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Highlights

The BIS Annual Report for 2009/10 was released in the BIS Annual General Meeting



Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

26 Jul

Press release:
The Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision reach broad agreement on Basel Committee capital and liquidity reform package


16 Jul

Press release on Progress on regulatory reform and consultative paper


18 Jun

Press release:
Adjustments to the Basel II market risk framework announced by the Basel Committee


11 Jun

Nout Wellink on:
The Basel Committee and Regulatory Reform


03 May

Stefan Walter on:
Basel II and Revisions to the Capital Requirements Directive


19 Apr

Comments received on the Basel Committee's December 2009 consultative documents:

Strengthening the resilience of the banking sector

International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring


Speeches

29 Jul

Central bankers' speeches: Hu on the managed floating exchange rate regime, Kim on a new central banking paradigm, Ndung'u on Kenya's economy, Nijathaworn on Thailand's economic outlook, Tetangco on continuing education, innovation and research, Tumpel-Gugerell on policy challenges facing the euro area and Yılmaz on the Turkish economy


22 Jun

by Hervé Hannoun: The expanding role of central banks since the crisis: what are the limits?


18 Jun

by Jaime Caruana: Macroprudential policy: what we have learned and where we are going