Speeches

BIS management speeches - last 2 years

5 Oct 2006

Marrying the micro- and macroprudential dimensions of financial stability: six years on

Address by Mr Malcolm D Knight, General Manager of the BIS, at the 14th International Conference of Banking Supervisors, Mérida, 4-5 October 2006.


26 Sep 2006

Global Banking: paradigm shift - towards meeting the emerging challenges

Special address by Mr Malcolm D Knight, General Manager of the BIS, at the Inaugural Session of the Fifth Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) - Indian Bankers Association (IBA) Conference "Global Banking: Paradigm shift - towards meeting the emerging challenges", Mumbai, 26–28 September 2006.


8 Sep 2006

International reserve diversification and disclosure

Speech by Mr Malcolm D Knight, General Manager of the BIS, to the Swiss National Bank/Institute for International Economics Conference, Zurich, 8 September 2006.


30 Aug 2006

Measured wealth, real wealth and the illusion of saving

Keynote speech by Mr William R White, Economic Adviser and Head of Monetary and Economic Department of the BIS, at the Irving Fisher Committee Conference on "Measuring the financial position of the household sector", Basel, 30-31 August 2006.


5 Jul 2006

Remarks on Frederick Mishkin's paper: "Financial stability and globalisation: getting it right"

Remarks by Mr Malcolm D Knight, General Manager of the BIS, at the Bank of Spain Conference on "Central banks in the 21st century", Madrid, 8–9 June 2006.


30 Jun 2006

Financial Globalisation

Opening remarks by Mr William R White, Economic Adviser and Head of Monetary and Economic Department of the BIS, at the BIS Fifth Annual Research Conference on "Financial Globalisation", Brunnen, 19 June 2006.


26 Jun 2006

General Manager's speech

Speech by Mr Malcolm D Knight, General Manager of the BIS, on the occasion of the Bank's Annual General Meeting, Basel, 26 June 2006.


26 Jun 2006

General Manager's statement

Statement by Mr Malcolm D Knight, General Manager of the BIS, at the BIS press conference on the occasion of the Bank's Annual General Meeting, Basel, 26 June 2006.


25 May 2006

Promoting Liquidity in Domestic Bond Markets

Keynote speech by Mr Malcolm Knight, General Manager of the BIS, at the Government Borrowers Forum held on 23-25 May in St Petersburg.


22 May 2006

Globalisation and Financial Markets

Speech by Malcolm D Knight, General Manager of the BIS, at the 34th Economic Conference of the Austrian National Bank, Vienna, 22 May 2006


19 May 2006

Why have long-term interest rates been so low? Is the global interest rate cycle beginning to turn?

Speech by Malcolm D Knight, General Manager of the BIS, at the National Bank of Slovakia, Bratislava, 12 May 2006


19 May 2006

Presentation in a session 'Asia, the US Dollar and Global Imbalances'

Speech by Malcolm D Knight, General Manager of the BIS, at the Brussels Economic Forum, Brussels, 18 May 2006