Bank of International Settlement
BIS Working Papers | No 827 | 11 December 2019 by Sebastian Doerr and Philipp Schaz PDF full text (1,725kb) | 71 pages Focus The Great Financial Crisis led to a sharp decline in cross-border banking integration, putting an end to the steady increase in such integration over...
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The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is an international company limited by shares owned by central banks which "fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks". The BIS carries out its work through subcommittees, the secretariats it hosts and through an annual general meeting of all member banks. It also provides banking services, but only to central banks and other international organizations. It is based in Basel, Switzerland, with representative offices in Hong Kong and Mexico City.
The cost of clearing fragmentation
BIS Working Papers | No 826 | 11 December 2019 by Evangelos Benos, Wenqian Huang, Albert Menkveld and Michalis Vasios PDF full text (588kb) | 47 pages Focus This paper studies the costs associated with clearing fragmentation as central clearing of over-the-counter...
Read More »Examining macroprudential policy and its macroeconomic effects – some new evidence
BIS Working Papers | No 825 | 11 December 2019 by Soyoung Kim and Aaron Mehrotra PDF full text (2,436kb) | 37 pages Focus Recent years have seen an increasing use of macroprudential policy to mitigate systemic risk. In addition to the effects on financial stability, theoretical...
Read More »Responsibility E: A compilation of authorities’ experience with cooperation
CPMI Papers | No 189 | 10 December 2019 PDF full text (572kb) | 31 pages The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) have observed that cooperation among authorities is evolving and that cooperative...
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Read More »Basel III monitoring data for external research: usage policy
Summary of document history Previous version Previousconsultation This version Subsequentconsultation Subsequentversion This version BCBS | QIS | 05 December 2019 | Status: Current PDF full text (132kb) | 6 pages Topics: QIS - Quantitative Impact Study...
Read More »Spread the Word: International Spillovers from Central Bank Communication
BIS Working Papers | No 824 | 02 December 2019 by Hanna Armelius, Christoph Bertsch, Isaiah Hull and Xin Zhang PDF full text (2,206kb) | 55 pages Focus Since the 1990s, central banks have made policy announcements both more frequently and with more ambitious aims....
Read More »Credit Valuation Adjustment risk – targeted revisions
Summary of document history Previous version Previousconsultation This version Subsequentconsultation Subsequentversion Basel III: Finalising post-crisis reforms 7 Dec 2017 Type: Standards Status: Forthcoming...
Read More »Guiding principles for the operationalisation of a sectoral countercyclical capital buffer
Summary of document history Previous version Previousconsultation This version Subsequentconsultation Subsequentversion This version BCBS | Guidelines | 27 November 2019 | Status: Current PDF full text (335kb) | 14 pages Topics: Macroprudential / systemic...
Read More »Joint BCBS-BCG statement on proportionality
Summary of document history Previous version Previousconsultation This version Subsequentconsultation Subsequentversion This version BCBS | Newsletters | 26 November 2019 | Status: Current Topics: The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision expects the Basel Framework...
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