News archive - 2004

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17 Dec 2004

Workshop 'Concentration Risk in Credit Portfolios': Background information

17 Dec 2004

Selected Literature on Concentration Risk in Credit Portfolios

16 Dec 2004

Press releases:

BIS to administer EMEAP's investments in ABF2

BIS to administer EMEAP's investments in ABF2 (BIS Press Releases 16 Dec 2004)

15 Dec 2004

Press releases:

Capital treatment of certain items under IFRS

Capital treatment of certain items under IFRS (BIS Press Releases 15 Dec 2004)

15 Dec 2004

CPSS Publications:

Payment systems in Sri Lanka

06 Dec 2004

Press releases:

BIS Quarterly Review December 2004

BIS Quarterly Review December 2004 (BIS Press Releases 6 Dec 2004)

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06 Dec 2004

Press releases:

Triennial and semiannual central bank surveys on positions in the OTC derivatives market in June 2004 - Preliminary global results

Triennial and semiannual central bank surveys on positions in the OTC derivatives market in June 2004 - Preliminary global results (BIS Press Releases 6 Dec 2004)

06 Dec 2004

Regular OTC Derivatives Market Statistics

The Global OTC Derivatives Market at end-June 2004

06 Dec 2004

BIS Quarterly Review, December 2004

BIS Quarterly Review

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03 Dec 2004

Working Papers:

Asset prices and banking distress: a macroeconomic approach

by Goetz von Peter

02 Dec 2004

Working Papers:

Are speculative attacks triggered by sunspots? A new test

by Nikola Tarashev

01 Dec 2004

Working Papers:

Stress-testing financial systems: an overview of current methodologies

by Marco Sorge

24 Nov 2004

Press releases:

Central banks and securities regulators release recommendations for central counterparties

Central banks and securities regulators release recommendations for central counterparties (BIS Press Releases 24 Nov 2004)

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23 Nov 2004

CPSS Publications:

The Securities settlement system of the National Bank of Belgium

23 Nov 2004

CPSS Publications:

Recommendations for Central Counterparties

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11 Nov 2004

BIS speeches:

by Malcolm D Knight: The vulnerability of emerging markets to shocks: what has changed since the mid-1990s?

08 Nov 2004

Press releases:

Nout Wellink to continue as Chairman of the Board and President of the BIS

Nout Wellink to continue as Chairman of the Board and President of the BIS (BIS Press Releases 8 Nov 2004)

08 Nov 2004

Press releases:

BIS appoints Peter Dittus as Secretary General

BIS appoints Peter Dittus as Secretary General (BIS Press Releases 8 Nov 2004)

02 Nov 2004

Working Papers:

Did investors regard real estate as 'safe' during the 'Japanese Bubble' in the 1980s?

by Serdat Dinc and Patrick McGuire

01 Nov 2004

IFC Bulletin:

Proceedings of the IFC Conference on "Central Bank Issues Regarding National and Financial Accounts", Basel, September 2004

01 Nov 2004

Working Papers:

CDO rating methodology: Some thoughts on model risk and its implications

by Ingo Fender and John Kiff

26 Oct 2004

BIS speeches:

by William R White: Making macroprudential concerns operational

21 Oct 2004

Review of BIS governance - report by legal experts

21 Oct 2004

Press releases:

BIS consolidated banking statistics for the second quarter of 2004

BIS consolidated banking statistics for the second quarter of 2004 (BIS Press Releases 21 Oct 2004)

21 Oct 2004

Press releases:

Joint Forum issues report on credit risk transfer

Joint Forum issues report on credit risk transfer (BIS Press Releases 21 Oct 2004)

21 Oct 2004

BCBS Publications:

Credit risk transfer - consultative paper

21 Oct 2004

BIS consolidated banking statistics - second quarter 2004

19 Oct 2004

CPSS Publications:

Statistics on payment and settlement systems in selected countries - Figures for 2003 - Preliminary version

14 Oct 2004

BIS speeches:

by Malcolm D Knight: Markets and institutions: Managing the evolving financial risk

08 Oct 2004

FSI Connect

08 Oct 2004

About the Financial Supervision Training Directory

06 Oct 2004

Press releases:

Consolidated KYC paper

Consolidated KYC paper (BIS Press Releases 6 Oct 2004)

06 Oct 2004

BCBS Publications:

Consolidated KYC Risk Management - final document

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06 Oct 2004

BIS speeches:

by Malcolm D Knight: Regulation and supervision in insurance and banking: Greater convergence, shared challenges

04 Oct 2004

Press releases:

Communique of the Ministers and Governors of the Group of Ten

Communique' of the Ministers and Governors of the Group of Ten (BIS Press Releases 4 Oct 2004)

28 Sep 2004

Press releases:

Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity in April 2004 - Preliminary global results

Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity in April 2004 - Preliminary global results (BIS Press Releases 28 Sep 2004)

27 Sep 2004

BIS speeches:

by Malcolm D Knight: Banking and insurance regulation and supervision: Greater convergence, common challenges

26 Sep 2004

A Review of Credit Registers and their Use for Basel II

23 Sep 2004

Press releases:

Global banking supervisors pledge deeper cooperation

Global banking supervisors pledge deeper cooperation (BIS Press Releases 23 Sep 2004)

21 Sep 2004

BIS speeches:

by William R White: Economic and financial statistics: a glass half full or half empty?

10 Sep 2004

Press releases:

Financial Stability Forum held its twelfth Meeting

Financial Stability Forum held its Twelfth Meeting (BIS Press Releases 10 Sep 2004)

09 Sep 2004

Workshop on 'The pricing of credit risk'

06 Sep 2004

Press releases:

BIS Quarterly Review, September 2004

BIS Quarterly Review September 2004 (BIS Press Releases 6 Sep 2004)

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06 Sep 2004

BIS Quarterly Review, September 2004

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02 Sep 2004

Working Papers:

Recent fiscal policy in selected industrial countries

by David Lebow

01 Sep 2004

Working Papers:

The monetisation of Japan's government debt

by David Lebow

10 Aug 2004

Joint Forum history

02 Aug 2004

Press releases:

Joint Forum provides outsourcing guidance to the financial sector

Joint Forum provides outsourcing guidance to the financial sector (BIS Press Releases 2 Aug 2004)

02 Aug 2004

BCBS Publications:

Outsourcing in Financial Services - consultative document

02 Aug 2004

Working Papers:

An empirical comparison of credit spreads between the bond market and the credit default swap market

by Haibin Zhu

01 Aug 2004

Working Papers:

The term structure of credit spreads in project finance

by Blaise Gadanecz and Marco Sorge

29 Jul 2004

Press releases:

BIS consolidated banking statistics for the first quarter of 2004

BIS consolidated banking statistics for the first quarter of 2004 (BIS Press Releases 29 Jul 2004)

29 Jul 2004

BIS consolidated banking statistics - first quarter 2004

28 Jul 2004

BCBS Publications:

Implementation of Basel II: Practical Considerations

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26 Jul 2004

Press releases:

International Journal of Central Banking

International Journal of Central Banking (BIS Press Releases 26 Jul 2004)

20 Jul 2004

Press releases:

Capital treatment of certain items under IFRS

Capital treatment of certain items under IFRS (BIS Press Releases 20 Jul 2004)

18 Jul 2004

Implementation of the new capital adequacy framework in non-Basel Committee member countries

FSI Occasional Paper No 4

14 Jul 2004

BCBS Publications:

Principles for the management and supervision of interest rate risk - final document

04 Jul 2004

Working Papers:

Market distress and vanishing liquidity: anatomy and policy options

by Claudio Borio

02 Jul 2004

Working Papers:

Securing sustainable price stability: should credit come back from the wilderness?

by Claudio Borio and Philip Lowe

01 Jul 2004

IFC Bulletin:

Historical background to the statistical activities of the BIS (1930-2000); Financial data: Approaches in selected countries

01 Jul 2004

Working Papers:

Deposit Insurance and Bank Intermediation in the Long Run

by Robert Cull, Lemma Senbet and Marco Sorge

29 Jun 2004

Contact the FSI

29 Jun 2004

Press releases:

FSI Connect: a new online resource for banking supervisors

FSI Connect: a new online resource for banking supervisors (BIS Press Releases 29 Jun 2004)

28 Jun 2004

BIS 74th Annual General Meeting

28 Jun 2004

Per Jacobsson lecture by Charles Goodhart - Zurich, 27 June 2004

28 Jun 2004

Speech by Mr Nout Wellink, President of the BIS, to the 74th Annual General Meeting

28 Jun 2004

Press releases:

BIS holds Annual General Meeting and releases its 74th Annual Report

BIS holds Annual General Meeting and releases its 74th Annual Report (BIS Press Releases 28 Jun 2004)

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28 Jun 2004

BIS 74th Annual Report

BIS 74th Annual Report - June 2004

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28 Jun 2004

BIS speeches:

by Malcolm D Knight: Activities of the BIS - The year 2003-04 in review

26 Jun 2004

Press releases:

G10 central bank governors and heads of supervision endorse the publication of the revised capital framework

G10 central bank governors and heads of supervision endorse the publication of the revised capital framework (BIS Press Releases 26 Jun 2004)

24 Jun 2004

Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank statistics on external debt

18 Jun 2004

Conference on 'Understanding Low Inflation and Deflation'

18 Jun 2004

Basel Committee newsletter:

Update on joint Basel Committee and International Organization of Securities Commission work on the prudential treatment of some trading book items

14 Jun 2004

Press releases:

BIS Quarterly Review, June 2004

BIS Quarterly Review June 2004 (BIS Press Releases 14 June 2004)

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14 Jun 2004

BIS Quarterly Review, June 2004

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10 Jun 2004

BCBS Publications:

Basel II: International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards: a Revised Framework

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10 Jun 2004

Fact sheet - Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

10 Jun 2004

Comment letters to other organisations

10 Jun 2004

QIS 4: National impact studies and field tests in 2004 or 2005

10 Jun 2004

Basel II: Revised international capital framework

08 Jun 2004

Press releases:

Regulatory capital in light of forthcoming changes in accounting standards

Regulatory capital in light of forthcoming changes in accounting standards (BIS Press Releases 8 Jun 2004)

03 Jun 2004

Working Papers:

Monetary policy and asset price bubbles: calibrating the monetary policy trade-offs

by Andrew Filardo

02 Jun 2004

Working Papers:

Monetary and real shocks, the business cycle and the value of the euro

by Renato Filosa

01 Jun 2004

Working Papers:

Macroeconomic implications of rising household debt

by Guy Debelle

31 May 2004

Press releases:

FSF concludes third Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting

FSF concludes third Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting (BIS Press Releases 31 May 2004)

24 May 2004

Press releases:

Joint Forum releases report on financial disclosure

Joint Forum releases report on financial disclosure (BIS Press Releases 24 May 2004)

24 May 2004

BCBS Publications:

Financial disclosure in the banking, insurance and securities sectors: issues and analysis

17 May 2004

Accounting, Transparency and Bank Stability

14 May 2004

Press releases:

OTC derivatives statistics at end-December 2003

OTC derivatives statistics at end-December 2003 (BIS Press Releases 14 May 2004)

11 May 2004

Press releases:

Consensus achieved on Basel II proposals

Consensus achieved on Basel II proposals (BIS Press Releases 11 May 2004)

11 May 2004

Regular OTC Derivatives Market Statistics

The Global OTC Derivatives Market at end-December 2003

10 May 2004

Basel Committee events

29 Apr 2004

BCBS Working Papers:

Bank Failures in Mature Economies

28 Apr 2004

Press releases:

BIS consolidated banking statistics for the fourth quarter of 2003

BIS consolidated banking statistics for the fourth quarter of 2003 (BIS Press Releases 28 Apr 2004)

28 Apr 2004

BIS consolidated banking statistics - fourth quarter 2003

30 Mar 2004

Press releases:

Financial sector foreign direct investment key to bringing emerging economies into global financial system, says CGFS

Financial sector foreign direct investment key to bringing emerging economies into global financial system, says CGFS (BIS Press Releases 30 Mar 2004)

30 Mar 2004

Press releases:

Financial Stability Forum holds its eleventh meeting

Financial Stability Forum holds its eleventh meeting (BIS Press Releases 30 Mar 2004)

29 Mar 2004

CGFS Publications:

Foreign direct investment in the financial sector of emerging market economies

29 Mar 2004

CGFS Publications:

Foreign direct investment in the financial sector of emerging market economies - Central bank papers submitted by Working Group members

23 Mar 2004

BIS speeches:

by Gunter D Baer: Asian financial cooperation as seen from Europe

19 Mar 2004

BIS speeches:

by Malcolm D Knight: Responding to external shocks: what has changed since the crisis in the mid-1990s?

18 Mar 2004

BIS speeches:

by Malcolm D Knight: The financial system and the global recovery: what lies ahead?

09 Mar 2004

Press releases:

Central banks and technology industry join to combat banknote counterfeiting

Central banks and technology industry join to combat banknote counterfeiting (BIS Press Releases 9 Mar 2004)

08 Mar 2004

Press releases:

BIS Quarterly Review, March 2004

BIS Quarterly Review March 2004 (BIS Press Releases 8 Mar 2004)

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08 Mar 2004

Press releases:

Central banks and securities regulators propose recommendations for central counterparties

Central banks and securities regulators propose recommendations for central counterparties (BIS Press Releases 8 Mar 2004)

08 Mar 2004

BIS Quarterly Review, March 2004

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05 Mar 2004

Working Papers:

Back to the future? Assessing the deflation record

by Claudio Borio and Andrew Filardo

04 Mar 2004

Working Papers:

Bank ties and bond market access: evidence on investment-cash flow sensitivity in Japan

by Patrick McGuire

03 Mar 2004

CPSS Publications:

Survey of developments in electronic money and internet and mobile payments

03 Mar 2004

Working Papers:

Bank lending and commercial property cycles: some cross-country evidence

by E. Davis and Haibin Zhu

02 Mar 2004

CPSS Publications:

Recommendations for Central Counterparties

02 Mar 2004

Working Papers:

Monetary policy rules in emerging market economies: issues and evidence

by Madhusudan Mohanty and Marc Klau

01 Mar 2004

CPSS Publications:

Statistics on payment and settlement systems in selected countries - Figures for 2002

01 Mar 2004

Working Papers:

The 2001 US recession: what did recession prediction models tell us?

by Andrew Filardo

26 Feb 2004

Public asset management companies in East Asia

FSI Occasional Paper No 3

03 Feb 2004

BIS speeches:

by Malcolm D Knight: The role of the Bank for International Settlements in promoting financial stability

01 Feb 2004

IFC Bulletin:

The IFC's contribution to the 54th ISI Session, Berlin, August 2003

01 Feb 2004

Working Papers:

Whither monetary and financial stability? the implications of evolving policy regimes

by William R White and Claudio Borio

30 Jan 2004

BCBS Publications:

Principles for the home-host recognition of AMA operational risk capital

30 Jan 2004

BCBS Publications:

Changes to the securitisation framework

30 Jan 2004

BCBS Publications:

Modifications to the capital treatment for expected and unexpected credit losses

30 Jan 2004

Press releases:

BIS consolidated banking statistics for the third quarter of 2003

BIS consolidated banking statistics for the third quarter of 2003 (BIS Press Releases 30 Jan 2004)

30 Jan 2004

The BIS consolidated banking statistics - third quarter 2003

15 Jan 2004

Press releases:

Continued progress toward Basel II

Continued progress toward Basel II (BIS Press Releases 15 Jan 2004)

05 Jan 2004

Registered offices of the BIS

05 Jan 2004

Working Papers:

Consumer credit scoring: do situational circumstances matter?

by Robert Avery, Paul Calem and Glenn Canner

04 Jan 2004

Working Papers:

Are changes in financial structure extending safety nets?

by William R White