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31 Dec 2009	BIS Quarterly Review, December 2009: Issues and developments in loan loss provisioning: the case of Asia by Sarawan Angklomkliew, Frank Packer and Jason George
30 Dec 2009	Working Papers: Consumption and real exchange rates in professional forecasts by Michael B Devereux, Gregor W Smith and James Yetman
23 Dec 2009	Basel Committee newsletter: LGD Floors
21 Dec 2009	Working Papers: The risk of relying on reputational capital: a case study of the 2007 failure of New Century Financial by Allen B Frankel
17 Dec 2009	BCBS Publications: International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring - consultative document
17 Dec 2009	Press releases: Consultative proposals to strengthen the resilience of the banking sector announced by the Basel Committee
17 Dec 2009	BCBS Publications: Strengthening the resilience of the banking sector - consultative document
11 Dec 2009	CPSS Publications: Statistics on payment and settlement systems in selected countries - Figures for 2008
08 Dec 2009	BIS speeches: by Hervé Hannoun: Unwinding public interventions after the crisis
07 Dec 2009	Press releases: Quarterly Review, December 2009 Also available in: German Spanish French Italian
07 Dec 2009	BIS Quarterly Review: BIS Quarterly Review, December 2009
04 Dec 2009	Resisting financial globalisation in Asia in Financial Globalisation and Emerging Market Economies: Proceedings of the 2008 Bank of Thailand International Symposium, pp, 177-222 by Robert N McCauley and Guonan Ma
20 Nov 2009	Working Papers: Ten propositions about liquidity crises by Claudio Borio
20 Nov 2009	Working Papers: Unconventional monetary policies: an appraisal by Claudio Borio and Piti Disyatat
18 Nov 2009	BIS speeches: by Jaime Caruana: Unconventional monetary policies in time of crisis
16 Nov 2009	BIS speeches: by Stephen G Cecchetti: Residential property price indices
16 Nov 2009	Joint BIS/ECB/World Bank Public Investors Conference 2009 on "Portfolio and risk management for central banks and sovereign wealth funds" Joint conference by the BIS, the ECB and the World Bank on "Portfolio and risk management for central banks and sovereign wealth funds", Washington DC, 16-17 November 2009.
12 Nov 2009	Press releases: OTC derivatives market activity in the first half of 2009
12 Nov 2009	Regular OTC Derivatives Market Statistics The Global OTC Derivatives Market at end-June 2009
07 Nov 2009	Guidance to Assess the Systemic Importance of Financial Institutions, Markets and Instruments: Initial Considerations Prepared by staff of the International Monetary Fund, the Bank for International Settlements and the Financial Stability Board and submitted to G20 Finance Ministers and Governors. The report and background paper respond to a request made by the G20 Leaders in April 2009 to develop guidance for national authorities to assess the systemic importance of financial institutions, markets and instruments. The report outlines conceptual and analytical approaches to the assessment of systemic importance and discusses a possible form for general guidelines.
29 Oct 2009	BIS speeches: by Jaime Caruana: Financial reforms: what are the common lessons for prudential supervisors?
22 Oct 2009	Statistics: Provisional international banking statistics, second quarter 2009
15 Oct 2009	Press releases: Trading book quantitative impact study by the Basel Committee: results
15 Oct 2009	BCBS Publications: Analysis of the trading book quantitative impact study
14 Oct 2009	Working Papers: The US dollar shortage in global banking and the international policy response by Patrick McGuire and Goetz von Peter
08 Oct 2009	Working Papers: Mutual guarantee institutions and small business finance by Francesco Columba, Leonardo Gambacorta and Paolo Emilio Mistrulli
02 Oct 2009	Statistics: Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity in 2010: Reporting Guidelines and Templates (reporting dealers/institutions)
30 Sep 2009	CGFS Publications: Credit risk transfer statistics
29 Sep 2009	Working Papers: Incentives and tranche retention in securitisation: a screening model by Ingo Fender and Janet Mitchell
29 Sep 2009	Press releases: Special Purpose Entities: Joint Forum releases final report
29 Sep 2009	BCBS Publications: Report on Special Purpose Entities
28 Sep 2009	CPSS Publications: Statistics on payment and settlement systems in selected countries - Figures for 2008 - Preliminary release
25 Sep 2009	BIS speeches: by Jaime Caruana: Deposit insurance core principles
24 Sep 2009	Working Papers: Time to buy or just buying time? The market reaction to bank rescue packages by Michael R King
22 Sep 2009	Statistics: Frequently asked questions and answers concerning the triennial FX and derivatives survey in 2010
17 Sep 2009	Press releases: Report and recommendations of the Cross-border Bank Resolution Group issued by the Basel Committee
17 Sep 2009	BCBS Publications: Report and recommendations of the Cross-border Bank Resolution Group - consultative document
15 Sep 2009	Press releases: 2010 Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity
14 Sep 2009	Integrating financial stability: new models for a new challenge This essay was prepared for the joint BIS-ECB Workshop on "Monetary policy and financial stability", Basel, Switzerland, 10-11 September 2009. In this essay, we begin with a brief review of the pre-crisis consensus that provided the basis for stabilisation policy as it has been conducted since around 1980. Our main conclusion is obvious: we need to build economic models that integrate the financial sector in a serious way, accounting for the role of intermediaries with all of their linkages, both with each other and with the real economy. And, most importantly, these models must ... by Stephen G Cecchetti, Piti Disyatat and Marion Kohler
14 Sep 2009	Press releases: Quarterly Review, September 2009 Also available in: German Spanish French Italian
14 Sep 2009	BIS Quarterly Review: BIS Quarterly Review, September 2009
11 Sep 2009	BIS speeches: by Jaime Caruana: The international policy response to financial crises: making the macroprudential approach operational
10 Sep 2009	BIS/ECB Workshop on "Monetary Policy and Financial Stability" Joint workshop by the BIS and the ECB on "Monetary Policy and Financial Stability", Basel, Switzerland, 10-11 September 2009.
07 Sep 2009	Press releases: Comprehensive response to the global banking crisis
31 Aug 2009	Leverage constraints and the international transmission of shocks by Michael B Devereux and James Yetman
27 Aug 2009	Press releases: Guiding principles for the revision of accounting standards for financial instruments issued by the Basel Committee
27 Aug 2009	BCBS Publications: Guiding principles for the replacement of IAS 39
26 Aug 2009	Working Papers: International portfolio rebalancing and exchange rate fluctuations in Thailand by Jacob Gyntelberg, Mico Loretan, Tientip Subhanij and Eric Chan
24 Aug 2009	Financial Crises and Economic Activity This paper was prepared for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's symposium at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 2009. An updated version of this paper has been posted on 14 September 2009. This paper studies the length, depth and output costs of a sample of 40 systemic banking crises in 35 countries since 1980 to assess the likely real impact of the current crisis. Most, but not all, systemic banking crises in our sample coincide with ... by Stephen G Cecchetti, Marion Kohler and Christian Upper
14 Aug 2009	Consumption and real exchange rates in professional forecasts BIS Working Papers 295 by Michael B Devereux, Gregor W Smith and James Yetman
14 Aug 2009	Why Issue Bonds Offshore? BIS Working Papers 334 by Susan Black and Anella Munro
14 Aug 2009	Targeting inflation in Asia and the Pacific: Lessons from the recent past BIS Working Papers, forthcoming by Andrew Filardo and Hans Genberg
14 Aug 2009	Contagion and risk premia in the amplification of crisis: Evidence from Asian names in the CDS market BIS Papers No 52 by Mico Loretan, Don Kim and Eli M Remolona
14 Aug 2009	Motivations for Swap-covered Foreign Currency Borrowing BIS Papers 52 by Philip Wooldridge and Anella Munro
14 Aug 2009	Financial deleveraging and the international transmission of shocks BIS Working papers 52 by Michael B Devereux and James Yetman
09 Aug 2009	Determinants of House Prices in Nine Asia-Pacific Economies PBC-BIS Shanghai conference proceedings by Eloisa T Glindro, Tientip Subhanij, Jessica Szeto and Haibin Zhu
09 Aug 2009	The international financial crisis: timeline, impact and policy responses in Asia and the Pacific by staff at the BIS Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific, PBC-BIS Shanghai conference proceedings
04 Aug 2009	Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics events
01 Aug 2009	International portfolio rebalancing and exchange rate fluctuations in Thailand BIS Working Paper no 287 by Jacob Gyntelberg, Mico Loretan, Tientip Subhanij and Eric Chan
31 Jul 2009	An assessment of financial sector rescue programmes BIS Papers No 48 by Fabio Panetta, Thomas Faeh, Giuseppe Grande, Corrinne Ho, Michael King, Aviram Levy, Federico M Signoretti, Marco Taboga and Andrea Zaghini
30 Jul 2009	History of the Basel Committee and its Membership
28 Jul 2009	BCBS Publications: Results from the 2008 Loss Data Collection Exercise
28 Jul 2009	Press releases: The Basel Committee issues papers on operational risk
24 Jul 2009	Press releases: Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems broadens its membership
24 Jul 2009	IFC Bulletin: Proceedings of the IFC Conference on "Measuring financial innovation and its impact", Basel, 26-27 August 2008
23 Jul 2009	Statistics: Provisional international banking statistics, first quarter 2009
20 Jul 2009	Press releases: CPSS-IOSCO working group on the review of the "Recommendations for Central Counterparties"
15 Jul 2009	Chronology of the BIS, 1929-2009
15 Jul 2009	1929-1939
15 Jul 2009	1940-1949
15 Jul 2009	1950-1959
15 Jul 2009	1960-1969
15 Jul 2009	1970-1979
15 Jul 2009	1980-1989
15 Jul 2009	1990-1999
15 Jul 2009	2000-2009
13 Jul 2009	BCBS Publications: Guidelines for computing capital for incremental risk in the trading book - final version
13 Jul 2009	BCBS Publications: Revisions to the Basel II market risk framework - final version
13 Jul 2009	Press releases: Basel II capital framework enhancements announced by the Basel Committee
13 Jul 2009	BCBS Publications: Enhancements to the Basel II framework
10 Jul 2009	BIS speeches: by Stephen G Cecchetti: Financial system and macroeconomic resilience: revisited
07 Jul 2009	Working Papers: China's evolving external wealth and rising creditor position by Guonan Ma and Zhou Haiwen
07 Jul 2009	Working Papers: From turmoil to crisis: dislocations in the FX swap market before and after the failure of Lehman Brothers by Naohiko Baba and Frank Packer
01 Jul 2009	China's external wealth: evolution and implications BIS Working Paper no 286 by Guonan Ma and Haibin Zhu
01 Jul 2009	IFC Bulletin: Proceedings of the IFC Workshops on "The use of surveys by central banks", in Pune June 2007, Buenos Aires December 2007 and Vienna March 2008
29 Jun 2009	BIS speeches: by Jaime Caruana: General Manager's statement
29 Jun 2009	Statistics: Annual Report 2008/09 - Statistics associated with the graphs
29 Jun 2009	The 79th Annual General Meeting
29 Jun 2009	Press releases: BIS Annual Report: Rescue, recovery, reform – the narrow path ahead Also available in: German Spanish French Italian
29 Jun 2009	BIS Annual Report 2008/09 Also available in: German Spanish French Italian
29 Jun 2009	BIS speeches: by Jaime Caruana: General Manager's speech: The narrow path ahead
26 Jun 2009	Press releases: Már Gudmundsson appointed Governor of the Central Bank of Iceland
25 Jun 2009	8th BIS Annual Conference Eighth BIS Annual Conference on "Financial System and Macroeconomic Resilience: revisited", Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland, 25-26 June 2009.
18 Jun 2009	Press releases: Core Principles for Effective Deposit Insurance Systems: paper issued by Basel Committee and IADI
18 Jun 2009	BCBS Publications: Core Principles for Effective Deposit Insurance Systems - final paper Also available in: Spanish
15 Jun 2009	BCBS Publications: Stocktaking on the use of credit ratings
15 Jun 2009	Press releases: Stocktaking on the use of credit ratings - Joint Forum releases final paper
11 Jun 2009	Working Papers: Towards an operational framework for financial stability: "fuzzy" measurement and its consequences by Claudio Borio and Mathias Drehmann
10 Jun 2009	Why Don't Asians Invest in Asia? The Determinants of Cross-Border Portfolio Holdings Asian Economic Papers, vol 8 (Summer) by Alicia García-Herrero, Philip Wooldridge and Doo Yong Yang
10 Jun 2009	Press releases: Basel Committee broadens its membership
09 Jun 2009	External vulnerability in Asia by Anella Munro and Sebastian Edwards
09 Jun 2009	Short-term Policy Responses to the International Financial Crisis and Risks to sustainable Medium-term Policy Frameworks in Asia: Complications arising from Enduring Global Imbalances ADBI conference proceedings by Andrew Filardo
08 Jun 2009	Press releases: Quarterly Review, June 2009 Also available in: German Spanish French Italian
08 Jun 2009	BIS Quarterly Review: BIS Quarterly Review, June 2009
01 Jun 2009	Commercial property prices and bank performance Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance by E. Davis and Haibin Zhu
26 May 2009	Communication of monetary policy decisions by central banks: what is revealed and why BIS Papers No 47 by Serge Jeanneau
25 May 2009	Household debt: implications for monetary policy and financial stability BIS Papers No. 46
25 May 2009	Foreword of "Household debt: implications for monetary policy and financial stability", May 2009
25 May 2009	List of participants from "Household debt: implicationsfor monetary policy and financial stability", BIS Papers 46, May 2009
25 May 2009	Programme from "Household debt: implicationsfor monetary policy and financial stability", BIS Papers 46, May 2009
25 May 2009	Introduction for "Household debt: implications for monetary policy and financial stability", May 2009
20 May 2009	Press releases: Sound stress testing principles issued by Basel Committee
20 May 2009	BCBS Publications: Principles for sound stress testing practices and supervision - final paper Also available in: Spanish
19 May 2009	BIS speeches: by Jaime Caruana: Financial globalisation, the crisis and Latin America
19 May 2009	Press releases: OTC derivatives market activity in the second half of 2008
19 May 2009	Regular OTC Derivatives Market Statistics The Global OTC Derivatives Market at end-December 2009
18 May 2009	Press releases: Issues in the Governance of Central Banks
18 May 2009	Issues in the Governance of Central Banks This report by the Central Bank Governance Group presents information intended to help decision-makers set up governance arrangements that are most suitable for their own circumstances. The report draws on a large body of information on the design and operation of central banks that the BIS has brought together since it initiated work on central bank governance in the early 1990s. Also available in: Spanish French
14 May 2009	Press releases: Working paper on the interaction of market and credit risk issued by Basel Committee
13 May 2009	Press releases: BIS, ECB, IMF publish first part of Handbook on Securities Statistics
13 May 2009	Press releases: BIS appoints Diego Devos as General Counsel
13 May 2009	BCBS Working Papers: Findings on the interaction of market and credit risk
12 May 2009	Press releases: Guidance on cross-border wire transfer messages released by the Basel Committee
12 May 2009	BCBS Publications: Due diligence and transparency regarding cover payment messages related to cross-border wire transfers - final paper
11 May 2009	Working Papers: Another look at global disinflation by Toshitaka Sekine
11 May 2009	Press releases: William C Dudley appointed CPSS Chairman
10 May 2009	Household debt, monetary policy and financial stability: a unifying model BIS Papers no 46 by Andrew Filardo
10 May 2009	Household debt: implications for monetary policy and financial stability Edited by Guonan Ma, proceedings of a joint conference organised by the BIS and the Bank of Korea in Seoul on 28 March 2008, BIS Papers, no 46
30 Apr 2009	Working Papers: China's exchange rate policy and Asian trade by Alicia García-Herrero and Tuuli Koivu
29 Apr 2009	Working Papers: A Framework for Assessing the Systemic Risk of Major Financial Institutions by Xin Huang, Hao Zhou and Haibin Zhu
28 Apr 2009	Statistics: Provisional international banking statistics, fourth quarter 2008
17 Apr 2009	CGFS Publications: The role of valuation and leverage in procyclicality
16 Apr 2009	Working Papers: Measuring portfolio credit risk correctly: why parameter uncertainty matters by Nikola Tarashev
15 Apr 2009	BCBS Publications: Supervisory guidance for assessing banks' financial instrument fair value practices - final paper
09 Apr 2009	China's exchange rate policy and Asian trade BIS Working Papers no 282 by Alicia García-Herrero and Tuuli Koivu
03 Apr 2009	Press releases: Financial Stability Forum re-established as the Financial Stability Board
03 Apr 2009	Press releases: Financial Stability Forum issues Recommendations and Principles to Strengthen Financial Systems
30 Mar 2009	Press releases: Initiatives in response to the crisis by the Basel Committee
27 Mar 2009	Workshop on "Challenges in banking research"
27 Mar 2009	BCBS Publications: Range of practices and issues in economic capital frameworks - final paper
26 Mar 2009	Working Papers: The pricing of subprime mortgage risk in good times and bad: evidence from the ABX.HE indices by Ingo Fender and Martin Scheicher
25 Mar 2009	Working Papers: Credit frictions and optimal monetary policy by Vasco Cúrdia and Michael Woodford
25 Mar 2009	Working Papers: China's financial conundrum and global imbalances by Ronald McKinnon and Gunther Schnabl
25 Mar 2009	Working Papers: Has the monetary transmission process in the euro area changed? Evidence based on VAR estimates by Axel A Weber, Rafael Gerke and Andreas Worms
25 Mar 2009	Working Papers: Inflation expectations, uncertainty and monetary policy by Christopher A Sims
25 Mar 2009	Working Papers: Talking about monetary policy: the virtues (and vice?) of central bank communication by Alan Blinder
25 Mar 2009	Working Papers: In search of monetary stability: the evolution of monetary policy by Otmar Issing
25 Mar 2009	Design and evaluation of core inflation measures for Turkey IFC Working Papers No 3 by Oğuz Atuk and Mustafa Utku Özmen
25 Mar 2009	BIS Papers: Whither monetary policy? Monetary policy challenges in the decade ahead by William R White, Edmund S Phelps, Martin Wolf, Martin Feldstein, Mark Carney and Jean-Pierre Landau
13 Mar 2009	Press releases: Financial Stability Forum decides to broaden its membership
13 Mar 2009	Press releases: Financial Stability Forum meets in London
13 Mar 2009	Press releases: Expansion of membership announced by the Basel Committee
12 Mar 2009	BCBS Publications: Core principles for effective deposit insurance systems - consultative document
12 Mar 2009	Press releases: Initiatives on capital announced by the Basel Committee
12 Mar 2009	Press releases: Basel Committee and IADI issue Core Principles for Effective Deposit Insurance Systems for public consultation
05 Mar 2009	CPSS Publications: Statistics on payment and settlement systems in selected countries - Figures for 2007
03 Mar 2009	Working Papers: Bank ties and firm performance in Japan: some evidence since FY2002 by Patrick McGuire
02 Mar 2009	Press releases: Quarterly Review, March 2009 Also available in: German Spanish French Italian
02 Mar 2009	BIS Quarterly Review: BIS Quarterly Review, March 2009
27 Feb 2009	Working Papers: Private information, stock markets, and exchange rates by Jacob Gyntelberg, Mico Loretan, Tientip Subhanij and Eric Chan
16 Feb 2009	2008 FSI Survey on the Implementation of the new capital adequacy framework in non-Basel Committee member countries
13 Feb 2009	BIS speeches: by Hervé Hannoun: Long-term sustainability versus short-term stimulus: is there a trade-off?
03 Feb 2009	Press releases: CGFS report on capital flows and emerging market economies Also available in: Spanish
03 Feb 2009	Press releases: Spanish translation of press release on CGFS report on capital flows and emerging market economies
03 Feb 2009	CGFS Publications: Capital flows and emerging market economies
01 Feb 2009	Price adjustment and exchange rate pass-through Journal of International Money and Finance, forthcoming by James Yetman and Michael B Devereux
01 Feb 2009	Private information, stock markets, and exchange rates by Jacob Gyntelberg, Mico Loretan, Tientip Subhanij and Eric Chan
01 Feb 2009	Explaining credit default swap spreads with the equity volatility and jump risks of individual firms Review of Financial Studies by Benjamin Zhang, Hao Zhou and Haibin Zhu
29 Jan 2009	Statistics: Provisional international banking statistics, third quarter 2008
22 Jan 2009	IFC Bulletin: Proceedings of the IFC Workshop on "Challenges to improve global comparison of securities statistics", Washington DC, March 2008
19 Jan 2009	CGFS Publications: Capital flows and emerging market economies
16 Jan 2009	Overview - Enhancements to the Basel II Framework, including the capital regime for trading book positions
16 Jan 2009	BCBS Publications: Proposed enhancements to the Basel II framework
16 Jan 2009	Press releases: Basel Committee on Banking Supervision announces enhancements to the Basel II capital framework
16 Jan 2009	BCBS Publications: Guidelines for computing capital for incremental risk in the trading book - consultative version
16 Jan 2009	BCBS Publications: Revisions to the Basel II market risk framework - consultative version
12 Jan 2009	Press releases: BIS Board elects new Chairman
08 Jan 2009	Press releases: Steps to strengthen implementation of supervisory standards and guidance taken by the Basel Committee
06 Jan 2009	Press releases: Principles for sound stress testing: Basel Committee issues consultative paper
06 Jan 2009	BCBS Publications: Principles for sound stress testing practices and supervision - consultative paper Also available in: Spanish
01 Jan 2009	The euro as a reserve currency: a challenge to the pre-eminence of the US dollar? International Journal of Finance and Economics, vol 14, pp 1-23 by Gabriele Galati and Philip Wooldridge

31 Dec 2009

BIS Quarterly Review, December 2009: Issues and developments in loan loss provisioning: the case of Asia

by Sarawan Angklomkliew, Frank Packer and Jason George

30 Dec 2009

Working Papers:

Consumption and real exchange rates in professional forecasts

by Michael B Devereux, Gregor W Smith and James Yetman

23 Dec 2009

Basel Committee newsletter:

LGD Floors

21 Dec 2009

Working Papers:

The risk of relying on reputational capital: a case study of the 2007 failure of New Century Financial

by Allen B Frankel

17 Dec 2009

BCBS Publications:

International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring - consultative document

17 Dec 2009

Press releases:

Consultative proposals to strengthen the resilience of the banking sector announced by the Basel Committee

17 Dec 2009

BCBS Publications:

Strengthening the resilience of the banking sector - consultative document

11 Dec 2009

CPSS Publications:

Statistics on payment and settlement systems in selected countries - Figures for 2008

08 Dec 2009

BIS speeches:

by Hervé Hannoun: Unwinding public interventions after the crisis

07 Dec 2009

Press releases:

Quarterly Review, December 2009

Also available in:

07 Dec 2009

BIS Quarterly Review:

BIS Quarterly Review, December 2009

04 Dec 2009

Resisting financial globalisation in Asia

in Financial Globalisation and Emerging Market Economies: Proceedings of the 2008 Bank of Thailand International Symposium, pp, 177-222

by Robert N McCauley and Guonan Ma

20 Nov 2009

Working Papers:

Ten propositions about liquidity crises

by Claudio Borio

20 Nov 2009

Working Papers:

Unconventional monetary policies: an appraisal

by Claudio Borio and Piti Disyatat

18 Nov 2009

BIS speeches:

by Jaime Caruana: Unconventional monetary policies in time of crisis

16 Nov 2009

BIS speeches:

by Stephen G Cecchetti: Residential property price indices

16 Nov 2009

Joint BIS/ECB/World Bank Public Investors Conference 2009 on "Portfolio and risk management for central banks and sovereign wealth funds"

Joint conference by the BIS, the ECB and the World Bank on "Portfolio and risk management for central banks and sovereign wealth funds", Washington DC, 16-17 November 2009.

12 Nov 2009

Press releases:

OTC derivatives market activity in the first half of 2009

12 Nov 2009

Regular OTC Derivatives Market Statistics

The Global OTC Derivatives Market at end-June 2009

07 Nov 2009

Guidance to Assess the Systemic Importance of Financial Institutions, Markets and Instruments: Initial Considerations

Prepared by staff of the International Monetary Fund, the Bank for International Settlements and the Financial Stability Board and submitted to G20 Finance Ministers and Governors. The report and background paper respond to a request made by the G20 Leaders in April 2009 to develop guidance for national authorities to assess the systemic importance of financial institutions, markets and instruments. The report outlines conceptual and analytical approaches to the assessment of systemic importance and discusses a possible form for general guidelines.

29 Oct 2009

BIS speeches:

by Jaime Caruana: Financial reforms: what are the common lessons for prudential supervisors?

22 Oct 2009

Statistics:

Provisional international banking statistics, second quarter 2009

15 Oct 2009

Press releases:

Trading book quantitative impact study by the Basel Committee: results

15 Oct 2009

BCBS Publications:

Analysis of the trading book quantitative impact study

14 Oct 2009

Working Papers:

The US dollar shortage in global banking and the international policy response

by Patrick McGuire and Goetz von Peter

08 Oct 2009

Working Papers:

Mutual guarantee institutions and small business finance

by Francesco Columba, Leonardo Gambacorta and Paolo Emilio Mistrulli

02 Oct 2009

Statistics:

Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity in 2010: Reporting Guidelines and Templates (reporting dealers/institutions)

30 Sep 2009

CGFS Publications:

Credit risk transfer statistics

29 Sep 2009

Working Papers:

Incentives and tranche retention in securitisation: a screening model

by Ingo Fender and Janet Mitchell

29 Sep 2009

Press releases:

Special Purpose Entities: Joint Forum releases final report

29 Sep 2009

BCBS Publications:

Report on Special Purpose Entities

28 Sep 2009

CPSS Publications:

Statistics on payment and settlement systems in selected countries - Figures for 2008 - Preliminary release

25 Sep 2009

BIS speeches:

by Jaime Caruana: Deposit insurance core principles

24 Sep 2009

Working Papers:

Time to buy or just buying time? The market reaction to bank rescue packages

by Michael R King

22 Sep 2009

Statistics:

Frequently asked questions and answers concerning the triennial FX and derivatives survey in 2010

17 Sep 2009

Press releases:

Report and recommendations of the Cross-border Bank Resolution Group issued by the Basel Committee

17 Sep 2009

BCBS Publications:

Report and recommendations of the Cross-border Bank Resolution Group - consultative document

15 Sep 2009

Press releases:

2010 Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity

14 Sep 2009

Integrating financial stability: new models for a new challenge

This essay was prepared for the joint BIS-ECB Workshop on "Monetary policy and financial stability", Basel, Switzerland, 10-11 September 2009. In this essay, we begin with a brief review of the pre-crisis consensus that provided the basis for stabilisation policy as it has been conducted since around 1980. Our main conclusion is obvious: we need to build economic models that integrate the financial sector in a serious way, accounting for the role of intermediaries with all of their linkages, both with each other and with the real economy. And, most importantly, these models must ...

by Stephen G Cecchetti, Piti Disyatat and Marion Kohler

14 Sep 2009

Press releases:

Quarterly Review, September 2009

Also available in:

14 Sep 2009

BIS Quarterly Review:

BIS Quarterly Review, September 2009

11 Sep 2009

BIS speeches:

by Jaime Caruana: The international policy response to financial crises: making the macroprudential approach operational

10 Sep 2009

BIS/ECB Workshop on "Monetary Policy and Financial Stability"

Joint workshop by the BIS and the ECB on "Monetary Policy and Financial Stability", Basel, Switzerland, 10-11 September 2009.

07 Sep 2009

Press releases:

Comprehensive response to the global banking crisis

31 Aug 2009

Leverage constraints and the international transmission of shocks

by Michael B Devereux and James Yetman

27 Aug 2009

Press releases:

Guiding principles for the revision of accounting standards for financial instruments issued by the Basel Committee

27 Aug 2009

BCBS Publications:

Guiding principles for the replacement of IAS 39

26 Aug 2009

Working Papers:

International portfolio rebalancing and exchange rate fluctuations in Thailand

by Jacob Gyntelberg, Mico Loretan, Tientip Subhanij and Eric Chan

24 Aug 2009

Financial Crises and Economic Activity

This paper was prepared for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's symposium at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 2009. An updated version of this paper has been posted on 14 September 2009. This paper studies the length, depth and output costs of a sample of 40 systemic banking crises in 35 countries since 1980 to assess the likely real impact of the current crisis. Most, but not all, systemic banking crises in our sample coincide with ...

by Stephen G Cecchetti, Marion Kohler and Christian Upper

14 Aug 2009

Consumption and real exchange rates in professional forecasts

BIS Working Papers 295

by Michael B Devereux, Gregor W Smith and James Yetman

14 Aug 2009

Why Issue Bonds Offshore?

BIS Working Papers 334

by Susan Black and Anella Munro

14 Aug 2009

Targeting inflation in Asia and the Pacific: Lessons from the recent past

BIS Working Papers, forthcoming

by Andrew Filardo and Hans Genberg

14 Aug 2009

Contagion and risk premia in the amplification of crisis: Evidence from Asian names in the CDS market

BIS Papers No 52

by Mico Loretan, Don Kim and Eli M Remolona

14 Aug 2009

Motivations for Swap-covered Foreign Currency Borrowing

BIS Papers 52

by Philip Wooldridge and Anella Munro

14 Aug 2009

Financial deleveraging and the international transmission of shocks

BIS Working papers 52

by Michael B Devereux and James Yetman

09 Aug 2009

Determinants of House Prices in Nine Asia-Pacific Economies

PBC-BIS Shanghai conference proceedings

by Eloisa T Glindro, Tientip Subhanij, Jessica Szeto and Haibin Zhu

09 Aug 2009

The international financial crisis: timeline, impact and policy responses in Asia and the Pacific

by staff at the BIS Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific, PBC-BIS Shanghai conference proceedings

04 Aug 2009

Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics events

01 Aug 2009

International portfolio rebalancing and exchange rate fluctuations in Thailand

BIS Working Paper no 287

by Jacob Gyntelberg, Mico Loretan, Tientip Subhanij and Eric Chan

31 Jul 2009

An assessment of financial sector rescue programmes

BIS Papers No 48

by Fabio Panetta, Thomas Faeh, Giuseppe Grande, Corrinne Ho, Michael King, Aviram Levy, Federico M Signoretti, Marco Taboga and Andrea Zaghini

30 Jul 2009

History of the Basel Committee and its Membership

28 Jul 2009

BCBS Publications:

Results from the 2008 Loss Data Collection Exercise

28 Jul 2009

Press releases:

The Basel Committee issues papers on operational risk

24 Jul 2009

Press releases:

Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems broadens its membership

24 Jul 2009

IFC Bulletin:

Proceedings of the IFC Conference on "Measuring financial innovation and its impact", Basel, 26-27 August 2008

23 Jul 2009

Statistics:

Provisional international banking statistics, first quarter 2009

20 Jul 2009

Press releases:

CPSS-IOSCO working group on the review of the "Recommendations for Central Counterparties"

15 Jul 2009

Chronology of the BIS, 1929-2009

15 Jul 2009

1929-1939

15 Jul 2009

1940-1949

15 Jul 2009

1950-1959

15 Jul 2009

1960-1969

15 Jul 2009

1970-1979

15 Jul 2009

1980-1989

15 Jul 2009

1990-1999

15 Jul 2009

2000-2009

13 Jul 2009

BCBS Publications:

Guidelines for computing capital for incremental risk in the trading book - final version

13 Jul 2009

BCBS Publications:

Revisions to the Basel II market risk framework - final version

13 Jul 2009

Press releases:

Basel II capital framework enhancements announced by the Basel Committee

13 Jul 2009

BCBS Publications:

Enhancements to the Basel II framework

10 Jul 2009

BIS speeches:

by Stephen G Cecchetti: Financial system and macroeconomic resilience: revisited

07 Jul 2009

Working Papers:

China's evolving external wealth and rising creditor position

by Guonan Ma and Zhou Haiwen

07 Jul 2009

Working Papers:

From turmoil to crisis: dislocations in the FX swap market before and after the failure of Lehman Brothers

by Naohiko Baba and Frank Packer

01 Jul 2009

China's external wealth: evolution and implications

BIS Working Paper no 286

by Guonan Ma and Haibin Zhu

01 Jul 2009

IFC Bulletin:

Proceedings of the IFC Workshops on "The use of surveys by central banks", in Pune June 2007, Buenos Aires December 2007 and Vienna March 2008

29 Jun 2009

BIS speeches:

by Jaime Caruana: General Manager's statement

29 Jun 2009

Statistics:

Annual Report 2008/09 - Statistics associated with the graphs

29 Jun 2009

The 79th Annual General Meeting

29 Jun 2009

Press releases:

BIS Annual Report: Rescue, recovery, reform – the narrow path ahead

Also available in:

29 Jun 2009

BIS Annual Report 2008/09

Also available in:

29 Jun 2009

BIS speeches:

by Jaime Caruana: General Manager's speech: The narrow path ahead

26 Jun 2009

Press releases:

Már Gudmundsson appointed Governor of the Central Bank of Iceland

25 Jun 2009

8th BIS Annual Conference

Eighth BIS Annual Conference on "Financial System and Macroeconomic Resilience: revisited", Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland, 25-26 June 2009.

18 Jun 2009

Press releases:

Core Principles for Effective Deposit Insurance Systems: paper issued by Basel Committee and IADI

18 Jun 2009

BCBS Publications:

Core Principles for Effective Deposit Insurance Systems - final paper

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Spanish

15 Jun 2009

BCBS Publications:

Stocktaking on the use of credit ratings

15 Jun 2009

Press releases:

Stocktaking on the use of credit ratings - Joint Forum releases final paper

11 Jun 2009

Working Papers:

Towards an operational framework for financial stability: "fuzzy" measurement and its consequences

by Claudio Borio and Mathias Drehmann

10 Jun 2009

Why Don't Asians Invest in Asia? The Determinants of Cross-Border Portfolio Holdings

Asian Economic Papers, vol 8 (Summer)

by Alicia García-Herrero, Philip Wooldridge and Doo Yong Yang

10 Jun 2009

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Basel Committee broadens its membership

09 Jun 2009

External vulnerability in Asia

by Anella Munro and Sebastian Edwards

09 Jun 2009

Short-term Policy Responses to the International Financial Crisis and Risks to sustainable Medium-term Policy Frameworks in Asia: Complications arising from Enduring Global Imbalances

ADBI conference proceedings

by Andrew Filardo

08 Jun 2009

Press releases:

Quarterly Review, June 2009

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08 Jun 2009

BIS Quarterly Review:

BIS Quarterly Review, June 2009

01 Jun 2009

Commercial property prices and bank performance

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

by E. Davis and Haibin Zhu

26 May 2009

Communication of monetary policy decisions by central banks: what is revealed and why

BIS Papers No 47

by Serge Jeanneau

25 May 2009

Household debt: implications for monetary policy and financial stability

BIS Papers No. 46

25 May 2009

Foreword of "Household debt: implications for monetary policy and financial stability", May 2009

25 May 2009

List of participants from "Household debt: implicationsfor monetary policy and financial stability", BIS Papers 46, May 2009

25 May 2009

Programme from "Household debt: implicationsfor monetary policy and financial stability", BIS Papers 46, May 2009

25 May 2009

Introduction for "Household debt: implications for monetary policy and financial stability", May 2009

20 May 2009

Press releases:

Sound stress testing principles issued by Basel Committee

20 May 2009

BCBS Publications:

Principles for sound stress testing practices and supervision - final paper

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Spanish

19 May 2009

BIS speeches:

by Jaime Caruana: Financial globalisation, the crisis and Latin America

19 May 2009

Press releases:

OTC derivatives market activity in the second half of 2008

19 May 2009

Regular OTC Derivatives Market Statistics

The Global OTC Derivatives Market at end-December 2009

18 May 2009

Press releases:

Issues in the Governance of Central Banks

18 May 2009

Issues in the Governance of Central Banks

This report by the Central Bank Governance Group presents information intended to help decision-makers set up governance arrangements that are most suitable for their own circumstances. The report draws on a large body of information on the design and operation of central banks that the BIS has brought together since it initiated work on central bank governance in the early 1990s.

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14 May 2009

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