Hyun Song Shin: Big tech in finance
BIS Economic Adviser and Head of Research Hyun Song Shin discusses the entry of big tech companies into financial services and the new challenges this poses for financial regulators, consumer...
View ArticleAgustín Carstens: Risks to the global economy and the path to higher interest...
BIS General Manager Agustín Carstens speaks about the risks to the global economic outlook, the path to higher interest rates and the best way to achieve sustainable growth, as outlined in Chapter I of...
View ArticleClaudio Borio: Monetary policy frameworks in emerging markets
Claudio Borio, Head of the BIS Monetary and Economic Department, explains the particular challenges for emerging market central banks in setting monetary policy and the multiple tools they use.
View ArticleWilliam Coen reflects on his years at the Basel Committee
William Coen recently left his job of Secretary General of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. In this episode of BISness, he looks back at his years at the helm of the global standard setter...
View ArticleCatherine Schenk on why history matters for current economic events and...
Catherine Schenk, Professor of Economic and Social History at Oxford and BIS Lamfalussy Senior Research Fellow for 2018-19, explored BIS archives to shed light on central bank swaps. She discusses her...
View ArticleMarkets swing on trade and monetary policy
Claudio Borio sat down on 19 Sept to discuss the Bank for International Settlements’ latest Quarterly Review, which tells a tale of two opposing forces – trade tensions and monetary policy – and how...
View ArticleReserve management goes green: the BIS green bond fund
Ulrike Elsenhuber and Omar Zulaica, from the BIS’s Banking Department, explain how the BIS and central banks are supporting environmental sustainability and the greening of the financial system through...
View ArticleAmit Seru discusses the policy challenges of the fintech revolution
Amit Seru, the Steven and Roberta Denning Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business of Stanford University and 2018 Alexandre Lamfalussy Senior Research Fellow, discusses the policy...
View ArticleAgustín Carstens on the global economy, the role of fiscal policy and digital...
Agustín Carstens discusses whether fiscal policy coordination can help slowing global growth and how Libra sparked an important policy debate.
View ArticleFX and OTC derivatives markets through the lens of the BIS Triennial Survey
Hyun Song Shin offers some key analytical insights on foreign exchange and OTC derivatives markets from the latest BIS Quarterly Review, in which BIS economists take a deeper look at data from the 2019...
View ArticleThe design of digital financial infrastructure: lessons from India
Siddharth Tiwari explains India’s experience with designing digital infrastructure and the lessons it holds for improving cross border payments.
View ArticleHyun Song Shin explains what the BIS Innovation Hub is all about
Hyun Song Shin explains how the BIS Innovation Hub, a new project designed to support central bank collaboration on new technology and to pool resources, puts central bankers at the cutting edge of...
View ArticleLuiz Pereira da Silva speaks about “green swan” risks
Climate change poses new challenges to central banks, regulators and supervisors. Luiz Pereira da Silva reviews ways of addressing these new risks within central banks' financial stability mandate,...
View ArticleBruno Tissot speaks about "big data" and its implications for central banks
"Big data" is an increasingly important topic in the creation, storage, retrieval, methodology and analysis of multiple sources of information – for both the private and public sectors. Bruno Tissot...
View ArticleGeoff Summerhayes on climate change, insurance and the role of financial...
Global warming has increased the frequency and severity of natural catastrophes. Geoff Summerhayes explains the challenges related to climate risk assessment and the transition to a low-carbon economy,...
View ArticleMorten Bech: Technology is transforming payments
In this episode, Morten Bech explains what’s shaping the future of payments.
View ArticleFSI crisis management series - the banking crisis in Iceland publication
Patrizia Baudino speaks about Iceland in 2008 as part of the Financial Stability Institute’s new series on bank crisis management. https://www.bis.org/fsi/fsicms1.htm
View ArticleThe BIS at 90
Piet Clement explains the origins of the BIS and the roles it has played since opening on 17 May 1930.
View ArticleHyun Song Shin: Central banks and payments in the digital era
Hyun Song Shin discusses how central banks, as guardians of the safety and integrity of the payment system, must keep evolving to meet the challenge of rapidly accelerating digital innovation, as...
View ArticleAgustín Carstens and Claudio Borio on the central bank response to the...
Agustín Carstens discusses the monetary and fiscal response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the challenges facing central banks ahead. Claudio Borio talks about the steps central banks took as regulators...
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