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Basel Committee press release: "Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision endorses revised liquidity standard for banks" including
Annex 1: Summary description of the LCR
Annex 2: Complete set of agreed changes to the Liquidity Coverage Ratio
New Basel Committee Charter
Speaking note by Mervyn King and audio file of the press conference

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11 Feb	Mortgage insurance: market structure, underwriting cycle and policy implications - Consultative paper released by the Joint Forum
07 Feb	International financial markets and bank funding in the euro area: dynamics and participants (by Jaime Caruana and Adrian Van Rixtel)
07 Feb	Statistical issues and activities in a changing environment (IFC Bulletin)
06 Feb	Understanding Global Liquidity (Working Paper)
06 Feb	Globalisation and inflation dynamics in Asia and the Pacific (BIS Paper)

31 Jan

Regulatory consistency assessment programme (RCAP) - Analysis of risk-weighted assets for market risk (Basel Committee)

30 Jan

International Journal of Central Banking (IJCB)

Special Supplemental Issue - Central Banking: Before, During, and After the Crisis

24 Jan

From ideas to implementation (speech by Stefan Ingves)

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Research

07 Feb

International financial markets and bank funding in the euro area: dynamics and participants (by Jaime Caruana and Adrian Van Rixtel)

This article investigates the development of bank funding in the euro area in recent years, analysing how euro area funding markets were severely disrupted by adverse feedback effects between the weaknesses of sovereigns and banks. These were reflected, for example, in important adjustments in ...

07 Feb

Statistical issues and activities in a changing environment (IFC Bulletin)

Proceedings of the Sixth IFC Conference, Basel, 28-29 August 2012.

06 Feb

Understanding Global Liquidity (Working Paper)

We explore the concept of global liquidity based on a factor model estimated using a large set of financial and macroeconomic variables from 24 advanced and emerging market economies. We measure global liquidity conditions based on the common global factors in the ...

06 Feb

Globalisation and inflation dynamics in Asia and the Pacific (BIS Paper)

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) organised a research workshop on globalisation and inflation dynamics in Asia and the Pacific on June 18-19 in Hong Kong SAR. The topic was endorsed by the Asian Consultative Council in February 2012 as the new monetary stability research theme for the two-year research programme of ...

30 Jan

International Journal of Central Banking (IJCB)

Special Supplemental Issue - Central Banking: Before, During, and After the Crisis

18 Dec

Why do firms issue abroad? Lessons from onshore and offshore corporate bond finance in Asian emerging markets (Working Paper)

Corporate bond issuers in emerging economies in Asia have often had a choice between an onshore market and an offshore one. Since 1998, however, many of these issuers have increasingly turned to the onshore market. This paper investigates systematically what factors ...

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Speeches

Central bankers' speeches
14 Feb	Peter Praet: Transition of the financial system Ignazio Visco: Effective reforms needed for balanced and rapid growth of the Italian economy Jens Weidmann: Crisis management and regulatory policy Patrick Honohan: Addressing the impact of the distressed property market Daniel K Tarullo: Dodd-Frank Act
13 Feb	Mario Draghi: Introductory statement at the Congreso de los Diputados de España Vítor Constâncio: Towards the Banking Union Andreas Dombret: Financial systemic risk - the national and international dimension of macroprudential policy Mark Carney: Summary of Canada's January 2013 Monetary Policy Report Pentti Hakkarainen: Enhancing the free information flow and cooperation between supervisory and other authorities
12 Feb	Janet L Yellen: A painfully slow recovery for America's workers - causes, implications and the Federal Reserve's response Patrick Honohan: "Garret's Europe and Ours" K C Chakrabarty: Banking as a fundamental right of the people! Andreas Dombret: Regulatory agenda of the international financial system - a coherent strategy Timothy Lane: Financial stability in one country?

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BIS Management speeches
22 Nov	by Jaime Caruana: Assessing global liquidity from a financial stability perspective Global liquidity has become a focus of the international policy debate. Despite accommodative monetary policies and a pickup in search-for-yield behaviour, several...
16 Nov	by Jaime Caruana: International monetary policy interactions: challenges and prospects Systematic incorporation of spillovers is an essential but missing aspect of most monetary policy decision-making processes. The policy influences that need to be taken into account involve short-term policy rates...
09 Nov	by Claudio Borio: On time, stocks and flows: Understanding the global macroeconomic challenges Five years after the financial crisis, the global economy remains unbalanced and many of the advanced countries are still struggling to return to robust, sustainable growth...
09 Nov	by Jaime Caruana: Financial inclusion: the role of the Basel Process I am pleased to welcome participants to this unique event that brings international standard-setting bodies together with advanced as well as emerging and developing countries...

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Statistics

31 Jan	Release of property price data
21 Jan	Preliminary international banking statistics at end-September 2012
15 Jan	BIS effective exchange rate indices
04 Jan	Statistics on payment, clearing and settlement systems in the CPSS countries - Figures for 2011

10 Dec	Quarterly Review: summary tables and detailed tables
28 Nov	BIS, ECB and IMF publish third part of Handbook on Securities Statistics
13 Nov	OTC derivatives market activity in the first half of 2012
09 Nov	Improving the BIS international banking statistics (CGFS report)

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Basel Committee

11 Feb	Mortgage insurance: market structure, underwriting cycle and policy implications - Consultative paper released by the Joint Forum
31 Jan	Regulatory consistency assessment programme (RCAP) - Analysis of risk-weighted assets for market risk
24 Jan	From ideas to implementation (speech by Stefan Ingves)
09 Jan	Principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting
07 Jan	Basel III: The Liquidity Coverage Ratio and liquidity risk monitoring tools

06 Jan	Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision endorses revised liquidity standard for banks (press release) including Annex 1 on " Summary description of the LCR " and Annex 2 on " Complete set of agreed changes to the Liquidity Coverage Ratio " New Basel Committee Charter Speaking note by Mervyn King and audio file of the press conference
03 Jan	Financial Instruments: Impairment (letter to the International Accounting Standards Board and the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board)

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