Umar Faruqui
Member of Secretariat
Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures
umar.faruqui@bis.org
Umar Faruqui joined the BIS in 2013. Previously, he was a Principal Researcher at the Bank of Canada. He holds a CFA charter, and an MA in economics from Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. He has written on different issues relating to financial stability and monetary policy.
Fields of interest
- Central banking
- Financial market infrastructures
- " How important are liquidity constraints for Canadian households? Evidence from micro-data" (with S Torchani), Bank of Canada Staff Discussion Papers, no 2012-9.
- " Assembling a real-financial micro data-set for Canadian households, Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, vol 35, no 1-2, 2010.