BIS
Set
27
2018
The Bank for International Settlement (BIS) published an extended report aimed at assessing which factors can determine local lending by banks’ foreign subsidiaries. The literature on the behaviour of global banks has focused mainly on cross-border. It is however interesting to explore the local lending market ...more »
Set
01
2018
The Basel Committee today released a technical amendment on additional Pillar 3 disclosure requirements for those jurisdictions implementing an expected credit loss (ECL) accounting model as well as for those adopting transitional arrangements for the regulatory treatment of accounting provisions. Technical amendments are defined as ...more »
Ago
04
2018
The Bank for International Settlement published the statistical results for end-of-March 2018 on global liquidity indicators. The results are summarized as follows. US dollar credit to non-bank borrowers outside the United States rose to $11.5 trillion at end-March 2018, up by 7% over the previous year. Euro-denominated ...more »
Lug
07
2018
The Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS) mandated a Working Group co-chaired by Ulrich Bindseil (European Central Bank) and Steven B Kamin (Federal Reserve Board of Governors) to identify and provide evidence for the channels through which a “low-for-long” scenario might affect financial stability, ...more »
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Giu
23
2018
The Bank for International settlement published a research paper aimed at estimating the probability of an economy hitting its effective lower bound (ELB) on the nominal interest rate and of the expected duration of such an event for eight advanced economies. The paper estimates the ...more »
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BIS reports on CDS global market
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Giu
06
2018
The Bank of International Settlement (BIS) quarterly review this June focused on the CDS market, ten years the CDS “Bangs”. The CDS Bangs were the first real attempt to build a Standardized CDS market, to face this market’s shortcomings, which were fully unveiled by the ...more »
Technology is no substitute for trust
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Mag
28
2018
The General Manager of the Bank for International Settlement (BIS) Agustín Carstens, released an interview to the German Financial Newspaper Boersen Zeitung. The main object of the interview was trust, namely, what should be the best way to preserve trust in financial transactions. We report here an ...more »
BIS: Price Stability and Emerging Markets
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Mag
08
2018
The Monetary and Economic Department of the Bank of International Settlement (BIS) published a working paper assessing the issue of conducting a wise monetary policy in emerging countries. In particular, the focus is whether central banks in emerging markets should take systemic risk into account ...more »
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BIS: report on Fintech credit market
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Mag
02
2018
The Bank of International Settlement (BIS) published today a report on FinTech credit, that is, credit activity facilitated by electronic platforms such as peer-to-peer lenders. The report aims at shed light on the significant uncertainty as to how FinTech credit markets will develop and how they ...more »
Apr
06
2018
The Bank for International Settlement (BIS) recently completed work on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), analysing their potential implications for payment systems, monetary policy implementation and transmission as well as for the structure and stability of the financial system. We summarize here the main findings of ...more »
