Bank of Japan (BoJ)
Beware 'buy-and-hold' banking model limitations
A clash of ideologies
Video: Japan earthquake highlighted ‘lifeline role’ of banking services
Hiromi Yamaoka from the Bank of Japan, Masao Hasegawa from MUFG, and Takashi Oyama from Norinchukin Bank explain the lessons learned following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11. These include the importance of comprehensive business continuity…
Lessons from Japan: Communication key to business continuity
Disaster response
Video: BoJ’s Hiromi Yamaoka on the failure of global rulemakers to learn from Japan’s ‘lost decade’
Experience from Japan’s financial crisis in the 1990s showed the importance of maintaining the core intermediation function of banks by not placing an excessive regulatory burden on them, a lesson that US and European regulators may have failed to grasp,…
Investors caught out by strength of Swiss franc and yen
Intervention from Swiss and Japanese authorities last week to weaken currencies meets with mixed success and leaves trading desks facing uncertain environment
Video: Tsuyoshi Oyama on the conflicted role of central banks post crisis
Bank of Japan veteran and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu partner, Tsuyoshi Oyama, discusses the changed role of central banks post-global financial crisis and potential conflicts with their new role.
Nuclear risks cloud Japan's economic outlook
The nuclear question
Japan disaster has broad impact across asset classes
Race to de-risk
BoJ’s Miyao pledges continuity of settlements system during planned blackouts
Bank of Japan Policy Board member Ryuzo Miyao says in-house power generation at central bank branches would support settlements systems ahead of planned power shortages
Sigor chair warns rising op risk losses not reflected in capital
Head of Basel op risk subcommittee notes rising losses in 2008 and 2009 compared with minimal capital growth
Japan crisis – business continuity amid a one-in-1,000-year event
Business continuity planning struggles to prepare for a one-in-1,000-year event such as the Japan disaster.
Japan injects ¥7 trillion; expands asset purchase programme by ¥5 trillion
Bank of Japan makes largest-ever same-day funds operation in bid to subdue market panic following Tohoku earthquake
BoJ leaps to action to soothe quake fears
Bank of Japan moves to assure investors that financial infrastructures are still working; central bank will work to maintain smooth liquidity, settlement conditions
BoJ governor becomes vice-chair of BIS
BoJ governor becomes vice-chair of BIS
Japanese exporters struggle with strong yen
The yen blues
CBRC’s Andrew Sheng talks about new era for policymaking
Theory failure
Shirakawa named as BIS vice-chairman
BoJ head takes senior role at BIS
Sigor tackles AMA range of practices in new consultation paper
Gives guidance on advanced approaches
Sigor chair says Basel guidance on insurance as op risk mitigant imminent
Guidance paper approved by Basel Committee looks at insurance as a mitigant for AMA institutions
Volatility drops as BoJ intervention proves successful
But market may begin testing the Bank of Japan's resolve if more measures are not taken
BIS appoints new Asian Consultative Council chair
Japan's central bank governor will become new chair of BIS Asian Consultative Council
Yen for yield
Inflation
Firefighting to fire prevention
Risk Japan 2009
