BIS Quarterly Review, December 2007

10 December 2007

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Text by chapter:

International banking and financial market developments

1. Overview: markets hit by renewed credit woes
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Highlights of international banking and financial market activity

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Special features

    International banking centres: a network perspective
by Goetz von Peter
 

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    International banking with the euro
by Patrick McGuire and Nikola Tarashev
 

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indludes box: Measuring net banking flows: some challenges

    What drives the growth in FX activity? Interpreting the 2007 triennial survey
by Gabriele Galati and Alexandra Heath
 

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 Full text (PDF, 10 pages, 100 kb)

    Risk in carry trades: a look at target currencies in Asia and the Pacific
by Jacob Gyntelberg and Eli M Remolona
 

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includes box: Carry trades as a standard trading strategy

    Changing post-trading arrangements for OTC derivatives
by Elisabeth Ledrut and Christian Upper
 

 Abstract  (also available in French, German, Italian, Spanish)
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includes box: The US paper crunch, 1967–1970

Recent initiatives

   

Recent initiatives by the Basel-based committees and groups

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