News archive - 2008

16 May 2008

BIS Review - Speeches and articles by senior central bankers:

Barbro Wickman-Parak: The Riksbank and the property market;

Lim Hng Kiang: Impact of current issues to Asia's growth and the global environment ahead;

Ben S Bernanke: Risk management in financial institutions;

Glenn Stevens: The Australian economy – then and now;

Thomas Jordan: Funding mortgages – securitisation and pfandbriefe in the light of the financial crisis

15 May 2008

BIS Review - Speeches and articles by senior central bankers:

Zeti Akhtar Aziz: Globalisation of Islamic finance services – opportunities and challenges;

Shamshad Akhtar: Asia – impact of recent global developments and central bankers' response;

Eddie Yue: Hong Kong's possible role in Islamic finance;

Jacinta Mwatela: Regulation of microfinance in Kenya;

Randall S Kroszner: Risk management and Basel II

13 May 2008CPSS publication and press release:

Progress in reducing foreign exchange settlement risk
05 May 2008Press release:

BIS establishes Consultative Council for the Americas

02 May 2008BIS speeches:

Malcolm D Knight: Weaknesses revealed by the market turmoil: where do we go from here?
30 April 2008Joint Forum publication and press release:

Customer suitability in the retail sale of financial products and services
30 April 2008Provisional international banking statistics at end-December 2007
25 April 2008Joint Forum publication and press release:

Cross-sectoral review of group-wide identification and management of risk concentrations
23 April 2008Markets Committee publication:

Monetary policy frameworks and central bank market operations

23 April 2008BIS speeches:

Malcolm D Knight: Some reflections on the future of the originate-to-distribute model in the context of the current financial turmoil
18 April 2008Working Papers:

The financial turmoil of 2007-?: a preliminary assessment and some policy considerations
16 April 2008Press release:

Basel Committee on Banking Supervision announces steps to strengthen the resilience of the banking system

12 April 2008Press release:

Financial Stability Forum recommends actions to enhance market and institutional resilience

09 April 2008BIS Papers:

Financial market developments and their implications for monetary policy
07 April 2008Publication:

Financial market developments in Africa: new challenges for central banks?
03 April 2008BIS speeches:

Hervé Hannoun: Financial deepening without financial excesses
01 April 2008Joint Forum publication and press release:

Credit risk transfer - developments from 2005 to 2007
29 March 2008Press release:

Financial Stability Forum meets in Rome

26 March 2008BIS speeches:

William R White: Past financial crises, the current financial turmoil, and the need for a new macrofinancial stability framework
25 March 2008Working Papers:

Globalisation and the determinants of domestic inflation
17 March 2008CPSS publication: Statistics on payment and settlement systems in selected countries - Figures for 2006
14 March 2008BIS Papers:

FX reserve management: elements of a framework
10 March 2008Press release:

Stephen G Cecchetti appointed Economic Adviser, Head of Monetary and Economic Department
06 March 2008International Journal of Central Banking (IJCB), March 2008

In this issue:

1) An Empirical Evaluation of Structural Credit-Risk Models,   2) Inflation Targets as Focal Points,   3) Transaction Pricing and the Adoption of Electronic Payments: A Cross-Country Comparison,   4) Using Securities Market Information for Bank Supervisory Monitoring ,   5) Capital Regulation and Banks' Financial Decisions,   6) Preference Heterogeneity in Monetary Policy Committees
03 March 2008Working Papers:

What drives the current account in commodity exporting countries? The cases of Chile and New Zealand

Tips from TIPS: the informational content of Treasury Inflation-Protected Security prices

Frequency of observation and the estimation of integrated volatiliy in deep and liquid financial markets
03 March 2008Publication and press release:

BIS Quarterly Review March 2008 – International banking and financial market developments

In this issue: 1) Monetary operations and the financial turmoil,   2) What drives interbank rates? Evidence from the Libor panel,   3) Interbank rate fixings during the recent turmoil,   4) The spillover of money market turbulence to FX swap and cross-currency swap markets,   5) Credit fundamentals, ratings and value-at-risk: CDOs versus corporate exposures
29 February 2008BIS speeches:

Malcolm D Knight: Now you see it, now you don’t; the nature of risk and the current financial turmoil
28 February 2008BIS Papers:

Monetary policy decisions: preparing the inputs and communicating the outcomes
26 February 2008BIS Papers:

New financing trends in Latin America: a bumpy road towards stability
21 February 2008Press release:

Liquidity risk: management and supervisory challenges
12 February 2008Working Papers:

Central bank policy rate guidance and financial market functioning
09 February 2008FSF interim report to G7 ministers and governors on financial system resilience

05 February 2008BIS Papers:

Transmission mechanisms for monetary policy in emerging market economies
04 February 2008Working Papers:

Understanding Asian equity flows, market returns and exchange rates

Global monitoring with the BIS international banking statistics

Asset prices and monetary policy: booms and fat tails in East Asia
01 February 2008BIS speeches:

Malcolm D Knight: Transparency and communication in monetary policy
31 January 2008Provisional international banking statistics at end-September 2007
25 January 2008Irving Fisher Committee Working Papers:

Cooperation between Central Banks and National Statistical Institutes: the cases of Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands
22 January 2008Press release:

Financial Stability Forum Chairman welcomes hedge fund manager initiative on best practice standards
16 January 2008Working Papers:

What can (macro-)prudential policy do to support monetary policy?
07 January 2008Working Papers:

Housing finance agencies in Asia