BIS Quarterly Review, September 2005

5 September 2005

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International banking and financial market developments:

  1. Overview: improving outlook lifts markets   Read   (PDF, 14 pages, 132 kb)
  2. The international banking market   Read   (PDF, 18 pages, 145 kb)
  3. The international debt securities market   Read   (PDF, 14 pages, 110 kb)
  4. Derivatives markets   Read   (PDF, 10 pages, 130 kb)

Special features

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  Distinguishing global dollar reserves from official holdings in the United States  
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  The BIS consolidated banking statistics: structure, uses and recent enhancements  
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  The rise and fall of US dollar interest rate volatility: evidence from swaptions  
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  Structural models of default: lessons from firm-level data  
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  Recent initiatives by Basel-based committees and the Financial Stability Forum EN