Matteo Aquilina

Adviser for Financial Stability

Monetary and Economic Department, Financial Stability Policy

Matteo.Aquilina@bis.org

Matteo Aquilina leads the BIS's contributions and deliverables to the G20 and the Financial Stability Board. Matteo joined the BIS in late 2022, initially working in the Financial Markets Unit. Before joining the BIS, Matteo spent over two years at the Secretariat of the Financial Stability Board, focusing on non-bank financial intermediation. Prior to that, he worked for 10 years at the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in various roles within the Chief Economist Department. During his time at the FCA, Matteo also served as the vice-chair of the IOSCO Committee on Emerging Risks. Matteo's research has been published in several academic journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and the Journal of Financial Markets.

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Financial stability and macro-prudential issues
Financial markets

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BIS Working Paper No 1358 9 Jun 2026

Asset price bubbles and systemic risk in money market funds

FocusWe investigate how asset price bubbles interact with systemic risk in the money market fund (MMF) sector, using a large…

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Matteo Aquilina

Adviser for Financial Stability

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All BIS publications (18)

Asset price bubbles and systemic risk in money market funds

The rise of tokenised money market funds

The transformation of the life insurance industry: systemic risks and policy challenges

Harnessing artificial intelligence for monitoring financial markets

The speed premium: high-frequency trading and the cost of capital

Stablecoin growth - policy challenges and approaches

Cryptocurrencies and decentralised finance: functions and financial stability implications

Commonality under pressure: banks and funds

Negative interest rate swap spreads signal pressure in government debt absorption

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Mainstreaming Tokenised Finance: How Money Market Funds Are Going Digital

How AI can help detect warning signs of financial market stress

Harnessing artificial intelligence for monitoring financial markets: early warning signals from interpretable machine learning

Navigating how state policies impact the venture capital landscape

Tackling the risks in crypto: choosing among bans, containment and regulation

Sharks in the dark: quantifying HFT dark pool latency arbitrage

Decentralized finance (DeFi): a functional approach

Authorised participants as shock absorbers in fixed-income ETFs

Decentralised finance (DeFi): a functional approach

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