The BIS publishes select speeches delivered by senior central bankers. To assist researchers, the BIS offers a pre-compiled full text extract of the speeches delivered by central bankers since 1996.
Access to the files can be via manual download (below) or programmatically, using the BIS open source library gingado. Steps to download using the library are provided below.
In providing these downloads, the BIS does not make guarantees as to the accuracy nor the completeness of the speeches. The views expressed in these speeches are those of the speakers and not of the BIS. Use of the content is allowed for noncommercial purposes, and in line with the BIS terms and conditions.
Last updated on 1 Jul 2026
To ensure that data is displayed correctly in Microsoft Excel, open a blank spreadsheet and import the data by opening the "Data" tab in the ribbon menu and selecting "From Text/CSV". From here the text file may be selected and loaded in the spreadsheet.
The files are updated on a regular basis, with the last update date indicated on this page.
The speeches are available for download as a compressed volume of individual UTF-8 encoded text files. Content in the files are delimited by commas.
Some speeches may have been converted from other file formats to plain text through machine processing, which might have affected the contents of the files. Due to the nature of the process involved, some text extraction artifacts such as page numbers, headers or footers may still be present in the files.
These files contain all entries in the Central Bankers' speeches list from 1996. While the BIS makes reasonable efforts to republish these speeches from central banks, there are no guarantees made as to the completeness of the list.
The suggested bibliographical reference to this dataset is:
Bank for International Settlements (2024). Central bank speeches, YYYY-YYYY, https://www.bis.org/cbspeeches/download.htm.
Please substitute YYYY for the relevant years.
The machine readable files may be accessed programmatically using the BIS open source library gingado. After installing the library, the files can be downloaded using Python as follows:
from gingado.datasets import load_CB_speeches
all_speeches = load_CB_speeches()
speeches_2021_to_2023 = load_CB_speeches([2021, 2022, 2023])