Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
BIS releases paper on low inflation environment
Bank for International Settlements challenges conventional thinking on inflation
BIS: highest CDO issuance ever but slowed overall derivatives trading
Global issuance of funded collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) reached a record $489 billion in 2006, showing strong investor interest in structured products. Synthetic CDO issuance also surged last year, doubling to $450 billion from 2005 issuance…
Reddy appointed chairman of BIS ACC
Yaga Reddy has been appointed chairman of the BIS Asian Consultative Council
BIS announces a fall in banks’ derivatives positions
The positive market value of banks’ derivatives positions fell by $214 billion in three months last year, as banks became warier of leverage.
BIS announces a fall in banks’ derivatives positions
The positive market value of banks’ derivatives positions fell by $214 billion in three months last year, as banks became warier of leverage.
BIS release their quarterly review
Report focuses on financial markets but also predicts an orderly economic slowdown
BCBS issue paper on credit risk concentration
A recent research task force project reviews the impact of credit risk on levels of bank distress
Credit derivatives still leading OTC growth, says BIS
Credit derivatives continued to be the fastest-growing sector of the over-the-counter market this year, despite rising numbers of early terminations.
Hidden dangers
Do op risk managers still care about the impact of reputational risk? Possibly not, reports Peter Madigan
In brief: BIS releases second quarter report
Locational and consolidated banking statistics have been published.
Basel Core Principles changed to reflect need for international co-operation
The 1997 core principles have been updated to reflect the need for international convergence and sound financial risk practices.
Banking supervisors endorse new Basel Core Principles
International banking regulators, meeting in Mexico, have endorsed 25 updated Basel core principles for effective banking supervision.
BIS: debt now bigger problem than inflation
4 October - The main structural threat to global economic growth is no longer runaway inflation, but a slower rebalancing of excess debt, according to a working paper released by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
BIS: debt now bigger problem than inflation
The main structural threat to global economic growth is no longer runaway inflation, but a slower rebalancing of excess debt, according to a working paper released by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
BIS says derivatives trading remains buoyant
Growth in international derivatives trading on exchanges stabilised in the second quarter with an increase of 13% between April and June, following a surge of 24% in the previous quarter, according to the latest Bank for International Settlements (BIS)…
Low volatility may not last, says BIS report
Low levels of asset price volatility owe much to structural changes in the market, but a slower economy could still push volatility up again, according to a Bank for International Settlements (BIS) report.
European, Chinese and Mexican central banks join BIS board
Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has expanded its director base to include elected representatives from the European Central Bank (ECB), People's Bank of China and Bank of Mexico. The move takes the number of board members to 20 and marks the…
BIS urges firms to strengthen risk management practices
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has released its quarterly review, in which it details the organisation’s activity over the past three months. In it, the BIS notes potential strains to the financial system and highlights where further work…
Growth in derivatives trading speeds up, says BIS
Trading on international derivatives exchanges has continued to pick up pace, according to the latest Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Quarterly Review, which was released today. The combined turnover in interest rate, equity and currency…
Basel Committee issues principles on home-host information sharing The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) has issued a paper on general principles for information-sharing between home and host supervisors for Basel II.
The two relevant principles are that a bank will be held accountable by its home supervisor (principle two) yet subsidiary banks may have to meet specific needs of its host country.
Growth of OTC contracts slows to 5%, say BIS
Rising commodity prices and a worldwide rally in equity prices during the second half of last year have dramatically increased the demand for over-the-counter derivatives protection in the sectors, according to the latest statistics released by the Bank…
Wellink named as new chairman of Basel committee
Netherlands Bank president Nout Wellink will succeed Jaime Caruana as chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
Home-host heads for Asia
SINGAPORE – Although the home-host debate has not yet raged in Asia as it has elsewhere, this will change over the next 18 months as regulators in the region begin to publish their policy papers, said Jacob Gyntelberg, a senior economist at the Bank for…
BIS publishes supervisory expectations of vendor products in IRB processes
The Bank for International Settlements has published its eighth newsletter on the views of the Basel Committee Accord Implementation Group's Validation (AIGV) Subgroup relating to the use of vendor products within internal ratings-based (IRB) approaches…