News archive - 2006

Working Papers:

An equilibrum model of "global imbalances" and low interest rates

by Ricardo Caballero, Emmanuel Farhi and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

Contact the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics

History of the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics

Financial Globalisation

BIS Papers No. 32

Monetary policy in Asia: approaches and implementation

BIS Papers No. 31

BIS Quarterly Review, December 2006

Internationalising a currency: the case of the Australian dollar

BIS Quarterly Review

by Robert N McCauley

Leveraged loans and Asian financial integration: the case of casino financing

Box within BIS Quarterly Review, December 2006, p 21

by Blaise Gadanecz and Robert N McCauley

The pricing of sovereign risk in emerging markets: fundamentals and risk aversion

Paper presented at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Manila (November), and the Bank of Thailand, Bangkok (December)

by Eli M Remolona, Michela Scatigna and Eliza Wu

Corporate credit guarantees in Asia

BIS Quarterly Review

by Ilhyock Shim

Statistics:

Guidelines to the international locational banking statistics

Press releases:

OTC derivatives market activity in the first half of 2006

Joint Forum

Asian bond markets: issues and prospects

BIS Papers No. 30

Minding the gap in Asia: foreign and local currency ratings

BIS Papers no 30

by Kate Kisselev and Frank Packer

Consolidating the public debt markets of Asia

BIS Papers no 30

by Robert N McCauley

Statistics:

Provisional international banking statistics, second quarter 2006

BCBS Publications:

Observed range of practice in key elements of Advanced Measurement Approaches (AMA)

Working Papers:

The euro as a reserve currency: a challenge to the pre-eminence of the US dollar?

by Gabriele Galati and Philip Wooldridge

BIS speeches:

by Malcolm D Knight: Opening remarks by Mr Malcolm Knight at the FSI Conference on Promoting Inclusive Financial Systems

Press releases:

Global community of banking supervisors enhances the Basel Core Principles and strengthens supervisory collaboration

BCBS Publications:

Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision - final document

BCBS Publications:

Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision and Core Principles Methodology: Overview of comments received

Are banking systems in East Asia stronger?

Paper for the Asian Economic Review conference on "Ten years after the Asian crises: what have we learned or not learned?"

by Philip Turner

Estimation of Asian effective exchange rates: a technical note

BIS Working Papers no 217

by San Sau Fung, Marc Klau, Guonan Ma and Robert N McCauley

Working Papers:

Monetary and prudential policies at a crossroads? New challenges in the new century

by Claudio Borio

Implementation of the new capital adequacy framework in non-Basel Committee member countries: Summary of responses to the 2006 follow-up Questionnaire on Basel II implementation

FSI Occasional Paper No 6

Press releases:

Communiqué of the Ministers and Governors of the Group of Ten

Working Papers:

The pricing of portfolio credit risk

by Nikola Tarashev and Haibin Zhu

BIS Quarterly Review, September 2006

Stability of a "through-the-cycle" rating system during a financial crisis

Press releases:

Financial Stability Forum meets in Paris

Foreign exchange reserve accumulation in emerging market economies: what are the domestic implications?

BIS Quarterly Review

by Madhusudan Mohanty and Philip Turner

Cross-border banking in Asia: Basel II and other prudential issues

Cross-Border Banking: Regulatory Challenges, edited by Gerard Caprio, Jr, Douglas Evanoff and George Kaufman

by Stefan Hohl, Patrick McGuire and Eli M Remolona

Working Papers:

Risk and liquidity in a system context

by Hyun Song Shin

Press releases:

Joint Forum issues paper on business continuity

BCBS Publications:

Overview of comments received

Working Papers:

Institution-specific value

by Ken Peasnell

Working Papers:

Including estimates of the future in today's financial statements

by Mary Barth

The banking system in emerging economies: how much progress has been made?

BIS Papers No. 28

Statistics:

Provisional international banking statistics, first quarter 2006

BIS speeches:

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

BCBS Publications:

Basel II: International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards: A Revised Framework - Comprehensive Version

The BIS, globalisation and governance: more than a decade of change

Press releases:

BIS releases 76th Annual Report at Annual General Meeting

BIS releases 76th Annual Report at Annual General Meeting (BIS Press Releases 26 Jun 2006)

BIS 76th Annual Report

BIS speeches:

by Malcolm D Knight: General Manager's speech

Statistics:

BIS 76th Annual Report - Statistics associated with the graphs

Fifth BIS Annual Conference: Financial Globalisation

BCBS Publications:

Report for the G7 Summit on the activities of the Basel Committee

Press releases:

Basel Committee issues guidance on the use of the fair value option for financial instruments by banks

BCBS Publications:

Supervisory guidance on the use of the fair value option for financial instruments by banks - final document

Working Papers:

The price impact of rating announcements: which announcements matter?

by Marian Micu, Eli M Remolona and Philip Wooldridge

Press releases:

Quarterly Review, June 2006

Press releases:

Basel Committee issues principles on home-host information sharing for effective Basel II implementation

BCBS Publications:

Overview of comments received

China's banking reform: an assessment of its evolution and possible impact

In CESifo Economic Studies, Vol 52, Number 2, June 2006

by Alicia García-Herrero, Sergio Gavilá and Daniel Santabárbara

BIS speeches:

by Malcolm D Knight: Promoting Liquidity in Domestic Bond Markets

BIS speeches:

by Malcolm D Knight: Globalisation and Financial Markets

Press releases:

Nout Wellink to succeed Jaime Caruana as Chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

BIS speeches:

by Malcolm D Knight: Why have long-term interest rates been so low? Is the global interest rate cycle beginning to turn?

BCBS Publications:

For information only: First Public Report of the Public Interest Oversight Board

Press releases:

Joint Forum issues paper on regulatory and market differences

BCBS Publications:

Regulatory and market differences: issues and observations

Statistics:

Commentary on provisional international banking statistics, fourth quarter 2005

Working Papers:

Is price stability enough?

by William R White

BCBS Publications:

Core Principles Methodology - consultative document

BCBS Publications:

Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision - consultative document

Press releases:

BIS, IMF, OECD and the World Bank launch joint external debt website

Working Papers:

Macro factors in the term structure of credit spreads

by Jeffery Amato and Maurizio Luisi

Press releases:

Financial Stability Forum meets in Sydney

BIS speeches:

by Malcolm D Knight: Money, credit and asset prices: (Re-)learning to read their message

Postwar and Bretton Woods

The BIS and the pursuit of global financial stability

Central banks and the challenge of development

CPSS Publications:

General principles for international remittance services - consultative report

BIS Quarterly Review, March 2006

Past and future of central bank cooperation: policy panel discussion

BIS Papers No. 27

Working Papers:

The future of central bank cooperation

by Beth Simmons

Working Papers:

Almost a century of central bank cooperation

by Richard Cooper

Working Papers:

The evolving inflation process: an overview

by Gabriele Galati and William Melick

Working Papers:

Output gaps and inflation in Mainland China

by Stefan Gerlach and Wensheng Peng

Press releases:

BIS announces initiatives to deepen its involvement in Asia

BCBS Publications:

Enhancing corporate governance for banking organisations

Developing corporate bond markets in Asia

BIS Papers No. 26

CGFS Publications:

Housing finance in the global financial market

Statistics:

Commentary on provisional international banking statistics, third quarter 2005

CPSS Publications:

Statistics on payment and settlement systems in selected countries - Figures for 2004 - Preliminary version

CGFS Publications:

Housing finance in the global financial market

Press releases:

BIS to host Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics

Press releases:

Jean-Pierre Roth to chair BIS Board

Press releases:

Cross-border collateral arrangements

Asian office meetings

Statistics:

Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX)

The Quarterly Review