Anamaria Illes

Principal Financial Market Analyst

Monetary and Economic Department, Departmental Research Support

Anamaria Illes is a Principal Financial Market Analyst in the Monetary and Economic Department. Previously she worked in Toronto, in the private sector and also at the ECB in their Market Operations department. She holds a BCom from University of Toronto and a MA in Economics from McMaster University.

Fields of interest

Monetary policy
Financial markets
Banking

All BIS publications (12)

CPMI Briefs No 10 18 Dec 2025

Moving on up: results of the 2024 cross-border payments monitoring survey

Advancements in payment system interoperability and extensions vary across different systems and regions. Operating hour…

Emilie Fitzgerald

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Federico Semorile

BIS Paper No 159 22 Aug 2025

Advancing in tandem - results of the 2024 BIS survey on central bank digital currencies and crypto

Central banks' involvement in central bank digital currency (CBDC) work remained strong in 2024. Of the 93 central banks…

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CPMI Briefs No 5 4 Jun 2024

Steady as we go: results of the 2023 CPMI cross-border payments monitoring survey

Enhancing cross-border payments has been a G20 priority since 2020. This ambitious programme requires action by individual…

Emilie Fitzgerald

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CPMI Briefs No 2 2 Feb 2024

Monitoring cross-border payment developments: a regional analysis of AMF member countries

Making cross-border payments cheaper, faster, more transparent and easier to access across the globe is a priority for the G20…

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BIS Working Paper No 965 14 Oct 2021

Technological capacity and firms' recovery from Covid-19

Based on a large sample of firms in 17 countries, this paper shows that businesses headquartered in countries with better…

Sebastian Doerr

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Magdalena Erdem

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Leonardo Gambacorta

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BIS Bulletin No 10 28 Apr 2020

Covid-19 and corporate sector liquidity

The Covid-19 shock is placing enormous strains on corporates cash buffers. Corporate financial statements from 2019 suggest…

Ryan Niladri Banerjee

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Enisse Kharroubi

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José María Serena Garralda

BIS Working Paper No 850 31 Mar 2020

The impact of unconventional monetary policies on retail lending and deposit rates in the euro area

This paper investigates the overall effect of the European Central Bank's (ECB's) unconventional monetary policies (UMPs)…

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Marco Jacopo Lombardi

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Publication 11 Mar 2018

Mortgages, developers and property prices

This special feature studies the risks posed by the rapid rise in property developer debt in several Asian economies in recent…

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Christian Upper

Publication 6 Mar 2016

Hanging up the phone - electronic trading in fixed income markets and its implications

Morten Linnemann Bech

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Andreas Schrimpf

All external publications (3)

External publication 1 Dec 2021

Technological capacity and firms' recovery from Covid-19

Leonardo Gambacorta

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Magdalena Erdem

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Sebastian Doerr

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External publication 1 May 2019

The divergence of bank lending rates from policy rates after the financial crisis: the role of bank funding costs

Marco Jacopo Lombardi

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External publication 1 Nov 2015

Has the transmission of policy rates to lending rates changed in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis?

Leonardo Gambacorta

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Marco Jacopo Lombardi

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