bond finance in Asian emerging markets (Working Paper)

Corporate bond issuers in emerging economies in Asia have often had a choice between an onshore market and an offshore one. Since 1998, however, many of these issuers have increasingly turned to the onshore market. This paper investigates systematically what factors ...

18 Dec

The future of financial globalisation (BIS Paper)

The BIS 11th Annual Conference took place in Lucerne, Switzerland on 21-22 June 2012. The event brought together senior representatives of central banks and academic institutions, who exchanged views on the conference theme of "The future of financial globalisation".

18 Dec

Capital flows and the risk-taking channel of monetary policy (Working Paper)

This paper examines the relationship between low interests maintained by advanced economy central banks and credit booms in emerging economies. In a model with crossborder banking, low funding rates increase ...

18 Dec

Global safe assets (Working Paper)

Will the world run out of 'safe assets' and what would be the consequences on global financial stability? We argue that in a world with competing private stores of value, the global economic system tends to favor the ...

18 Dec

The great leveraging (Working Paper)

What can history can tell us about the relationship between the banking system, financial crises, the global economy, and economic performance? Evidence shows that in the advanced economies we live in a world that is more financialized than ...

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Speeches

Central bankers' speeches
01 Feb	Vítor Constâncio: Establishment of the Single Supervisory Mechanism - the first pillar of the Banking Union Matthew Elderfield: Single Supervisory Mechanism - benefits and challenges from a practical supervisory perspective Hirohide Yamaguchi: Path to overcoming deflation and decisive additional steps in monetary accommodation H R Khan: Financial inclusion and payment systems - recent trends, current challenges and emerging issues
30 Jan	Peter Praet: Speech on the occasion of the "Annual Danish Top Executive Summit 2013" Ravi Menon: The global economy - securing a return to normalcy Masaaki Shirakawa: The roles, missions and challenges of the central bank K C Chakrabarty: Financial inclusion of urban poor in India Vítor Constâncio: Establishing the Single Supervisory Mechanism Amando M Tetangco, Jr: Vigilance amid stability and growth
28 Jan	Prasarn Trairatvorakul: Economic transformation and inclusive growth in frontier economies Stanley Fischer: Issues of fiscal policy Jens Weidmann: Pressing ahead - priorities for 2013 Christian Noyer: New Year's wishes to the Paris financial community Kerstin af Jochnick: Monetary policy and macroprudential policy

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BIS Management speeches
22 Nov	by Jaime Caruana: Assessing global liquidity from a financial stability perspective Global liquidity has become a focus of the international policy debate. Despite accommodative monetary policies and a pickup in search-for-yield behaviour, several...
16 Nov	by Jaime Caruana: International monetary policy interactions: challenges and prospects Systematic incorporation of spillovers is an essential but missing aspect of most monetary policy decision-making processes. The policy influences that need to be taken into account involve short-term policy rates...
09 Nov	by Claudio Borio: On time, stocks and flows: Understanding the global macroeconomic challenges Five years after the financial crisis, the global economy remains unbalanced and many of the advanced countries are still struggling to return to robust, sustainable growth...
09 Nov	by Jaime Caruana: Financial inclusion: the role of the Basel Process I am pleased to welcome participants to this unique event that brings international standard-setting bodies together with advanced as well as emerging and developing countries...

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Statistics

31 Jan	Release of property price data
21 Jan	Preliminary international banking statistics at end-September 2012
15 Jan	BIS effective exchange rate indices
04 Jan	Statistics on payment, clearing and settlement systems in the CPSS countries - Figures for 2011

10 Dec	Quarterly Review: summary tables and detailed tables
28 Nov	BIS, ECB and IMF publish third part of Handbook on Securities Statistics
13 Nov	OTC derivatives market activity in the first half of 2012
09 Nov	Improving the BIS international banking statistics (CGFS report)

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Basel Committee

31 Jan	Regulatory consistency assessment programme (RCAP) - Analysis of risk-weighted assets for market risk
24 Jan	Speech by Mr Stefan Ingves, Chairman of the Basel Committee and Governor of the Sveriges Riksbank
09 Jan	Principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting
07 Jan	Basel III: The Liquidity Coverage Ratio and liquidity risk monitoring tools

06 Jan	Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision endorses revised liquidity standard for banks (press release) including Annex 1 on " Summary description of the LCR " and Annex 2 on " Complete set of agreed changes to the Liquidity Coverage Ratio " New Basel Committee Charter Speaking note by Mervyn King and audio file of the press conference
03 Jan	Financial Instruments: Impairment (letter to the International Accounting Standards Board and the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board)

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