Wenqian Huang

Senior Economist

Committee on the Global Financial System

wenqian.huang@bis.org

Wenqian Huang joined the BIS in October 2017. Her research interests include financial market infrastructures, systemic risk and financial innovations, in particular central counterparties, high-frequency trading and decentralised finance. She was the winner of the young economist competition in the 2017 ECB Sintra Forum on Central Banking. Wenqian holds a PhD in economics from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Fields of interest

Financial market infrastructures
Financial markets
Financial stability and macro-prudential issues

All BIS publications (21)

Publication 8 Dec 2019

OTC derivatives: euro exposures rise and central clearing advances

The composition of amounts outstanding in over-the-counter derivatives shifted towards the euro and cleared instruments.

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BIS Working Paper No 767 11 Feb 2019

Central counterparty capitalization and misaligned incentives

Financial stability depends on the effective regulation of central counterparties (CCPs), which must take account of the…

Publication 16 Dec 2018

Clearing risks in OTC derivatives markets: the CCP-bank nexus

Systemically important banks and central counterparties (CCPs) interact in highly concentrated over-the-counter (OTC)…

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All external publications (7)

External publication 15 May 2025

Constrained liquidity provision in currency markets

Andreas Schrimpf

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Fabricius Somogyi

External publication 25 Mar 2025

Central bank liquidity backstops, bank regulation and risk-taking by asset managers

Nikola Tarashev

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Iñaki Aldasoro

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External publication 15 Jul 2024

Model risk at central counterparties: is skin-in-the-game a game changer?

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External publication 1 Apr 2024

CCP auction design

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External publication 31 Dec 2023

Non-Standard Errors

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External publication 12 Jul 2023

The cost of clearing fragmentation

Michalis Vasios

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Evangelos Benos

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Albert J Menkveld

External publication 6 Aug 2020

Central counterparty exposure in stressed markets

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Albert J Menkveld

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All videos (4)

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Latest developments in DeFi

Video 4 Apr 2022

Latest developments in DeFi

While many call DeFi a black box or parallel system, the ecosystem has been growing strongly. What are the key drivers for…

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Roger Wattenhofer

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DeFi risks and the decentralisation illusion

Video 6 Dec 2021

DeFi risks and the decentralisation illusion

BIS Quarterly Review, December 2021.

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Andreas Schrimpf

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The pandemic-related financial turmoil of March 2020

Video 1 Mar 2021

The pandemic-related financial turmoil of March 2020

A year after the pandemic-induced financial turmoil of last March, BIS economists review some of the lessons on the functioning…

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Karamfil Todorov

00:02:27

OTC derivatives: euro exposures rise and central clearing advances

Video 8 Dec 2019

OTC derivatives: euro exposures rise and central clearing advances

Aramonte and Huang highlight trends in the composition of outstanding OTC derivatives and explore reasons behind the voluntary…

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