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14 Sep	Core principles for effective banking supervision (Basel Committee)
13 Sep	Regulatory reform: getting it done (speech by Ingves)
10 Sep	Choongsoo Kim appointed Chair of the BIS Asian Consultative Council
10 Sep	Economic Consultative Committee statement on LIBOR

04 Sep	The Social Value of Policy Signals (Working Paper)
03 Sep	Ageing, property prices and money demand (Working Paper)
03 Sep	Policymaking in an interconnected world (speech by Caruana)
31 Aug	International Journal of Central Banking (IJCB) September 2012 issue

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Research

04 Sep	The Social Value of Policy Signals (Working Paper) Do public policy signals improve the alignment of market outcomes with economic fundamentals? ...
03 Sep	Ageing, property prices and money demand (Working Paper) When the baby boomers joined the workforce and started saving, money supply and property prices entered a rising trajectory. We conclude that demography was the long-run driver of this process ...
31 Aug	International Journal of Central Banking (IJCB) September 2012 issue
24 Aug	The Effectiveness of Unconventional Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound: A Cross-Country Analysis (Working Paper) This paper assesses the macroeconomic e¤ects of unconventional monetary policies by estimating a panel VAR with monthly data from eight advanced economies over a sample spanning the period since the onset of the global -nancial crisis.

31 Jul

Public recapitalisations and bank risk: evidence from loan spreads and leverage (Working Paper)

A number of countries' authorities put in place bank rescue packages using public funds in response to the global financial crisis. Were these public recapitalisations followed by ...

31 Jul

Recovery and resolution of financial market infrastructures - consultative report (CPSS-IOSCO)

Financial market infrastructures (FMIs) play an essential role in the global financial system. The disorderly failure of an FMI can lead to severe systemic disruption if it causes markets to cease to operate effectively. Accordingly, all types of ...

25 Jul

Risk-on/risk-off, capital flows, leverage and safe assets

This paper describes the international flow of funds associated with calm and volatile global equity markets. During calm periods, portfolio investment by real money and leveraged investors in ...

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Speeches

Central bankers' speeches
14 Sep	Kazi Abdul Muktadir: Engaging the SMEs to stabilize economy Don Abel: The economy, uncertainty and institutional response Mohammed Iqbal Belath: Role of Islamic finance in the development of Africa Eddie Yue: Hong Kong - challenges and opportunities ahead Mojmír Hampl: The euro - the case of the European monetary integration project and its former hegemon Andreas Dombret: The European labour market during the crisis B Mahapatra: Highlights and rationale of the recommendations of the working group to review the existing prudential guidelines on restructuring of advances G Padmanabhan: Alternate payment channels - prepaid cards: issues and challenges Kazi Abdul Muktadir: Islamic finance developments in Pakistan Matthew Elderfield: The regulatory agenda for the funds industry Barry Whiteside: Building financial literacy and financial inclusion in Fiji
12 Sep	Anand Sinha: Financial stability: 2007 to 2012 - five years on Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile: Launching the Bank of Uganda Retired Staff Association Jörg Asmussen: Stability guardians and crisis managers - central banking in times of crisis and beyond Ryuzo Miyao: Economic activity, prices, and monetary policy
11 Sep	Jwala Rambarran: Financial inclusion in the Caribbean Jwala Rambarran: Strengthening financial stability in Trinidad and Tobago - staying ahead of the curve Daniel Mminele: The importance and development of sound financial market infrastructures to position South Africa in SADC, BRICS and worldwide Mario Draghi: For a European public space Michael Gondwe: Importance of the SME sector in Zambia

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BIS Management speeches
03 Sep	by Jaime Caruana: Policymaking in an interconnected world Is there scope for greater international cooperation in monetary policy? The answer is "yes". The need for cooperation in financial regulation is taken for granted but...
30 Jul	by Jaime Caruana: Interconnectedness and the importance of international data-sharing Interconnections within the financial sector make international cooperation essential to monitor and respond to vulnerabilities. In order to detect, for example...
24 Jul	by Jaime Caruana: Central bank cooperation: reflections on the experience of the last eight decades In our complex and interdependent world there is, and will continue to be, a clear need for structured, institutionalised central bank cooperation. To be effective and legitimate, such cooperation must continuously evolve... Also available in: Spanish
25 Jun	by Stephen G Cecchetti: Is globalisation great? This year the theme of the 11th BIS Annual Conference is the future of financial globalisation. Anyone who has lived through the last five years must surely ask: Is globalisation great? Given the orientation of the BIS...

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Statistics

31 Aug	Release of property price data
15 Aug	BIS effective exchange rate indices
19 Jul	Preliminary international banking statistics at end-March 2012

04 Jun	Quarterly Review: summary tables and detailed tables
09 May	OTC derivatives market activity in the second half of 2011
04 Jan	Statistics on payment, clearing and settlement systems in the CPSS countries - Figures for 2010

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Basel Committee

14 Sep	Core principles for effective banking supervision
13 Sep	Regulatory reform: getting it done (speech by Ingves)
17 Aug	Supervisory guidance for managing risks associated with the settlement of foreign exchange transactions - consultative document
25 Jul	Basel Committee: Capital requirements for bank exposures to central counterparties Regulatory treatment of valuation adjustments to derivative liabilities: final rule issued by the Basel Committee Basel III FAQs on counterparty credit risk rules

06 Jul	Margin requirements for non-centrally-cleared derivatives - consultative document
02 Jul	Monitoring indicators for intraday liquidity management - consultative document
28 Jun	A framework for dealing with domestic systemically important banks - consultative document
28 Jun	The internal audit function in banks - final document
26 Jun	Composition of capital disclosure requirements - Rules text

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