News
Nov
02
2018
The BIS’s Financial Stability Institute (FSI) and the G20’s Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) convened the fourth biennial conference on global standard-setting bodies (SSBs) and innovative financial inclusion on 25-26 October 2018 in Basel, Switzerland. The conference took place in the context of accelerating ...more »
Ott
27
2018
US dollar credit to non-bank borrowers outside the United States rose to nearly $11.5 trillion at end-June 2018, up by 6% over the previous year, with debt securities continuing to grow much faster than loans: by 8.5% compared with 2.5%. Euro-denominated credit to non-bank borrowers outside the euro area ...more »
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IVASS: Bollettino Statistico – Ottobre 2018
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Ott
27
2018
L’Istituto per la vigilanza sulle assicurazioni (IVASS) ha redatto lo scorso 25 ottobre il tredicesimo Bollettino statistico annuale. Il Bollettino riguarda l’attività assicurativa in Italia nel comparto auto delle imprese vigilate dall’IVASS (imprese nazionali e Rappresentanze per l’Italia di imprese con sede legale in uno ...more »
Ott
27
2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its first Annual Statistical Report (Report) on the European Union’s (EU) derivatives markets. The Report, based on data submitted under the European Markets and Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), provides the first comprehensive market-level view of the EU’s derivatives markets, which ...more »
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Ott
27
2018
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) Plenary met in Ottawa on October 23rd to discuss market developments and vulnerabilities in the global financial system. Members considered that, while global growth remained solid, it has become more uneven across economies, and some downside risks have begun to materialise. ...more »
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Ott
20
2018
The European Central Bank (ECB) recently issued a working paper which attempts to construct a measure of stress for European sovereign bond markets detaches itself from the use of sovereign bond spreads. Quantifying stress in sovereign bond markets is a relevant task since such tensions ...more »
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BIS: Bank stress testing principles
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Ott
20
2018
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has issued its Stress testing principles, which replace the Principles for sound stress testing practices and supervision published in May 2009. The 2009 principles were designed to address key weaknesses in stress testing practices as highlighted by the global financial crisis. Since ...more »
Ott
20
2018
The European Central Bank (ECB) published a research paper aimed at assessing the effects of forward guidance – the communication of central banks about the likely future course of their monetary policy stance – on the conduct of monetary policy. This kind of expectations management ...more »
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Ott
20
2018
The “la Caixa” Chair for Economics and Society conference held in Madrid on October 17 was an occasion for Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), to discuss the consequences of population ageing for economic policy making. In particular, the reform ...more »
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ECB: a task force on systemic liquidity risk
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Ott
13
2018
In December 2010 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) announced the introduction of the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) and the Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR) to be put in place in 2015 and 2018, respectively. In the European Union (EU), the LCR became a ...more »
