The 24th BIS Annual Conference took place in Basel, Switzerland on 27 June 2025. The event brought together a distinguished group of central bank Governors, leading academics and former public officials to exchange views on the theme "Central banking in times of digitalisation and fragmentation". The papers presented at the conference are released as BIS Working Papers, nos 1306 and 1307.
BIS Paper no 162 contains a speech by Agustín Carstens and remarks from two panel discussions, on "Perspectives on policymaking – a tribute to Agustín Carstens" and "Challenges for central banks in a changing world"
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