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11/12/2018
The Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) today announced the election of Bank of Korea Governor Juyeol Lee to the Board….
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11/12/2018
Opening statement by Ms Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, at the Banking Supervision, Resolution and Risk Management conference during the 21st Euro Finance Week, Frankfurt am Main,…
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11/12/2018
Opening remarks by Mr Cleviston Haynes, Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, at the 50th Annual Monetary Studies Conference “Emerging Economic and Financial Issues in 21st Century Economies”, Bridgtown, 6 November 2018….
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11/12/2018
Speech by Mr Geoff Bascand, Deputy Governor and Head of Financial Stability of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, to the UBS Australasia Conference 2018, Sydney, 13 November 2018….
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11/12/2018
Address by Mr Ignazio Visco, Governor of the Bank of Italy, at the 64th Conference on Government Studies “Economic development, financial constraints and service quality – investments and guarantees”, Varenna, 22 September 2018….
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11/12/2018
Speech by Mr Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the UBS Conference, London, 13 November 2018….
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11/12/2018
Official remarks by Mr Moses D Pelaelo, Governor of the Bank of Botswana, at the Botswana Stock Exchange Opening Bell Ceremony, Gaborone, 1 November 2018….
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11/12/2018
Closing keynote address by Mr Olli Rehn, Governor of the Bank of Finland, at The Financial Times Middle East Banking Forum, Dubai, UAE, 11 November 2018….
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11/12/2018
Speech by Mr Denis Beau, First Deputy Governor of the Bank of France, at the Bank of France – Toulouse School of Economics joint conference, Paris, 12 November 2018….
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11/12/2018
Testimony of Mr Luigi Federico Signorini, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy, at the Joint Session of the Fifth Committees of the Chamber of Deputies (Budget, Treasury and Planning) and of the Senate of the Republic (Economic Planning and Budget), Chamber of Deputies, Rome, 9 October 2018….
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11/12/2018
Speech by Mr Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the European Central Bank, at the Opening Conference, 21st Euro Finance Week, Frankfurt am Main, 12 November 2018….
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11/12/2018
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) today announced that Siddharth Tiwari has joined the BIS as Chief Representative for Asia and the Pacific….
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11/11/2018
Address by Mr Ignazio Visco, Governor of the Bank of Italy, at the 94th World Savings Day, organized by the Association of Italian Foundations and Savings Banks (ACRI), Rome, 31 October 2018….
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11/11/2018
Speech by Mr Randal K Quarles, Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 9 November 2018….
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11/11/2018
Presentation by Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, at Singapore FinTech Festival 2018, Singapore, 12 November 2018….
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11/11/2018
Remarks by Mr Stephen S Poloz, Governor of the Bank of Canada, to the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce, London, United Kingdom, 5 November 2018….
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11/09/2018
Presentation by Mr Hyun Song Shin, Economic Adviser and Head of Research of the BIS, at the conference on “Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains”, University of Chicago Becker Friedman Institute, 9 November 2018….
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11/08/2018
Speech by Ms Andréa M Maechler, Member of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank, and Mr Thomas Moser, Alternate Member of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank, at the Money Market Event, Geneva, 8 November 2018….
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11/08/2018
Remarks by Mr Kevin Stiroh, Executive Vice President of the Financial Institution Supervision Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at the Financial Times US Banking Forum “Charting a Course for Stability and Success”, New York City, 1 November 2018….
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11/08/2018
Speech by Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at a conference on “Scaling up Green Finance: The Role of Central Banks”, organised by the Network for Greening the Financial System, the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Council on Economic Polic…
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11/08/2018
Welcome address by Mr Gent Sejko, Governor of the Bank of Albania, at the Annual Conference of the Bank of Albania, Tirana, 1 November 2018….
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11/08/2018
Commencement address by Mr Gent Sejko, Governor of the Bank of Albania, at the graduation ceremony of the students of economics, University of Tirana, Tirana, 7 October 2018….
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11/08/2018
Introductory statement by Mr Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, during his exchange of views with the House of Representatives, Dublin, 8 November 2018….
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11/08/2018
Address by Mr Philip R Lane, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, to the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, Dublin, 9 November 2018….
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11/07/2018
Address by Mr Francois Groepe, Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at the National Payment System Department’s annual end-of-year cocktail function, Centrurion, 5 November 2018….
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11/07/2018
Speech by Mr Vitas Vasiliauskas, Governor of the Bank of Lithuania, at the The FinTech Inn conference, organised by the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania, the Bank of Lithuania, Invest Lithuania and Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology (MITA), Vilnius, 8 November 2018….
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11/06/2018
Welcoming keynote address by Mr Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Deputy General Manager of the BIS, at the fourth FSI-GPFI conference on standard-setting bodies and innovative financial inclusion: implications of fintech and other regulatory and supervisory developments, Basel, Switzerland, 25 October 2…
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11/06/2018
Remarks by Dr Karnit Flug, Governor of the Bank of Israel, at the farewell conference marking the end of her term, Jerusalem, 4 November 2018….
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11/06/2018
Speech by Ms Nicole Stolk, Executive Director of Resolution and Internal Operations of the Netherlands Bank, at the EIOPA (European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority) Seminar “Recovery and Resolution in Insurance”, Amsterdam, 25 October 2018….
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11/06/2018
Statement by Mr Yi Gang, Governor of the People’s Bank of China, at the Ministerial Meeting of the 38th Meeting of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), Bali, Indonesia, 14 October 2018….
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11/06/2018
Speech by Ms Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, at the Luncheon of Chairs of Supervisory Boards of banks in Germany, Frankfurt am Main, 6 November 2018….
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11/05/2018
Remarks delivered by Dr Louis Kasekende, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Uganda, on behalf of Prof Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, Governor of the Bank of Uganda, at the Closure of the Financial Inclusion Week Get-Together, Kampala, 31 October2018….
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11/05/2018
Speech by Ms Chuchi G Fonacier, Deputy Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), on behalf of Governor Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, during the signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) of the members of the Philippine RMB Trading Community; Makati Cit…
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11/05/2018
Speech by Mr Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the European Central Bank, at the joint National Bank of Belgium / Toulouse School of Economics / Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management / European Central Bank colloquium, Brussels, 5 November 2018….
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11/05/2018
Opening speech by Mr Mugur Isărescu, Governor of the National Bank of Romania, at the Conference “The Danube Triangle”, Bucharest, 25 October 2018….
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11/04/2018
Speaking notes by Ms Anita Angelovska Bezhoska, Governor of the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia, for the EUROFI Financial Forum, 2018, organised in association with the Austrian EU Council Presidency, Vienna, 5-7 September 2018….
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11/04/2018
Welcome remarks by Mr Yannis Stournaras, Governor of the Bank of Greece, at the Bank of Greece Economic History Conference “The birth of inter-war central banks: building a new monetary order”, Athens, 2 November 2018….
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11/04/2018
Remarks by Mr Olli Rehn, Governor of the Bank of Finland, in the governors’ panel discussion at the Bank of Greece Economic History Conference “The birth of inter-war central banks: building a new monetary order”, Athens, 2 November 2018….
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11/04/2018
Welcoming remarks by Mr Donald Joshua Jaganathan, Assistant Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the Project Greenback 2.0 Kota Kinabalu Dinner, Kota Kinabalu, 3 November 2018….
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11/04/2018
Speech by Mr Denis Beau, First Deputy Governor of the Bank of France, at the Bank of France Conference, Rouen IAE, Rouen, 31 October 2018….
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11/04/2018
Interview with Mr Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, in BdP Revista, staff magazine of Bank of Portugal, conducted by Ms Isabel Arriaga e Cunha on 18 June 2018 and published on 2 November 2018….
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11/04/2018
Speech by Mr N S Vishwanathan, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, at XLRI, Jamshedpur, 29 October 2018….
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11/04/2018
Remarks by Mr Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, at the Science Museum, London, 2 November 2018….
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11/04/2018
Speech by Mr Yannis Stournaras, Governor of the Bank of Greece, in the governors’ panel discussion at the Bank of Greece Economic History Conference “The birth of inter-war central banks: building a new monetary order”, Athens, 2 November 2018….
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11/02/2018
This paper examines whether euro area unconventional monetary policies have affected the loss-absorbing buffers (that is the resilience) of the banking industry. We employ various measures to capture the effect of the broad array of programmes used by the ECB to implement balance sheet policies, whi…
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11/02/2018
Information about the fourth FSI-GPFI conference on global standard-setting bodies and innovative financial inclusion, Basel, Switzerland, 25-26 October 2018……
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11/02/2018
Interview with Mr AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, in Yicai Global, conducted by Ms Yang Yanqing and Ms Zhou Ailin and published online on 1 November 2018….
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11/01/2018
Speech by Mr AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, at the Finance and Global Economics Forum of the Americas and on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the University of Miami Business School, Miami, 1 November 2018….
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11/01/2018
Presentation by Mr Mario Marcel, Governor of the Central Bank of Chile, of the Monetary Policy Report before the Honorable Senate of the Republic, Santiago de Chile, 5 September 2018….
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11/01/2018
Address by Ms Elisa Ferreira, Vice-Governor of the Bank of Portugal, on the panel “From Repair to Vision: Conceptions for a common beneficial and resilient financial Architecture and institutional Framework in the EU” at the “Financial Stability Conference 2018”, Lisbon, 31 Octob…
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11/01/2018
Keynote address by Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, at the Singapore-China (Chongqing) Financial Summit, Chongqing, 2 November 2018….
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11/01/2018
Opening remarks by Mr Mario Marcel, Governor of the Central Bank of Chile, at the Central Bank of Chile’s Twenty-Second Annual Conference “Changing Inflation Dynamics, Evolving Monetary Policy”, Santiago de Chile, 25 October 2018….
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11/01/2018
Speech by Ms Anita Angelovska Bezhoska, Governor of the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia, on the occasion of the World Savings Day – celebration of the Macedonian Banking Association, Skopje, 30 October 2018….
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11/01/2018
Keynote speech by Mr Ong Chong Tee, Deputy Managing Director (Financial Supervision) of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, at the Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA) Annual Conference 2018, Singapore, 1 November 2018….
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11/01/2018
Closing remarks by Ms Caroline Abel, Governor of the Central Bank of Seychelles, at the 4th ESAAMLG Public-Private Sector Dialogue on AML/CFT, Mahe, 8 September 2018….
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11/01/2018
Speech by Ms Anita Angelovska Bezhoska, Governor of the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia, at the event on the occasion of the European Statistics Day, Skopje, 17 October 2018….
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11/01/2018
Remarks by Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, at the GIC Institutional Investors Roundtable, Singapore, 31 October 2018….
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11/01/2018
Speech by Mr Thomas Jordan, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank, to the Volkswirtschaftliche Gesellschaft des Kantons Bern, Berne, 31 October 2018….
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11/01/2018
Address by Mr Lesetja Kganyago, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at the South Africa Tomorrow Conference, New York City, 1 November 2018….
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11/01/2018
Special address by Mr John A Rolle, Governor of the Central Bank of The Bahamas, at the 13th ASBA-BCBS-FSI High-Level Meeting on Global and Regional Supervisory Priorities, Nassau, 30 October 2018….
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10/31/2018
Highlights from the OTC derivatives statistics at end-June 2018: the notional value of outstanding OTC derivatives increased from $532 trillion at end-2017 to $595 trillion at end-June 2018. The gross market value of OTC derivatives continued to decline, nearing $10 trillion at end-June 2018 from $1…
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10/30/2018
Keynote address by Mr AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, at the 13th ASBA-BCBS-FSI High-level Meeting on “Global and Regional Supervisory Priorities”, Nassau, 30 October 2018….
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10/30/2018
Remarks by Mr Philip R Lane, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, at the Bank of Spain-SUERF Conference “Financial Disintermediation and the Future of the Banking Sector”, Madrid, 30 October 2018….
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10/30/2018
Speech by Ms Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, at the 13th ASBA-BCBS-FSI High-Level Meeting on Global and Regional Supervisory Priorities in Nassau, Bahamas, 30 October 2018….
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10/30/2018
Opening remarks by Mr John A Rolle, Governor of the Central Bank of The Bahamas, at the Third Caribbean Roundtable on Industry Solutions to the Withdrawal of Correspondent Banking Relationships, Nassau, 29 October 2018….
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10/30/2018
Speech by Mr Ed Sibley, Deputy Governor (Prudential Regulation) of the Central Bank of Ireland, at the Central Bank/Trinity College Dublin School of Law conference “Culture, diversity and the way forward for corporate governance in Ireland”, Dublin, 25 October 2018….
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10/29/2018
Text of the A. D. Shroff Memorial Lecture by Dr Viral V Acharya, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai, 26 October 2018….
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10/29/2018
Remarks by Mr Simon M Potter, Executive Vice President of the Markets Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at the China Finance 40 Forum – Euro 50 Group – CIGI Roundtable, Bank of France, Paris, 26 October 2018….
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10/29/2018
Speech by Dr Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, at the Deutsche Bundesbank’s Capital City Reception, Berlin, 17 October 2018….
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10/29/2018
Closing remarks by Ms Caroline Abel, Governor of Central Bank of Seychelles, at the Official Launching of the 4th ESAAMLG AML/CFT Public-Private Sector Dialogue, Mahe, 7 September 2018….
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10/29/2018
Welcome address by Mr Pablo Hernández de Cos, Governor of the Bank of Spain, at the Bank of Spain-SUERF Conference “Financial Disintermediation and the Future of the Banking Sector”, Madrid, 30 October 2018….
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10/29/2018
Speech by Ms Anita Angelovska Bezhoska, Governor of the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia, at the debate forum, organized by the Institute for Business and Management “Heidelberg”, Skopje, 18 October 2018….
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10/29/2018
Speech by Mr Masayoshi Amamiya, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan, at the 2018 Autumn Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Monetary Economics, Tokyo, 20 October 2018….
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10/29/2018
Speech by Mr Sam Woods, Deputy Governor for Prudential Regulation of the Bank of England and Chief Executive of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), at the Mansion House City Banquet, London, 25 October 2018….
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10/29/2018
Keynote speech by Mr Masazumi Wakatabe, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan, at the “Nippon no Kakushin-ryoku (Japan’s Innovation)” Symposium, co-hosted by the Faculty of Economics, Keio University and Nikkei Inc., Tokyo, 25 October 2018….
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10/29/2018
Speech by Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at a conference on “Exiting Unconventional Monetary Policies”, organised by the Euro 50 Group, the CF40 forum and CIGI, Paris, 26 October 2018….
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10/29/2018
Keynote address by Ms Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus, Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the 10th International Conference on Financial Crime and Terrorism Financing “Reshaping Malaysia’s Future – Setting the goal for greater governance and transparency”, Kual…
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10/29/2018
How to manage failures of non-systemic banks? A review of country practices, FSI Insights No 10, October 2018….
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10/28/2018
Text of the First Lamfalussy Lecture by Mr Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, at the National Bank of Belgium, Brussels, 26 October 2018….
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10/28/2018
Speech by Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France, at the Euro 50 – CF40 – CIGI Roundtable, Paris, 25 October 2018….
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10/28/2018
Speech by Mr Richard H Clarida, Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC, 25 October 2018….
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10/26/2018
Full text of Irving Fisher Committee Working Papers No 18, October 2018……
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10/26/2018
Press Release – Basel Committee calls for further progress in the implementation of Basel III standards, 26 October 2018. Release of the “Fifteenth progress report on adoption of the Basel regulatory framework”….
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10/26/2018
The Basel Committee is publishing the fifteenth progress report on adoption of the Basel regulatory framework, October 2018….
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10/25/2018
Application deadline: 25 November 2018 | Corporate Facility Management| Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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10/25/2018
Conference on “Economics of Payments IX” hosted by the Bank for International Settlements and Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures on payments and financial market infrastructures, Basel, Switzerland, 15-16 November 2018….
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10/25/2018
US dollar credit to non-bank borrowers outside the United States rose to nearly $11.5 trillion at end-June 2018, up by 6% over the previous year, with debt securities continuing to grow much faster than loans: by 8.5% compared with 2.5%….
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10/24/2018
Keynote address by Mr AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, at the 17th IADI Annual General Meeting and Annual Conference on “Deposit insurance and financial stability: recent financial topics”, Basel, 18 October 2018….
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10/24/2018
Speech by Mr Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England and Chair of the Financial Stability Board, at the Economic Club of New York, New York City, 19 October 2018….
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10/24/2018
Panel remarks by Mr Claudio Borio, Head of the Monetary and Economic Department of the BIS, at the High-level conference on “The new bank provisioning standards: implementation challenges and financial stability implications”, jointly organised by the Bank of Spain, the Centro de Estudios…
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10/23/2018
Opening remarks by Ms Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus, Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the Central Bank of Malaysia’s Financial Stability Conference “Re-envisioning Financial Stability – The Path Forward”, Kuala Lumpur, 23 October 2018….
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10/23/2018
Keynote address by Mr Daniel Mminele, Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at the Risk South Africa Conference, Cape Town, 23 October 2018….
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10/23/2018
Introductory statement by Mr Ed Sibley, Deputy Governor (Prudential Regulation) of the Central Bank of Ireland, at the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (Head of Parliament), Dublin, 23 October 2018….
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10/23/2018
Application deadline: 18 November 2018 | Finance | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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10/23/2018
Application deadline: 20 November 2018 | International Association of Insurance Supervisors | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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10/23/2018
Article by Mr Claudio Borio, Head of the Monetary and Economic Department of the BIS, Mr Piti Disyatat, Director of Research, Bank of Thailand, Mr Mikael Juselius, Research Adviser, Monetary Policy and Research Department, Bank of Finland, and Mr Phurichai Rungcharoenkitkul, Senior Economist, Moneta…
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10/23/2018
How do emerging market corporates fare during periods of currency depreciation? We find that non-financial firms that exploit favorable global financing conditions to issue US dollar bonds and build cash balances are also those whose share price is most vulnerable to local currency depreciation. In…
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10/22/2018
Seventh Joint BIS-World Bank-BoC-BoI Public Investors Conference, Rome, Italy, 22-23 October 2018….
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10/22/2018
Speech by Ms Margarita Delgado, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Spain, at the IX Financial Meeting “Transformation of the banking industry in a new setting of digital innovation”, Madrid, 9 October 2018….
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10/22/2018
Keynote address by Mr Adnan Zaylani Mohamad Zahid, Assistant Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the General Insurance Agents Convention – “Distribution in a Digital Economy – Customer @ Core”, Bangsar South City, 18 October 2018….
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10/22/2018
Remarks by Mr Guy Debelle, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, at the Walkley Business Journalism Award, The Walkley Foundation, Sydney, 22 October 2018….
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10/19/2018
Application deadline: 18 November 2018 | General Secretariat | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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10/18/2018
Opening remarks by AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, at the BIS symposium on “New challenges for central banking” to mark the 20th anniversary of the BIS Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific, Hong Kong, 15 October 2018….
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10/18/2018
Public lecture by Mr Fernando Restoy, Chairman, Financial Stability Institute, Bank for International Settlements, at the International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, 16 October 2018….
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10/18/2018
Application deadline: 11 November 2018 | General Secretariat | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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10/18/2018
Application deadline: 30 November 2018 | Monetary & Economic Department| Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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10/18/2018
Application deadline: 30 November 2018 | Banking | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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10/18/2018
Application deadline: 30 November 2018 | General Secretariat | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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10/18/2018
Press Release – Basel Committee seeks views on the leverage ratio treatment of client cleared derivatives, 18 October 2018….
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10/18/2018
The Basel Committee is issuing a Consultative document on “Leverage ratio treatment of client cleared derivatives”, 18 October 2018….
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10/18/2018
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is releasing the newsletter no 20 on “Statement on leverage ratio window-dressing behaviour “, October 2018….
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10/18/2018
Keynote address by Mr Elliot Mwebya, Acting Deputy Governor, Bank of Uganda, to the National Payment Systems Bill Stakeholder Consultative Workshop, Kampala, 1 October 2018….
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10/18/2018
Remarks by Mr Randal K Quarles, Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Economic Club of New York Luncheon, New York City, 18 October 2018….
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10/18/2018
Address by Mr François Groepe, Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at UBS’s Ninth Annual Economics Conference, Cape Town, 19 October 2018….
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10/18/2018
Address by Mr Lesetja Kganyago, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at the ABSIP (The Association of Black Securities and Investment Professionals) National Conference, Johannesburg, 19 October 2018….
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10/18/2018
International banking activity was mixed in Q2 2018, slowing vis-Ã -vis some regions and sectors but continuing to expand vis-Ã -vis others. Overall, global cross-border bank credit contracted by $130 billion between end-March and end-June 2018, closing at $29 trillion. This left the annual growth r…
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10/17/2018
Press Release – Basel Committee issues final “Stress testing principles”, 17 October 2018….
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10/17/2018
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has issued its “Stress testing principles”, which replace the “Principles for sound stress testing practices and supervision” published in May 2009….
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10/17/2018
Opening remarks by Prof. Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, Governor of the Bank of Uganda, at the hosting of the Parliament of Ghana Finance Committee Members at a Benchmarking Exercise to Bank of Uganda, Kampala, 27 September 2018….
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10/17/2018
Remarks by Prof. Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, Governor of the Bank of Uganda, at the 18th East African Banking School, Kampala, 6 August 2018….
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10/17/2018
Opening remarks by Ms Caroline Abel, Governor of Central Bank of Seychelles, at the Visa – Digital Payments Workshop, Eden Island, 16 August 2018….
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10/17/2018
Speech by Ms Lael Brainard, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Denver Branch, Denver, Colorado, 15 October 2018….
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10/17/2018
Welcome address by Mr Pablo Hernández de Cos, Governor of the Bank of Spain, at the Conference “The New Bank Provisioning Standards: Implementation Challenges and Financial Stability Implications”, hosted by the Bank of Spain and co-organised with the Financial Stability Institute and the…
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10/17/2018
Opening remarks by Mr Florin Georgescu, First Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Romania, at the Strategica International Academic Conference “Challenging the Status Quo in Management and Economics”, Bucharest, 11 October 2018….
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10/17/2018
Speech by Mr Ã’ystein Olsen, Governor of Norges Bank (Central Bank of Norway), at RS Noatun, Horten, 18 October 2018….
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10/17/2018
Speech by Ms Lael Brainard, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the FinTech, Financial Inclusion – and the Potential to Transform Financial Services, hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program, Boston, Massachusetts,…
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10/17/2018
Address by Mr Guy Debelle, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, at the Citi 10th Annual Australia and New Zealand Investment Conference, Sydney, 17 October 2018….
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10/16/2018
Speech by Mr Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the “la Caixa” Chair for Economics and Society conference, Madrid, 17 October 2018….
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10/16/2018
BIS Papers No 99 – Central banks and debt: emerging risks to the effectiveness of monetary policy in Africa?, October 2018. In a period of rising trade protectionism and higher interest rates abroad, there is renewed urgency to ensure that debt, already on an upward path, does not impede the effecti…
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10/15/2018
Speech Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the ECB’s Money Market Contact Group meeting, Frankfurt am Main, 25 September 2018….
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10/15/2018
Keynote speech by Mr Norman T L Chan, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, at the Forum-cum-Dialogue on “Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructure Financing”, Hong Kong, 15 October 2018….
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10/15/2018
Speech by Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (The German Institute for Economic Research), Berlin, 17 September 2018….
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10/15/2018
Topics supporting address by Ms Elisa Ferreira, Vice-Governor of the Bank of Portugal, on the panel discussion of “Resolution and early supervisory intervention” at the “BCBS-FSI High-level Meeting for Europe on Banking Supervision”, Lisbon, 18 September 2018….
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10/15/2018
Remarks by Mr Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the European Central Bank, at the 1st Edition of the Prize José Echegaray of elEconomista, Madrid, 15 October 2018….
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10/14/2018
Panelist speech by Mr Haruhiko Kuroda, Governor of the Bank of Japan, at the BIS Symposium to mark the 20th Anniversary of the BIS Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific, Hong Kong, 15 October 2018….
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10/14/2018
Speech by Mr Klaas Knot, President of the Netherlands Bank, at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC, 24 September 2018….
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10/14/2018
Introductory statement by Ms Zoja Razmusa, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Lativa, at the annual conference of the Bank of Latvia “Payments in the 22nd Century: Future starts Today?”, Riga, 3 October 2018….
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10/14/2018
Speech by Mr Klaas Knot, President of the Netherlands Bank, at the EBF Conference “The Evolution of Power”, Groningen, 5 October 2018….
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10/14/2018
Speech by Mr Yandraduth Googoolye, Governor of the Bank of Mauritius, at the Mauritius International Financial Centre – Forward Looking conference, organized by the Financial Services Commission, Balaclava, 20 September 2018….
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10/14/2018
Remarks by Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France, at the Group of Thirty’s annual International Banking Seminar, Bali, Indonesia, 14 October 2018….
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10/14/2018
Keynote address by Dr Patrick Njoroge, Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, at the 7th Kenya Bankers Association Annual Banking Conference “Credit Market Dynamics in an Evolving Regulatory and Market Participants’ Environment”, Nairobi, 27 September 2018….
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10/14/2018
Address by Professor John Iannis Mourmouras, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece, at the launch of the second edition of his book at the NYU Stern School of Business, New York City, 28 September 2018….
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10/14/2018
Remarks by Mr Javier Guzmán Calafell, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Mexico, at the Euro 50 Group and Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) Meeting, Bali, Indonesia, 12 October 2018….
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10/14/2018
Keynote address by Mr Yannis Stournaras, Governor of the Bank of Greece, at the Second Sustainability Summit for South-East Europe and the Mediterranean “Challenges and prospects for sustainable growth”, Athens, 1 October 2018….
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10/12/2018
Keynote speech by AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Council of Arab Central Banks and Monetary Authorities Governors, Amman, 17 September 2018….
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10/12/2018
Full text of Irving Fisher Committee Working Papers No 17, October 2018……
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10/11/2018
Remarks by Dr Viral V Acharya, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, 12 October 2018….
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10/11/2018
Speaking points by Mr MojmÃr Hampl, Vice Governor of the Czech National Bank, at the conference “Are we on the verge of a new Euro Crisis?”, Copenhagen, 4 September 2018….
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10/11/2018
Welcome speech by Mr Jiřà Rusnok, Governor of the Czech National Bank, at the Currency, taxes and other institutes of financial law conference, Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague, 20 September 2018….
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10/11/2018
Speech by Dr Urjit R Patel, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, at the Central Vigilance Commission, New Delhi, 20 September 2018….
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10/11/2018
Remarks by Mr Arthur Yuen, Deputy Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, at HKIB Annual Banking Conference 2018, Hong Kong, 27 September 2018….
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10/11/2018
Opening speech delivered by Mrs Leila Matroos-Lasten, Acting President of the Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten, on the occasion of the Bridging Financial Innovation and Regulation Seminar, Willemstad, 29 June 2018….
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10/11/2018
Speech by Ms Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, at the Central Bank of Malta, Valletta, 12 October 2018….
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10/11/2018
Remarks by Mr Olli Rehn, Governor of the Bank of Finland, at the Panel Discussion on “Monetary Policy Frameworks”, Reinventing the Bretton Woods Committee, in the context of the IMF Annual Meetings, Bali, Indonesia, 11 October 2018….
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10/11/2018
Speech by Mr Ã’ystein Olsen, Governor of Norges Bank (Central Bank of Norway), at the Bank of Thailand – OMFIF High-level Seminar, Bangkok, 9 October 2018….
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10/11/2018
Speech by Mr Ã’ystein Olsen, Governor of Norges Bank (Central Bank of Norway), at the Centre for Monetary Economics (CME), BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, 25 September 2018….
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10/11/2018
Remarks by Mr John C Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at the Joint Bank Indonesia-Federal Reserve Bank of New York Central Banking Forum, Nusa Dua, Indonesia, 10 October 2018….
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10/10/2018
Address by Mr Pablo Hernández de Cos, Governor of the Bank of Spain, at the Conference on banking, profitability and monetary normalisation, organized by University of Deusto, KPMG and El Correo, Bilbao, 5 October 2018….
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10/10/2018
Speaking points by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the MNI Connect Roundtable, Singapore, 10 October 2018….
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10/10/2018
Speech by Mr Andrew G Haldane, Executive Director and Chief Economist of the Bank of England, at the Acas “Future of Work” Conference, London, 10 October 2018….
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10/10/2018
Plenary session address by Ms Luci Ellis, Assistant Governor (Economic) of the Reserve Bank of Australia, to the Melbourne Institute Outlook Conference, Melbourne, 11 October 2018….
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10/10/2018
Remarks by Mr Kevin Stiroh, Executive Vice President of the Financial Institution Supervision Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at the 4th Annual Culture and Conduct Forum for the Financial Services Industry, London, 4 October 2018….
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10/10/2018
Remarks by Ms Beverly Hirtle, Executive Vice President and Director of Research of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at the 2018 Federal Reserve Stress Testing Research Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, 9 October 2018….
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10/09/2018
Application deadline: 28 October 2018 | Corporate Security | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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10/08/2018
Keynote address by Mr Jan Smets, Governor of the National Bank of Belgium, at the conference “Ten years after the start of the crisis: contours of a new normal”, organised by the Belgian Financial Forum and SUERF, Brussels, 14 September 2018….
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10/08/2018
Welcome remarks by Mr Moses D Pelaelo, Governor of the Bank of Botswana, at the 2018 National Business Conference Dinner, Gaborone, 9 September 2018….
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10/08/2018
Welcoming remarks by Ms Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus, Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the Commemoration of the Centennial of Tun Ismail Ali’s Birth, Kuala Lumpur, 8 October 2018….
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10/08/2018
Speech by Mr Ed Sibley, Deputy Governor (Prudential Regulation) of the Central Bank of Ireland, at the Financial Centre Summit, organized by Finance Dublin, Dublin, 3 October 2018….
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10/08/2018
Lectio magistralis by Mr Salvatore Rossi, Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy and President of the Institute for the Supervision of Insurance (IVASS), at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Department of Economics, Venice, 5 October 2018….
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10/08/2018
Text of the Third Karl Brunner Distinguished Lecture by Mr Thomas Jordan, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank, ETH Zurich, Zurich, 20 September 2018….
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10/08/2018
Speech by Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at Les Champs du Possible, Châteaudun, 4 October 2018….
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10/08/2018
Welcome address by Mr Gent Sejko, Governor of the Bank of Albania, at the Second Conference of the Museum of the Bank of Albania, Tirana, 20 September 2018….
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10/08/2018
Welcome remarks by Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, at the Institute of Banking and Finance Distinction Evening 2018, Singepore, 4 October 2018….
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10/08/2018
Lectio magistralis by Mr Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the European Central Bank, opening the XXIX Edition of the Masters Programme in European Union law of the University Carlos III of Madrid, Madrid, 5 October 2018….
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10/05/2018
Application deadline: 20 October 2018 | Banking | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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10/05/2018
Application deadline: 4 November 2018 | Risk Management | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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10/05/2018
This paper studies the effects of prudential regulation, financial development, and financial openness on economic growth. Using both existing models and a new OLG framework with banking and prudential regulation in the form of capital requirements, the first part presents ……
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10/03/2018
The removal of the lower bound on the EUR/CHF exchange rate in January 2015 provides a unique setting to study the implications of a large and sudden appreciation in an otherwise stable macroeconomic environment. Using transaction-level data on non-durable goods purchases by Swiss consumers, we meas…
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10/03/2018
Central banks’ announcements that rates are expected to remain low could signal either a weak macroeconomic outlook, which would slow expenditure, or a more accommodative stance, which may stimulate economic activity. ……
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10/03/2018
Introductory statement by Mr Philip R Lane, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, before the Joint Oireachtas (National Parliament) Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (Head of Parliament), Dublin, 4 October 2018….
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10/03/2018
Keynote speech by Mr Norman T L Chan, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, at the Treasury Markets Summit 2018 “Crypto-assets and Money”, Hong Kong, 21 September 2018….
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10/03/2018
Remarks by Mr Norman T L Chan, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, at the Philanthropy for Better Cities Forum, Hong Kong, 20 September 2018….
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10/03/2018
Key notes by Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France, at the Working Group on Cyber Resilience round table, Paris, 14 September 2018….
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10/03/2018
Speech by Ms Lael Brainard, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Fed Payments Improvement Community Forum, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 3 October 2018….
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10/03/2018
Remarks by Mr Randal K Quarles, Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the “Community Banking in the 21st Century” Sixth Annual Community Banking Research and Policy Conference, sponsored by the Federal Reserve System, the Conference of St…
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10/03/2018
Speech by Mr Salvatore Rossi, Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy and President of the Institute for the Supervision of Insurance (IVASS), at the 50th Credit Day, Rome, 4 October 2018….
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10/02/2018
Speech by Mr Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Money, Macro and Finance Research Group Conference on the Resilience of the Global Financial Architecture, London, 27 September 2018….
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10/02/2018
Keynote address by Ms Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus, Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the Global Islamic Finance Forum 2018 (GIFF) “Value Based Intermediation – Beyond Profit”, Kuala Lumpur, 3 October 2018….
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10/02/2018
Welcoming remarks by Mr Abdul Rasheed Ghaffour, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the Roundtable Meeting of Centralised Shariah Advisory Authorities in Islamic Finance, Kuala Lumpur, 2 October 2018….
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10/02/2018
Address by Mr Daniel Mminele, Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at the Central Banking Seminar of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, 2 October 2018….
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10/02/2018
Keynote speech by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Bank of Latvia conference “Payments in the 22nd century: future starts today?”, Riga, 3 October 2018….
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10/02/2018
Remarks by Mr John C Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at the 42nd Annual Central Banking Seminar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, 1 October 2018….
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10/02/2018
Remarks by Mr Jerome H Powell, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the “Revolution or Evolution? Reexamining Economic Paradigms” 60th Annual Meeting of the National Association for Business Economics, Boston, Massachusetts, 2 October 2018….
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10/01/2018
We assess how a major, unconventional central bank intervention, Draghi’s “whatever it takes” speech, affected lending conditions. Similar to other large interventions, it responded to adverse financial and macroeconomic developments that also influenced the supply and demand for credi…
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10/01/2018
Remarks by Ms Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus, Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the Malaysian Insurance Institute (MII) Summit “Innovation in a Disruptive Era”, Kuala Lumpur, 28 September 2018….
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10/01/2018
Remarks by Ms Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus, Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the 2018 Kijang Emas Scholarship Award “Mastery, adaptability and perseverance”, Kuala Lumpur, 21 September 2018….
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10/01/2018
Opening remarks by Mr Nazrul Hisyam Mohd Noh, Assistant Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the #IDAREYOUChallenge2017 Grand Finale, Kuala Lumpur, 3 September 2018….
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10/01/2018
Opening remarks by Ms Elisabeta Gjoni, First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Albania, at the Second Conference of the Museum of the Bank of Albania, Tirana, 20 September 2018….
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10/01/2018
Speech by Mr David Rule, Executive Director of Insurance Supervision of the Bank of England, at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 23rd Annual Financials CEO Conference, London, 26 September 2018….
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10/01/2018
Opening speech by Dr Veerathai Santiprabhob, Governor of the Bank of Thailand, at the Fitch Ratings Thailand’s Annual Conference 2018, Bangkok, 2 October 2018….
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10/01/2018
Remarks by Mr Timothy Lane, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, 1 October 2018….
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10/01/2018
Speech by Sir David Ramsden, Deputy Governor for Markets and Banking of the Bank of England, at the Society of Professional Economists Annual Conference, London, 28 September 2018….
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9/30/2018
Speech by Mr Jerome H Powell, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at Rhode Island Business Leaders Day, Washington DC, 27 September 2018….
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9/30/2018
Interview with Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, in Der Tagesspiegel, conducted by Ms Carla Neuhaus on 19 September 2018 and published on 1 October 2018….
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9/30/2018
Remarks by Ms Victoria Cleland, Executive Director for Banking, Payments and Financial Resilience of the Bank of England, at the Technology and Innovation Risk Conference 2018, London, 25 September 2018….
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9/30/2018
Remarks by Mr Stephen S Poloz, Governor of the Bank of Canada, to the Atlantic Provinces Economics Council and Greater Moncton Chamber of Commerce, Moncton, New Brunswick, 27 September 2018….
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9/30/2018
Address by Mr François Groepe, Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at the RMB Morgan Stanley Investor Conference, Cape Town, 25 September 2018….
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9/28/2018
We study how domestic and global output gaps affect CPI inflation. We use a New Keynesian Phillips curve framework, which controls for non-linear exchange rate movements for a panel of 26 advanced and 22 emerging economies covering the 1994Q1-2017Q4 period. ……
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9/28/2018
Through the lens of credit risk ratings, we investigate how banks determine loan terms under capital constraints. Using a unique and comprehensive supervisory dataset of individual corporate loans in the US We show that unexpected adjustments to banks’ internal rating systems, which only alter h…
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9/27/2018
Press release about CPMI the release of the new Red Book payments statistics in a user-friendly format, 27 September 2018….
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9/27/2018
Press Release – the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision assesses Saudi Arabia’s implementation of the NSFR regulation and the large exposures framework, 27 September 2018….
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9/27/2018
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is issuing a “Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP) – Assessment of Basel large exposures framework – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”, September 2018….
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9/27/2018
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is issuing a “Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP) – Assessment of Basel NSFR regulations – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”, September 2018….
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9/25/2018
We find that the lending behaviour of global banks’ subsidiaries throughout the world is more closely related to local macroeconomic conditions and their financial conditions than to those of their owner-specific counterparts. This inference is drawn from a panel dataset populated with bank-leve…
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9/25/2018
Application deadline: 13 October 2018 | Banking | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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9/25/2018
Application deadline: 28 October 2018 | Corporate Security| Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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9/25/2018
Speech by Dr Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, at the Centre for European Policy, Freiburg im Breisgau, 20 September 2018….
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9/25/2018
Dinner talk by Prof Claudia Buch, Vice-President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the second Süddeutsche Zeitung conference on the topic of “Private debt and direct lending”, Frankfurt am Main, 18 September 2018….
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9/24/2018
Application deadline: 31 October 2018 | Committee on Payments & Market Infrastructures (CPMI) | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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9/23/2018
BIS Press Release – The September issue of the BIS Quarterly Review – Divergences widen in markets……
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9/23/2018
BIS Quarterly Review for September 2018: Divergences widen in markets – Special Features: Fintech credit markets around the world: size, drivers and policy issues; Regulating cryptocurrencies: assessing market reactions; The rise of zombie firms: causes and consequences; Term premia: models and some…
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9/23/2018
The BIS Statistical Bulletin is published quarterly and summarises all BIS statistics in tabular form. It includes introductions to each data set and a glossary of statistical terms….
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9/20/2018
Press Release – the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is issuing frequently asked questions on the liquidity risk treatment of settled-to-market derivatives, 20 September 2018….
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9/20/2018
Press Release – the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is finalising stress-testing principles, reviews ways to stop regulatory arbitrage behaviour, agrees on annual G-SIB list, discusses leverage ratio, crypto-assets, market risk framework and implementation, 20 September 2018….
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9/19/2018
We investigate if financial stress in countries where international banks are headquartered is a major driver of banking outflows from emerging market economies (EMEs). We find that when financial stress measured by sovereign or bank CDS spread or corporate bond spread increases, international banks…
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9/19/2018
Speech by Mr Andrew G Haldane, Executive Director and Chief Economist of the Bank of England, at the 100th Anniversary of the Bank of Estonia, Tallinn, 19 September 2018….
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9/19/2018
Opening address by Mr Gent Sejko, Governor of the Bank of Albania, at the presentation by Mr Patrizio Pagano, Executive Director for Albania at the World Bank Group, Tirana, 18 September 2019….
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9/19/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), during the MOA signing of the BSP, DTI, MCPI and APPEND, Manila, 17 September 2018….
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9/19/2018
Remarks by Mr Christopher Kent, Assistant Governor (Financial Markets) of the Reserve Bank of Australia, at the Reserve Bank’s Topical Talks Event for Educators, Sydney, 19 September 2018….
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9/19/2018
Opening address by Dr Veerathai Santiprabhob, Governor of the Bank of Thailand, at the SEACEN-BIS High-Level Seminar “Digital Technologies, Financial System and Central Bank Policy”, Bangkok, 15 September 2018….
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9/19/2018
Application deadline: 21 October 2018 | Human Resources| Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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9/17/2018
Foreign exchange and other fast-paced electronic markets (FPMs) have undergone a wide range of structural changes in recent years. Trading in FPMs has become increasingly electronic and automated, significantly changing the market ecosystem. Against this background, the report explores aspects of st…
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9/17/2018
Press release about Markets Committee analysing changes in fast-paced electronic markets (17 September 2018)……
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9/17/2018
Translation of an article by Hyun Song Shin, Economic Adviser and Head of Research of the BIS, in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), 15 September 2018….
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9/17/2018
Opening address by Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France, at the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de resolution (ACPR) Conference on Financial Supervision, Paris, 18 September 2018….
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9/17/2018
Speech by Mr Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, at the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de resolution (ACPR) Conference on Financial Supervision, Paris, 18 September 2018….
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9/17/2018
Remarks by Ms Sharon Donnery, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, at the Dublin Economics Workshop, Wexford, 14 September 2018….
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9/17/2018
Remarks by Mr John A Rolle, Governor of the Central Bank of The Bahamas, at The Bahamas Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Risk Management Conference, Nassau, Bahamas, 17 September 2018….
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9/17/2018
Application deadline: 30 September 2018 | Meeting Services | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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9/17/2018
The credit gap, defined as the deviation of the credit-to-GPD ratio from a Hodrick-Prescott (HP) filtered trend, is a powerful early warning indicator for predicting crises. Basel III therefore suggests that policymakers should use it as part of their countercyclical capital buffer frameworks. ……
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9/16/2018
Welcome remarks by Mr Vitas Vasiliauskas, Governor of the Bank of Lithuania, at the Economics conference of the Bank of Lithuania, Vilnius, 17 September 2018….
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9/14/2018
CPMI Press Release “Payment, clearing and settlement operators meet on global cyber-resilience”, 14 September 2018….
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9/14/2018
We develop a general equilibrium model with intermediaries at the heart of international financial markets. In our model, intermediaries bargain with their customers and extract rents for providing access to foreign claims. ……
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9/13/2018
Text of the 2018 Whitaker Lecture by Mr Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, at the Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin, 14 September 2018….
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9/13/2018
Speech by Mr Ed Sibley, Deputy Governor (Prudential Regulation) of the Central Bank of Ireland, at the Trinity College Dublin “Behind the Headlines” series, Dublin, 12 September 2018….
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9/12/2018
Speech by Ms Lael Brainard, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Detroit Economic Club, Detroit, Michigan, 12 September 2018….
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9/12/2018
Pointers for panel remarks by Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, at the 5th Milken Institute Asia Summit, Singapore, 13 September 2018….
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9/11/2018
Application deadline: 25 September 2018 | Monetary & Economic Department | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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9/11/2018
Speech by Prof Joachim Wuermeling, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at a reception to welcome the new chief representative of Deutsche Bundesbank’s New York office Gabriele Kabelac and to bid farewell to Dr Claudia Stirböck, New York City, 11 September 2018….
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9/11/2018
Speech by Dr Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, at the reception hosted by the Deutsche Bundesbank at the annual meeting of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik), Freiburg im Brei…
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9/10/2018
Opening remarks by AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, at the joint Danmarks Nationalbank-BIS conference on “Monetary policy spillovers in a financially integrated world” to mark the 200th anniversary of Danmarks Nationalbank, Copenhagen, 7 September 2018….
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9/09/2018
Press statement by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), for the 2017 Financial Stability Report Press Briefing, Manila, 28 August 2018….
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9/09/2018
Speech by Mr Adrian Orr, Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, to the “Shaping Futures National Conference” Financial Services Council, Auckland, 7 September 2018….
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9/09/2018
Speech by Ms Michele Bullock, Assistant Governor (Financial System) of the Reserve Bank of Australia, at the Ai Group lunch, Albury-Wodonga, 10 September 2018….
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9/09/2018
Statement by Ms Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, at the Eurofi Financial Forum 2018, Vienna, 6 September 2018….
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9/09/2018
Speech by Mr Liviu Voinea, Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Romania, at the Conference “2018 Property Fund Investor Days”, Macroeconomics Panel, Bucharest, 6 September 2018….
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9/09/2018
Remarks by Ms Carolyn Wilkins, Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, to the Saskatchewan Trade & Export Partnership, Regina, Saskatchewan, 6 September 2018….
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9/09/2018
Speech by Mr Fritz Zurbrügg, Member of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank, at the University of Lucerne, Lucerne, 6 September 2018….
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9/05/2018
Speech by Mr Per Callesen, Governor of the National Bank of Denmark, at the Finance Denmark’s Executive Conference, Copenhagen, 3 September 2018….
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9/05/2018
Speech by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the ESCB Legal Conference, Frankfurt am Main, 6 September 2018….
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9/04/2018
Presentation by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), during the Forum of the Economic Journalists’ Association of the Philippines (EJAP), Manila, 28 August 2018….
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9/04/2018
Remarks by Mr Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Eurofi Financial Forum 2018, Vienna, 5 September 2018….
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9/04/2018
Interview with Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, in Kathimerini, conducted by Ms Eirini Chrysolora and published on 5 September 2018….
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9/03/2018
Keynote speech by Mr Frank Elderson, Executive Director of Supervision of the Netherlands Bank, at the Global Capital Sustainable & Responsible Markets Forum 2018, Amsterdam, 4 September 2018….
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9/03/2018
Opening remarks by Mr AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, at the Ninth Irving Fisher Committee (IFC) Conference, Basel, 30 August 2018….
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9/03/2018
Info about the Ninth IFC Conference “Are post-crisis statistical initiatives completed?” held in Basel, 30-31 August 2018……
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9/02/2018
Opening remarks (by phone) by Mr Timothy N J Antoine, Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, at the Single Insurance and Pension Market Project (SIPMP) Change Management Strategy Meeting, Basseterre 2 July 2018….
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9/02/2018
Keynote address by Mr B P Kanungo, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, at the Financial Market Conclave of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mumbai, 31 August 2018….
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9/02/2018
Welcome address by Mr Pablo Hernández de Cos, Governor of the Bank of Spain, at the Second Annual Research Conference of the Bank of Spain, Madrid, 3 September 2018….
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9/02/2018
Speech by Mr Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the European Central Bank, at La Granda courses, Asturias, 31 August 2018….
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9/02/2018
Speech by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the European Institute of Financial Regulation (EIFR), Paris, 3 September 2018….
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9/02/2018
Keynote speech by Mr Haruhiko Kuroda, Governor of the Bank of Japan, at the symposium commemorating the 30th anniversary of stock index futures, Tokyo, 3 September 2018….
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8/31/2018
Keynote address by Prof Claudia Buch, Vice-President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the 9th biennial IFC Conference “Are post-crisis statistical initiatives completed?”, Basel, 30 August 2018….
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8/30/2018
Keynote address by Mr Loi M Bakani, Governor of the Bank of Papua New Guinea, at the Asia-Pacific Financial Inclusion Forum on “The Inclusion Imperatives: Advancing Policies, Targets and Plans”, Tokyo, 27-28 June 2018….
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8/30/2018
Welcome note by Mr Tariq Bajwa, Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, at State Bank of Pakistan’s 70-year Celebration Event, Karachi, 1 July 2018….
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8/30/2018
Closing remarks by Dr Chiranjibi Nepal, Governor of the Central Bank of Nepal (Nepal Rastra Bank), at the 21st Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) Plenary Meeting, Kathmandu, 27 July 2018….
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8/30/2018
Introductory statement by Dr Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, at a discussion with the Association of the Foreign Press (VAP), Berlin, 23 August 2018….
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8/30/2018
Remarks by Mr Salvatore Rossi, Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy and President of the Institute for the Supervision of Insurance (IVASS), at the Wolpertinger Conference, Modena, 30 August 2018….
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8/30/2018
Speech by Dr Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, to the Hellenic Bank Association, Athens, 30 August 2018….
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8/30/2018
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is issuing a technical amendment on “Pillar 3 disclosure requirements – regulatory treatment of accounting provisions”, August 2018….
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8/29/2018
Every monetary policy decision by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) is accompanied by a written statement about the state of the economy and the policy outlook, but only every second decision by a published interest rate forecast. We exploit this difference to study the relative influences of q…
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8/28/2018
Keynote speech by Mr Ahmed Naseer, Governor of the Maldives Monetary Authority, at The Maldives Finance Forum 2018 “The role of institutional investors in long-term financing for growth and development”, Malé, 22 May 2018….
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8/28/2018
Speech by Mr Mahendra Vikramdass Punchoo, Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Mauritius, on the Impact of Basel III reforms in the implementation of Basel II/III in Emerging Market and Developing Economies, Port Louis, 24 July 2018….
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8/28/2018
Welcome address and opening remarks by Mr François Groepe, Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at the Innovation and Cybersecurity Conference, Johannesburg, 28 August 2018….
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8/28/2018
Keynote address by Ms Jacqueline Loh, Deputy Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, at the 14th FX Week Asia Conference, Singapore, 29 August 2018….
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8/28/2018
Speech by Dr Veerathai Santiprabhob, Governor of the Bank of Thailand, at Thailand Focus 2018, hosted by the Stock Exchange of Thailand, Bangkok, 29 August 2018….
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8/28/2018
Speech by Mr Andrew G Haldane, Executive Director and Chief Economist of the Bank of England, at at “Changing Market Structure and Implications for Monetary Policy”, a symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 24 August 2018….
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8/28/2018
The experience of a number of central banks in emerging economies indicates that capital flows can pose a dilemma. For example, raising policy rates can attract more capital inflows by raising deposit rates. It has been suggested, however, that raising reserve requirements instead of the policy rate…
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8/27/2018
Central banks increasingly rely on macroprudential measures to manage the financial cycle, but the effects of such policies on the core objectives of monetary policy to stabilize output and inflation are largely unknown. In this paper we quantify the effects of changes in maximum loan-to-value (LTV)…
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8/26/2018
Speech by Mr Jerome H Powell, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at “Changing Market Structure and Implications for Monetary Policy”, a symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 24 August 2018….
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8/26/2018
Remarks by Mr Stephen S Poloz, Governor of the Bank of Canada, at “Changing Market Structure and Implications for Monetary Policy”, a symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 24 August 2018….
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8/25/2018
In a world economy interconnected by global value chains (GVCs), domestic productivity depends on the availability of imported inputs and the vast majority of workers stands to lose from protectionism. To exemplify this, we provide a quantitative assessment of the aggregate and distributional effect…
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8/25/2018
Overview panel remarks by Mr AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s 42nd Economic Policy Symposium, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 25 August 2018….
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8/23/2018
Agenda of the Final conference of the BIS CCA Research Network on “Exchange rates: key drivers and effects on inflation and trade”, hosted by the BIS Representative Office for the Americas, held on 9-10 August 2018, Mexico City….
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8/22/2018
Remarks by Mr Philip R Lane, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, to the IMF / IMFER / Central Bank of Ireland Euro at 20 Conference, Dublin, 26 June 2018….
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8/22/2018
Remarks by Dr Urjit R Patel, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, for the Convocation Ceremony at the Meghnad Desai Academy of Economics, Mumbai, 3 August 2018….
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8/22/2018
Address by Mr Guy Debelle, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, at The Economic Society of Australia (QLD) Business Lunch, Brisbane, 22 August 2018….
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8/22/2018
Address by Mr Daniel Mminele, Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at the 5th Business Management Conference of the College of Law and Management Studies of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 23 August 2018….
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8/22/2018
Remarks by Mr Simon M Potter, Executive Vice President of the Markets Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at the 23rd EMEAP (Executives’ Meeting of East Asia-Pacific Central Banks) Governors’ Meeting, Manila, Philippines, 4 August 2018….
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8/22/2018
Speech by Mr Lindsay Boulton, Assistant Governor (Business Services) of the Reserve Bank of Australia, to the Business Banking Summit 2018, Sydney, 23 August 2018….
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8/21/2018
Speech by Mr Lesetja Kganyago, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, on the occasion of the announcement of the winners of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) Schools Challenge, Pretoria, 17 August 2018….
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8/21/2018
Remarks by Mr Ed Sibley, Deputy Governor (Prudential Regulation) of the Central Bank of Ireland, to the Institute of Banking Breakfast briefing “The Irish Mortgage Market – past, present and future”, Dublin, 6 June 2018….
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8/21/2018
Remarks by Dr Karnit Flug, Governor of the Bank of Israel, at the Eli Hurvitz Conference on Economy and Society, Tel Aviv, 19 June 2018….
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8/21/2018
Keynote speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the Philippine Economic Forum, National Press Club of the Philippines, Intramuro, 17 August 2018….
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8/21/2018
Remarks by Mr Philip Lowe, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, at the breakfast event to launch ASIC’s National Financial Capability Strategy 2018, Canberra, 21 August 2018….
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8/21/2018
Dinner speech by Dr Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, at the Annual Meeting of the Central Bank Research Association, Frankfurt am Main, 20 August 2018….
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8/21/2018
We study the interaction between solvency risk and funding costs using two data sets that collect detailed information at the quarterly frequency for Korean commercial banks. We use unique data on marginal funding costs at the bank level. This is the right measure to look at ……
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8/20/2018
Speech by Dr Viral V Acharya, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, at the Annual Global Banking Conference – FIBAC 2018, organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA), Mumbai, 20 August 2018….
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8/20/2018
This paper explores the basic question of whose monetary policy matters for banks’ international lending. In the international context, monetary policies from several countries could come into play: the lender’s, ……
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8/19/2018
Remarks by Ms Luci Ellis, Assistant Governor (Economic) of the Reserve Bank of Australia, at the Australian National University, Canberra, 17 August 2018….
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8/16/2018
CPMI and IOSCO are publishing a consultative report on “Governance arrangements for critical OTC derivatives data elements (other than UTI and UPI) – consultative report”, August 2018……
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8/16/2018
CPMI Press Release “Call for comments on governance of OTC derivatives data”, 16 August 2018….
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8/16/2018
Remarks by Dr Nadine Baudot-Trajtenberg, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Israel, at the Eli Hurvitz Conference on Economy and Society, Jerusalem, 20 June 2018….
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8/16/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at a luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club of Makati, Makati, 14 August 2018….
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8/16/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at a special brownbag session for the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) Working Paper (WP) No. 724 “Do small bank deposits run more than large ones? Three event studies…
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8/16/2018
Speech by Mr Philip R Lane, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, at the MacGill Summer School, Glenties, 27 July 2018….
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8/15/2018
Welcome remarks by Mr Ariff Ali, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Fiji and Chairman of the National Financial Inclusion Taskforce, at the 2017 National Microfinance Awards, Suva, 28 May 2018….
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8/15/2018
Welcome address by Mr Yi Gang, Governor of the People’s Bank of China, at the Tenth Lujiazui Forum, Shanghai, 14 June 2018….
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8/15/2018
Remarks by Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, at MAS’ Annual Report 2017/18 Media Conference, Singapore, 4 July 2018….
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8/15/2018
Presentation by Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, at the Nomura Investment Forum Asia, Singapore, 5 June 2018….
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8/15/2018
Application deadline: 10 September 2018 | International Association of Deposit Insurers | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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8/14/2018
Translation of an interview with Mr Claudio Borio, Head of the Monetary and Economic Department of the BIS, with Portafolio, conducted by Mr Ricardo Ãvila on 9 July 2018….
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8/14/2018
Welcome remarks by Mr Moses D Pelaelo, Governor of the Bank of Botswana, at the visit of Mr Tao Zhang, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, to Botswana, Gaborone, 25 July 2018….
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8/14/2018
Opening remarks by Prof Dr Ewald Nowotny, Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Austria (Oesterreichische Nationalbank/OeNB), at the 45th Economics Conference, Linz, 5 July 2018….
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8/14/2018
Speech by Ms Luci Ellis, Assistant Governor (Economic) of the Reserve Bank of Australia, at the Infrastructure Partnerships Australia (IPA) Leaders’ Luncheon, Sydney, 15 June 2018….
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8/14/2018
Remarks by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the Gala Dinner on the occasion of EMEAP Governors’ Meeting and Informal Meeting of EMEAP Governors and Heads of Supervisory Authorities, Manila, 4 August 2018….
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8/14/2018
Address by Mr Philip Lowe, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, to the Australian Industry Group, Melbourne, 13 June 2018….
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8/14/2018
Speech by Ms Vicky Saporta, Executive Director for Prudential Policy of the Bank of England, at the Westminster Business Forum Keynote Seminar “Building a resilient UK financial sector – next steps for prudential regulation, structural reform and mitigating risks”, London, 4 July 2018….
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8/13/2018
Speech by Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France and Chairman of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de resolution (ACPR), at the Conference of the ACPR, Paris, 8 June 2018….
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8/13/2018
Speech by Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France, at the Bank of France/Deutsche Bundesbank conference, Paris, 21 June 2018….
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8/13/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at “Perspectives”, organized by Citi Markets, Manila, 8 August 2018….
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8/13/2018
Speech by Mr Gent Sejko, Governor of the Bank of Albania, at the regional summit on “Region’s Financial and Monetary Stability, Ten Years since the Crisis Outbreak”, Governor’s Panel “Monetary policy and the stability of the banking systems in the countries of the region – a d…
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8/13/2018
Opening remarks by Ms Chuchi G Fonacier, Deputy Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the PESONet Media Forum, Manila, 7 August 2018….
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8/13/2018
Speech by Mr Abu Hassan Alshari Yahaya, Assistant Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the Credit Guarantee Corporation Malaysia Berhad (CGC) SME Awards 2018, Kuala Lumpur, 27 June 2018….
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8/13/2018
Opening speech by Ms Jacqueline Loh, Deputy Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, at the Artemis ILS Asia 2018 Conference, Singapore, 12 July 2018….
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8/13/2018
Remarks by Mr Lesetja Kganyago, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at the annual dinner in honour of the Ambassadors and High Commissioners to the Republic of South Africa South African Reserve Bank, Pretoria, 31 July 2018….
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8/13/2018
Welcome remarks by Ms Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the World Bank and Bank Negara Malaysia Forum on Performance Measurement for DFIs “DFIs of the Future: Maximising Development Impact”, Kuala Lumpur, 9 August 2018….
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8/13/2018
Speech by Mr Daniel Mminele, Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at the University of Zululand, MBALI International conference, Richard’s Bay, 1 August 2018….
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8/13/2018
Public lecture by Mr Lesetja Kganyago, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at the Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, 1 August 2018….
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8/13/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the “Providing a Safer, More Efficient, and More Inclusive Philippine Payments and Settlements System” Conference, Manila, 27 July 2018….
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8/09/2018
Interview with Mr AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, in LatinFinance, conducted by Mr Kevin Gray and published online and in print format on 2 August 2018….
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8/09/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the Reception for the Banking Community, Manila, 27 July 2018….
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8/09/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the 2018 MCPI Annual Conference, Manila, 26 July 2018….
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8/09/2018
Speech by Dr Jorgovanka Tabaković, Governor of the National Bank of Serbia, at the presentation of the Annual Financial Stability Report for 2017, Belgrade, 30 July 2018….
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8/09/2018
Keynote speech by Mr Ong Chong Tee, Deputy Managing Director (Financial Supervision) of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, at the Singapore Governance and Transparency Forum, Singapore, 6 August 2018….
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8/09/2018
Chat with analysts by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), via audio teleconference, Manila, 25 July 2018….
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8/09/2018
Interview by Ms Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, with Welt am Sonntag, conducted by Ms Anja Ettel and Ms Anne Kunz on 30 July 2018 and published on 5 August 2018….
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8/09/2018
Speech by Mr Masayoshi Amamiya, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan, at a meeting with business leaders, Kyoto, 2 August 2018….
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8/09/2018
Address by Mr Philip Lowe, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, to the Anika Foundation Luncheon supported by NAB and the ABE, Sydney, 8 August 2018….
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8/09/2018
Press release about BCBS, CPMI, FSB, IOSCO report “Analysis of Central Clearing Interdependencies”, 9 August 2018……
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8/07/2018
Abstract of “Incentives to centrally clear over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives – A post-implementation evaluation of the effects of the G20 financial regulatory reforms”, a consultative document from the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), th…
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8/07/2018
BCBS, CPMI, FSB, IOSCO press release about FSB and standard-setting bodies consulting on effects of reforms on incentives to centrally clear over-the-counter derivatives, 7 August 2018….
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8/06/2018
Panel remarks by Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at Rencontres Économiques d’Aix-en-Provence, Aix-en-Provence, 8 July 2018….
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8/06/2018
Speech by Mr Jan Smets, Governor of the National Bank of Belgium, at the ninth European Central Bank Conference on Statistics, Session 1: New data needs for monetary policy, Frankfurt am Main, 11 July 2018….
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8/02/2018
Article by Mr Claudio Borio, Head of the Monetary and Economic Department of the BIS, for the 70th anniversary of Zeitschrift für das gesamte Kreditwesen, published on 1 August 2018. At first sight, they seem unrelated. After all, why should low inflation and rising debt be linked? True, from the e…
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8/02/2018
Press release about CPMI and IOSCO publishing “Implementation monitoring of the PFMI: Level 2 assessment report for Canada”, 2 August 2018….
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8/02/2018
Implementation monitoring of PFMI: Level 2 assessment report for Canada published by the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions, July 2018….
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7/30/2018
US dollar credit to non-bank borrowers outside the United States rose to $11.5 trillion at end-March 2018, up by 7% over the previous year. Euro-denominated credit to non-bank borrowers outside the euro area grew at an annual pace of 10%, reaching €3.1 trillion at end-March 2018. US dollar credit…
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7/26/2018
Presentation by Mr Makoto Sakurai, Member of the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan, and Mr Masahiko Kataoka, Director, Secretariat of the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan, at the 30th Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar, Rome, 25 June 2018….
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7/26/2018
Keynote speech by Mr Mario Marcel, Governor of the Central Bank of Chile, at the IMF-SNB 8th High-Level Conference on “The international monetary system challenges for monetary policy and the global safety net in an evolving global economy”, Zurich, 8 May 2018….
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7/26/2018
Opening remarks by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), for the Q2 2018 BSP Inflation Report Press Briefing, Manila, 20 July 2018….
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7/26/2018
Keynote address by Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, at the Symposium on Asian Banking and Finance, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, 25 June 2018….
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7/26/2018
Keynote address by Ms Jacqueline Loh, Deputy Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, at the Central Bank Payments Conference, Singapore, 26 June 2018….
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7/26/2018
Introductory statement by Mr Philip R Lane, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, at the media briefing on Bank of Ireland’s 2017 Annual Report, Dublin, 9 May 2018….
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7/26/2018
Speech by Ms Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, at the Center for Financial Studies Colloquium, Frankfurt am Main, 29 May 2018….
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7/26/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the Institute of Corporate Directors 2018 Mid-Year Economic Briefing Fellows’ Breakfast Roundtable, Manila, 17 July 2018….
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7/25/2018
Remarks by Ms Sharon Donnery, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 31 May 2018….
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7/25/2018
Panel remarks by Mr Philip R Lane, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, at the ECB Forum on Central Banking, Sintra, 19 June 2018….
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7/25/2018
Speech by Mr Lars Rohde, Governor of the National Bank of Denmark, at the 200th anniversary of the National Bank of Denmark, Copenhagen, 4 July 2018….
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7/25/2018
Speech by Mr LuÃs Máximo dos Santos, Vice-Governor of the Bank of Portugal, at the 2nd International Conference of the Economic Chamber of Greece, Athens, 31 May 2018….
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7/25/2018
Keynote address by Mr Carlos da Silva Costa, Governor of the Bank of Portugal, at the International Finance and Banking Society Conference 2018, Porto Business School, Porto, 30 June 2018….
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7/24/2018
This paper estimates the impact of household debt on consumption behaviour using data from the Japanese Preference Parameters Study. Covering the 2005-13 period, the survey is the first of its kind for Japan. It features responses to forward-looking questions about key risks to income, shedding ligh…
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7/24/2018
Address by Mr Pablo Hernández de Cos, Governor of the Bank of Spain, on taking up office by the Governor of the Bank of Spain, Madrid, 26 June 2018….
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7/24/2018
Keynote speech by Ms Elisa Ferreira, Vice-Governor of the Bank of Portugal, at the CIRSF (Research Center on Regulation and Supervision of the Financial Sector) Annual International Conference 2018 “Banking Union at a crossroads”, Lisbon, 6 June 2018….
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7/24/2018
Address by Mr Pablo Hernández de Cos, Govrnor of the Bank of Spain, taking up office as a member of the Council of State, Madrid, 19 July 2018….
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7/24/2018
Speech by Mr Stefan Ingves, Governor of the Sveriges Riksbank and Chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, at the Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, 4 June 2018….
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7/24/2018
Closing session by Mr Javier Alonso, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Spain, of the seminar “La economÃa ante el blockchain. Lo que está por venir”, organized by the Menéndez Pelayo International University and the APIE (the Spanish Association of Economics Journalists), Santander, 2…
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7/24/2018
Speech by Mr Olli Rehn, Governor of the Bank of Finland (at time of speaking Deputy Governor of the Bank of Finland), at the seminar on “Central Bank Issued Digital Cash”, Helsinki, 13 June 2018….
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7/24/2018
Opening remarks by Ms Marja Nykänen, Member of the Board of the Bank of Finland, at the Banking in the Digital Age Conference, Helsinki, 14 June 2018….
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7/24/2018
Keynote speech by Mr Olli Rehn Governor of the Bank of Finland (at time of speaking Deputy Governor of the Bank of Finland), at the Finnish Climate Summit, Helsinki, 13 June 2018….
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7/24/2018
Welcome remarks by Mr Norman T L Chan, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, at the 2018 Green and Social Bond Principles Annual Conference, Hong Kong, 14 June 2018….
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7/24/2018
Speech by Mr Ignazio Visco, Governor of the Bank of Italy, at the Annual Meeting of the Italian Banking Association (ABI), Rome, 10 July 2018….
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7/23/2018
This report provides jurisdictions’ self-assessments of their progress, as of 1 January 2018, towards adopting the legislation, regulations and other policies that will enable them to implement the 24 Principles for FMIs and four of the five Responsibilities for authorities included in the PFMI….
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7/23/2018
CPMI Press Release “Jurisdictions continue to make progress in implementing standards for payment, clearing and settlement”, 23 July 2018….
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7/23/2018
Remarks by Mr Joshua Rosenberg, Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at the 7th Annual Risk Americas 2018 Conference, New York City, 17 May 2018….
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7/23/2018
Remarks by Mr John C Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at the Governance and Culture Reform Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, 18 June 2018….
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7/23/2018
Remarks by Mr Ignazio Visco, Governor of the Bank of Italy, at the Panel Discussion “The Real Effects of Disrupted Credit: Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis”, Per Jacobsson Lecture by Ben S. Bernanke, Bank for International Settlements, Basel, 24 June 2018….
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7/23/2018
Speech by Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France and Chairman of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de resolution (ACPR), at the press conference, Paris, 28 May 2018….
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7/23/2018
Speech by Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France, at the Bank of France conference, Paris, 25 May 2018….
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7/23/2018
Speech by Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France, at the GIC Central Banking Series Conference, Paris, 14 May 2018….
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7/23/2018
Opening address by Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France, at the Paris Europlace International Financial Forum, Paris, 11 July 2018….
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7/23/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the 2018 Awards Ceremony and Appreciation Lunch for BSP Stakeholders, Manila, 10 July 2018….
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7/23/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the BAIPHIL’s Induction of Directors and Officers and First General Membership Meeting, Makati, 13 July 2018….
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7/23/2018
Speech by Mr Ben Broadbent, Deputy Governor for Monetary Policy of the Bank of England, at the Society of Professional Economists, London, 23 July 2018….
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7/23/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the Launch of the Financial Literacy Program for Schools and MOA signing of the BSP, DepEd, and BDOF, Mandaluyong City, 28 May 2018….
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7/23/2018
Speech by Mr Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, at the Northern Powerhouse Business Summit, “Great Exhibition of the North”, Newcastle, 5 July 2018….
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7/22/2018
Speech by Jessica Chew Cheng Lian, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the Malaysian Association of Risk and Insurance Management (MARIM) Conference 2018, Kuala Lumpur, 17 July 2018….
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7/22/2018
Speech by Sir Jon Cunliffe, Deputy Governor for Financial Stability of the Bank of England, at the Cumbria Chambers of Commerce, Kendal, 13 July 2018….
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7/22/2018
Speech by Mr David Bailey, Executive Director for Financial Market Infrastructure of the Bank of England, at the Westminster Business Forum Keynote Seminar “The future for payments regulation in the UK – competition, innovation and end-user priorities”, London, 28 June 2018….
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7/22/2018
Opening remarks by Dr Veerathai Santiprabhob, Governor of the Bank of Thailand, at the Bangkok Sustainable Banking Forum 2018, Bangkok, 23 July 2018….
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7/22/2018
Address by Mr Lesetja Kganyago, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at the Nelson Mandela commemorative banknotes and R5 circulation coin launch, Pretoria, 13 July 2018….
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7/22/2018
Text of the Academy of Social Sciences Annual Lecture by Mr Andrew G Haldane, Executive Director and Chief Economist of the Bank of England, London, 28 June 2018….
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7/22/2018
Keynote speech by Ms Michele Bullock, Assistant Governor (Financial System) of the Reserve Bank of Australia, at the 5th Bund Summit on Fintech, Shanghai, 8 July 2018….
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7/22/2018
Keynote address by Mr Daniel Mminele, Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at the Asset and Risk Management Forum, organized by the South African Reserve Bank, Pretoria, 15 June 2018….
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7/22/2018
Speech by Mr Jerome H Powell, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the ECB Forum on Central Banking “Price and Wage-Setting in Advanced Economies”, Sintra, 20 June 2018….
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7/22/2018
Testimony by Mr Jerome H Powell, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, US Senate, Washington DC, 17 July 2018….
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7/22/2018
Speech by Prof Claudia Buch, Vice-President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the at the Ninth ECB Statistics Conference “20 years of ESCB statistics: What’s next?”, Frankfurt am Main, 12 July 2018….
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7/22/2018
Speech by Mr Randal K Quarles, Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Alternative Reference Rates Committee Roundtable, The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City (via prerecorded video), 19 July 2018….
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7/20/2018
Application deadline: 26 August 2018 | Monetary & Economic Department | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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7/20/2018
Application deadline: 26 August 2018 | Monetary & Economic Department | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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7/20/2018
It calls itself the “WhatsApp for work”, and now the Guild app has raised $1.2m (£880,000) in investment. The messaging app founded by Ashley Friedlein and Matthew O’Riordan is pitching itself at professionals looking to build relationships inside and outside their company. The duo R…
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7/20/2018
Cognizant has announced a successful modernized implementation of business processes and core banking systems for Bank Julius Baer in its Asia Pacific region as part of a comprehensive digital transformation….
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7/20/2018
Emerald Asset Management and 1251 Capital Group announced t that they have agreed to form a partnership between Emerald and 1251 to position Emerald for future growth by enhancing the Emerald team and its line-up of investment products….
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7/20/2018
Financial Engines, America’s independent investment advisor, and Hellman & Friedman, a private equity investment firm, announced the successful completion of the acquisition of Financial Engines by funds affiliated with Hellman & Friedman….
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7/20/2018
Uber driver employment rights could be transformed after a “ground-breaking” ruling about their worker status in New York. A state appeals board ruled some Uber drivers are employees and should have access to unemployment benefits when they leave the ride-hailing app service. It is anoth…
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7/20/2018
We look back at past episodes of financial stress in Asia with a forward-looking perspective. We put ourselves in the shoes of a contemporary observer with the data at hand and ask what evidence was available on the systematic build-up of vulnerabilities. We reconstruct a graphical narrative of bank…
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7/20/2018
Briggs Automotive Company has become the world’s first car manufacturer to go “climate-positive”. The Liverpool-based supercar brand – which is behind the Mono, the only single-seater car for public roads – is working alongside eco-digital firm The Poseidon Foundation t…
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7/20/2018
Medical technology firm LIG Nanowise has raised £2.6m in investment after developing the world’s first super-resolution microscope technology. The Manchester company released the Nanopsis M microscope in June 2017. It’s capable of magnifying tiny particles, known as microspheres, with…
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7/20/2018
Switzerland-based Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) has agreed to acquire London-based investment management firm, ACPI Investments, for an undisclosed sum….
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7/20/2018
Electric car charging points will become a more common sight on British motorways after the government passed the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act through Parliament. The legislation gives it new powers to ensure motorway services are upgraded with “plenty” of charging stations, while mayors will…
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7/19/2018
Morgan Stanley’s net revenues surged 12% to $10.6bn for the second quarter ended 30 June 2018, compared to the $9.5bn reported in the same period last year….
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7/19/2018
Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), Hong Kong’s de facto central bank and currency board, has released the open application programming interface (API) Framework for the country’s banking sector….
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7/19/2018
Walk down any residential street and almost every home will have a car parked outside. Maybe even two, three or more vehicles. In the US, more than nine in ten households owns a vehicle of some description in a country where 85% of people drive to work every day – only 9% of those carpooling with so…
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7/19/2018
BCBS Working Papers No 33, July 2018. This report aims to summarise and analyse the results of the second-wave of the survey conducted by the Basel Committee’s Research Task Force on the role of multiple regulatory constraints in the Basel III framework….
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7/19/2018
The pro-Remain industry network Tech for UK is set to host a “hackathon” this weekend pushing for a “people’s vote” on the final terms of Brexit. The two-day hackathon, named The Great British Hack-Off, will involve programmers and designers developing software and other tools that will provide vot…
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7/19/2018
European independent fund platform MFEX Mutual Funds Exchange has acquired Ahorro Best Funds, an investor platform operated by Spain’s Ahorro Corporación Financiera (ACF), for an undisclosed sum….
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7/19/2018
Sometimes there’s just not enough road ahead to get up to full speed – but the Aston Martin Volante Vision Concept shouldn’t have that problem. The British luxury vehicle brand’s “sports car of the skies” is a futuristic personal aircraft that could hit speeds of about 200mph – enabling owners to tr…
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7/19/2018
Liverpool is bidding to become the world’s first climate-positive city by 2020 – with the help of blockchain technology. The city council has signed an agreement with eco-digital company The Poseidon Foundation to integrate its “ground-breaking” blockchain-powered platform into its day-to-day operat…
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7/19/2018
The modest pickup in international banking activity that began in mid-2017 continued into Q1 2018. Banks’ cross-border claims rose by $451 billion between end-2017 and end-March 2018 to $30 trillion, up 2% year on year. The fastest growth was again in cross-border credit to non-bank financial bo…
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7/18/2018
Flying taxis, solar-powered planes and a fighter jet that shoots lasers – these are just some of the new innovations on show at the Farnborough Airshow. The week-long trade show, which began on Monday (16 July), gathers the best and brightest in aircraft development, attracting the industry&#…
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7/18/2018
Genstar Capital has agreed to purchase a majority equity interest in US-based Cetera Financial Group for an undisclosed sum….
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7/18/2018
Speech by Mr Yukitoshi Funo, Member of the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan, at a meeting with business leaders, Miyagi, 21 June 2018….
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7/18/2018
Speech by Dr Veerathai Santiprabhob, Governor of the Bank of Thailand, at the Bloomberg ASEAN Business Summit, Bangkok, 12 July 2018….
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7/18/2018
Statement by Prof Claudia Buch, Vice-President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, and Ms Sylvie Goulard, Deputy Governor of the Bank of France, prepared for the policy panel on “The Future of the Euro Zone”, as part of the joint conference “Monetary Policy Challenges” by the Bank of Fra…
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7/18/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the BSP 25th Anniversary Celebration, Manila, 3 July 2018….
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7/18/2018
Speech by Mr Randal K Quarles, Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the American Bankers Association Summer Leadership Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, 18 July 2018….
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7/18/2018
Welcome remarks by Mr Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the European Central Bank, at the meeting of the ECB’s Bond Market Contact Group, Frankfurt am Main, 26 June 2018….
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7/18/2018
Remarks by Mr Javier Guzmán Calafell, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Mexico, at the European Economics and Financial Centre’s Distinguished Speaker Seminar, London, 9 July 2018….
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7/18/2018
Keynote speech by Mr Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the National Bank of Romania, Bucharest, 3 July 2018….
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7/18/2018
Speech by Mr Philip R Lane, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, at the Ninth ECB Statistics Conference “20 years of ESCB statistics: What’s next?”, Frankfurt am Main, 11 July 2018….
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7/18/2018
Speech by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Panel at the Petersberger Sommerdialog, Königswinter, 30 June 2018….
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7/18/2018
Speech by Ms Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, at the Ninth ECB Statistics Conference “20 years of ESCB statistics: What’s next”, Frankfurt am Main, 10 July 2018….
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7/18/2018
Speech by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the conference on “Economic and Monetary Union – Deepening and Convergence”, Linz, 5 July 2018….
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7/18/2018
Bank of America has reported net income of $6.8bn, an increase of 33%, for the second quarter of 2018, compared to $5.1bn for the same period last year….
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7/17/2018
Welcome address by Mr Gent Sejko, Governor of the Bank of Albania, at the Conference on the “Modernisation of retail payment systems in Albania”, Tirana, 21 June 2018….
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7/17/2018
Opening address by Ms Elisabeta Gjoni, First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Albania, at the Conference on the “Modernisation of retail payment systems in Albania”, Tirana, 21 June 2018….
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7/17/2018
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has proposed measures to improve competition in the investment platform market….
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7/17/2018
Citi has introduced new payments service for institutional clients with real-time payments visibility and management….
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7/17/2018
Temenos, the banking software company, has signed a multi-year deal with global financial services company Northern Trust….
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7/17/2018
Santander Bank’s Business Banking clients are being introduced to a new Bank Operating System, in a move that will deliver a superior digital experience for customers that is as configurable and personalized as it is fast and easy-to-use….
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7/17/2018
Remarks by Ms Beverly Hirtle, Executive Vice President and Director of Research of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at the conference “The Effects of Post-Crisis Banking Reforms”, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, 22 June 2018….
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7/17/2018
Remarks by Mr John C Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at the Governance and Culture Reform Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, 18 June 2018….
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7/17/2018
Welcome address by Mr Gent Sejko, Governor of the Bank of Albania, to the Joint Bank of Albania-European Central Bank Regional Statistical Seminar, Tirana, 13 June 2018….
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7/17/2018
Keynote speech by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Frankfurt Finance Summit, Frankfurt am Main, 29 May 2018….
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7/16/2018
Application deadline: 7 August 2018 | International Association of Deposit Insurers | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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7/16/2018
Innovative technology in financial supervision (suptech) – the experience of early users, FSI Insights No 9, July 2018….
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7/16/2018
UK-based asset manager Montanaro Asset Management, has implemented Charles River’s Investment Book of Record (IBOR), which provides portfolio managers and traders with up to date position and cash information and removes manual reconciliation….
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7/16/2018
Speech Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Central Bank Payments Conference, Singapore, 26 June 2018….
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7/16/2018
Keynote speech by Dr Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, at the Conference “Economic and Monetary Union – Deepening and Convergence”, Linz, 5 July 2018….
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7/16/2018
Remarks by Ms Lynn Patterson, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, to the Investment Industry Association of Canada and Institute of International Finance, Toronto, Ontario, 18 June 2018….
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7/16/2018
Diebold Nixdorf has collaborated Mastercard to provide to offer an industry-defining, managed solution for the banking and retail sectors….
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7/15/2018
Sberbank and Tinkoff Bank have launched a joint transfer service that uses mobile phone numbers. ……
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7/15/2018
Speech by Mr Randal K Quarles, Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Utah Bankers Association 110th Annual Convention, Sun Valley, Idaho, 27 June 2018….
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7/15/2018
Speech by Mr Geoff Bascand, Deputy Governor and Head of Operations of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, at The Point Conference, hosted by Payments New Zealand, Auckland, 26 June 2018….
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7/15/2018
Remarks by Mr Stephen S Poloz, Governor of the Bank of Canada, to the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce, Victoria, British Columbia, 27 June 2018….
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7/15/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the Annual Convention of the Association of Philippine Correspondent Bank Officers (APCB), Puerto Princesa, Palawan, 30 June 2018….
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7/13/2018
Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions has entered into a strategic partnership with HighRadius, a software company specializing in cloud-based integrated receivables to launch Citi Smart Match….
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7/13/2018
West Texas State Bank will deploy Baker Hill’s loan origination software – Baker Hill NextGen Loan Origination to standardize and streamline its consumer, commercial lending processes….
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7/13/2018
Accuity, a subsidiary of RELX Group, has acquired US-based Safe Banking Systems (SBS) for an undisclosed sum….
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7/13/2018
US-based Guggenheim Securities has agreed to acquire financial services firm Millstein & Co. for an undisclosed price….
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7/11/2018
British fintech company FNZ Group has agreed to acquire investment platform ebase from Germany-based comdirect bank for an undisclosed price….
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7/11/2018
The 16th BIS Annual Conference took place in Lucerne, Switzerland, on 23 June 2017. The event brought together a distinguished group of central bank Governors, leading academics and former public officials to exchange views on the topic “Low for long or turning point?”….
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7/11/2018
The paper highlights some of the theoretical and practical implications for monetary policy and exchange rates that derive from considering the presence of a time-varying r*. ……
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7/11/2018
This paper develops a macro-finance model that features mutually reinforcing feedback loops between the output and risk gaps. The model incorporates aggregate demand channels and investor speculation arising from disagreement in beliefs about economic prospects. Volatility shocks generate ……
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7/11/2018
This paper studies a modern monetary economy: trade in both goods and securities relies on money provided by intermediaries. While money is valued for its liquidity, its creation requires costly leverage. ……
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7/11/2018
Mastercard announced that it is partnering with Florida Capital Bank to facilitate efficient and near real-time disbursements of funds to all branded debit cards in the US by integrating Mastercard Send….
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7/11/2018
Cynergy Capital has agreed to acquire Bank of Cyprus’ (BOC) wholly-owned subsidiary Bank of Cyprus UK (BOC UK) and its subsidiary Bank of Cyprus Financial Services (BOC FS) for £103m….
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7/11/2018
TokenPay Swiss has acquired a stake of 9.9% in WEG Bank along with options to buy another 90%, subject to customary regulatory approval….
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7/11/2018
Exchange technology provider Cinnober has collaborated with cryptocurrency security specialist BitGo to provide technology solutions to cryptocurrency exchanges….
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7/11/2018
Natixis Investment Managers has signed an agreement to acquire a minority stake in WCM Investment Management (WCM) and become their exclusive third-party distributor, subject to limited exclusions….
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7/11/2018
ACI Worldwide, a global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, and PAX, a provider of secure electronic payment terminal solutions, have entered into a non-exclusive global agreement to offer additional payment terminal options for merchants worldwide….
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7/11/2018
Keynote speech by Dr Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, at the joint Bank of France-Bundesbank Research Conference “Monetary Policy Challenges”, Paris, 21 June 2018….
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7/10/2018
Canada-based Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) has agreed to acquire Greystone Capital Management (GCMI), parent firm of institutional asset manager Greystone Managed Investments, for C$792m ($603.20m)….
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7/10/2018
Minnesota-based Citizens Alliance Bank has selected financial technology solutions provider Computer Services (CSI) as its new digital banking technology provider….
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7/10/2018
FinTech software firm Strands has collaborated with Mastercard to offer an integrated platform for issuing banks….
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7/10/2018
Citizens Financial Group has launched Citizens Access, a nationwide, direct-to-consumer digital bank in the US….
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7/09/2018
EQT Partners has agreed to acquire Saxo Payments Banking Circle, a cross-border payments infrastructure platform, for an undisclosed price from Danish investment banking company Saxo Bank and other minority owners….
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7/09/2018
TriCo Bancshares announced that it has completed its previously-announced merger with FNB Bancorp as of 6 July 2018….
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7/08/2018
Scotiabank has completed its $2.2bn (C$2.9bn) acquisition of Spanish lender Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria’s stake of 68.19% in Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, Chile (BBVA Chile)….
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7/08/2018
UnionPay International and the Bulgarian National Card Scheme signed a Memorandum of Understanding Agreement (MOU) with an aim to launch a project for enabling POS and ATM terminals in Bulgaria to accept the former’s chip card and support its contactless payment service….
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7/08/2018
IBM and Italian bank Banca Carige have launched a $500m joint venture (JV), which will focus on advancing bank’s digital capabilities….
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7/06/2018
myPOS Europe, a card payments provider to small and medium-sized businesses has joined forces with Faster Payments Service to offer even faster and better money transfers to its customers….
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7/06/2018
Wells Fargo has agreed to divest its majority stake in The Rock Creek Group to its management for an undisclosed sum….
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7/06/2018
The Western Union and Russia’s Post Bank have expanded their offering for digital international money transfers by enabling customers to use Post Bank’s mobile banking app to send Western Union Money Transfers directly into billions of bank accounts in more than 50 countries….
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7/05/2018
UK-based software firm Gresham Technologies has acquired Luxembourg-based B2 Group, a provider of cash and payments solutions, for an undisclosed price….
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7/05/2018
Russian conglomerate Sistema has sold its 28.63% stake in MTS Bank to Mobile TeleSystems for RUB8.27bn ($130m)….
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7/05/2018
Basel Committee issuing “Global systemically important banks: revised assessment methodology and the higher loss absorbency requirement”, July 2018….
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7/05/2018
Basel Committee issues revised G-SIB framework, 5 July 2018….
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7/05/2018
Intellect Global Transaction Banking (iGTB), the corporate banking technology provider from Intellect Design Arena, and Banco Santander, the euro zone’s largest bank by market capitalisation, have agreed a deal to implement iGTB’s Intellect Payments Services Hub (IPSH)- bringing next-generation paym…
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7/05/2018
The modefinance has unveiled new predictive solution for financial institutions, investments funds, corporates and Fintech companies….
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7/05/2018
The Committee on the Global Financial System is issuing a report on “Financial stability implications of a prolonged period of low interest rates”, July 2018. This report identifies and provides evidence for the channels through which a “low-for-long” scenario might affect finan…
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7/05/2018
Committee on the Global Financial System issues Financial stability implications of a prolonged period of low interest rates, 5 July 2018….
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7/04/2018
PayPal Holdings has announced the closing of its consumer credit receivables transaction with Synchrony….
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7/04/2018
Speech by Mr Fernando Restoy, Chairman, Financial Stability Institute, Bank for International Settlements, at the Westminster Business Forum Keynote Seminar, London, United Kingdom, 4 July 2018….
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7/04/2018
The UK’s proposed Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) has proposed a new directory for financial services workers to make it easier for people to be confident they can find the right people to deal with….
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7/04/2018
Libya’s Jumhouria Bank has signed a deal for SmartStream Technologies’ Corona solution for handling intra-day reconciliations management across cash, cards, branch, central bank and payment transactions….
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7/04/2018
Interview with Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, in Le Figaro, conducted by Mr Fabrice Nodé-Langlois and published on 25 June 2018….
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7/04/2018
Interview with Mr Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, in Expresso, conducted by Mr João Silvestre on 18 June 2018 and published on 23 June 2018….
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7/04/2018
Speech by Mr Javier Guzmán Calafell, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Mexico, at the panel on “End of QE and Rising Interest Rates: Implications for Advanced and Emerging Markets Economies”, during the 24th Reserve Management Seminar, organized by UBS, Thun, Switzerland, 26 June 2018….
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7/04/2018
Translation of an interview with Mr AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, in the Basler Zeitung, 25 June 2018. The “Tower of Basel” is the head office of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and regular meeting place of the most powerful central bankers in the world: Mario…
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7/04/2018
Translation of an interview with Mr AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, in the Basler Zeitung, 25 June 2018. “San AgustÃn”, Saint Augustine, is how he is still referred to by many Mexicans – exceptional reverence for a former politician in a country where the most powerful are…
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7/04/2018
Financial technology firm Airwallex has secured $80m funding to advance the production of its smart cross-border payment technology….
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7/03/2018
France-based Societe Generale has agreed to acquire the equity markets and commodities business (EMC) of Commerzbank for an undisclosed price….
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7/03/2018
Scotiabank, via its Colombian subsidiary Scotiabank Colpatria, has completed the acquisition of Citibank Colombia’s consumer and small and medium enterprise (SME) businesses….
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7/03/2018
Groupe BPCE has become the first banking group in France to provide instant payment to its customers with Natixis Payments….
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7/03/2018
Pacific Premier Bancorp, the holding company of Pacific Premier Bank, has completed the acquisition of Grandpoint Capital, the holding company of Grandpoint Bank, a California-chartered banking corporation headquartered in Los Angeles, California….
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7/02/2018
Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has secured approval from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) to increase its stake in the IDBI Bank from 10% to 51%….
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7/02/2018
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofA Merrill) has introduced fingerprint and facial recognition features in addition to an embedded token to its CashPro Mobile app….
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7/02/2018
Nordea, a Nordic financial services group, has signed an agreement to acquire Norway-based online bank, Gjensidige Bank, in a deal valued at NOK5.5bn (€578m)….
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7/02/2018
US private equity investment firm J.C. Flowers & Co. has completed a previously announced acquisition of Piraeus Bank Romania from Greece-based Piraeus Bank following the receipt of necessary approvals from the National Bank of Romania….
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7/02/2018
The UK’s New Payment System Operator (NPSO) said that it has taken on regulatory responsibility for cheque paper and cheque image clearing systems….
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6/29/2018
Application deadline: 29 July 2018 | Information Management Services | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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6/29/2018
Application deadline: 22 July 2018 | Banking department | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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6/29/2018
Basel Committee issues technical amendment to the Net Stable Funding Ratio, 29 June 2018….
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6/29/2018
Basel Committee issuing technical amendment on the Treatment of extraordinary monetary policy operations in the Net Stable Funding Ratio, June 2018….
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6/29/2018
The trade.io has introduced high-level security systems and practices for its upcoming cryptocurrency exchange….
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6/29/2018
Chase has announced that its all-mobile bank, Finn by Chase is now available nationwide to iOS users, offering millions of consumers a fully digital banking experience that helps them spend smarter and save better….
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6/29/2018
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) review on retail banking sector has showed that some customers are paying significantly more for their current accounts, via unarranged overdraft charges and fees….
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6/27/2018
Natixis Investment Managers has expanded its private debt capabilities with the acquisition of UK-based credit specialist, MV Credit….
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6/27/2018
Uphold, a global digital money platform, has reached an agreement to acquire New York Stock Exchange member JNK Securities….
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6/26/2018
The UK government’s Department for International Trade (DIT) is backing GMEX Group in the establishment of a new exchange trading ecosystem in Mauritius….
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6/26/2018
SIX Exchange Regulation, which monitors and enforces the exchange obligations of listed companies, sanctioned Banque Cantonale de Genève (BCGE), Geneva, for violations of the regulations on regular reporting obligations with a fine in the amount of CHF 30,000 in a sanction notice….
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6/26/2018
Forcht Bancorp has reached an agreement to purchase Watch Hill Bank in Cincinnati, Ohio, by acquiring all the outstanding shares of MW Bancorp, the holding company for Watch Hill Bank….
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6/26/2018
Dinner address by Mr Ignazio Visco, Governor of the Bank of Italy, at the Rome Roundtable 2018, Rome, 15 June 2018….
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6/26/2018
Welcome speech by Mr Luis M Linde, Governor of the Bank of Spain (until 11 June 2018), at the High-Level Seminar “Strengthening the economic governance of the euro – short-term priorities and the long-term view”, Bank of Spain, Madrid, 23 May 2018….
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6/26/2018
Speech by Prof Joachim Wuermeling, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the annual reception of the Association of Foreign Banks in Germany, Frankfurt am Main, 20 June 2018….
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6/26/2018
Speech by Mr Luis M Linde, Governor of the Bank of Spain (until 11 June 2018), at the 25th Financial Sector Meeting “Innovation, Transformation and Reputation”, organized by Deloitte, Sociedad de Tasación and ABC, Madrid, 23 May 2018….
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6/26/2018
Speech by Mr Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, at The Mansion House, London, 21 June 2018….
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6/26/2018
Keynote speech by Dr Veerathai Santiprabhob, Governor of the Bank of Thailand, at the ACMECS CEO Forum, Bangkok, 15 June 2018….
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6/26/2018
Speech by Mr Andrew G Haldane, Executive Director and Chief Economist of the Bank of England, to The Guild Society, University of Oxford, Oxford, 23 May 2018….
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6/26/2018
Speech by Mr Yannis Stournaras, Governor of the Bank of Greece, at the International Conference “The Future of Money: Trend-Alternatives-Potentials”, The American School of Classical Studies (Gennadius Library), Athens, 24 May 2018….
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6/25/2018
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has decided to demerge its wealth management and mortgage broking businesses, as part of its effort to focus more on its core banking businesses in Australia and New Zealand….
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6/25/2018
Column by Mr AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, in the Financial Times, 25 June 2018. At first glance, the skies above financial markets look sunny, notably for credit markets. Term and credit spreads as well as volatility are very low by historical standards, while valuation and asset…
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6/24/2018
Policymakers can maintain the current economic upswing beyond the short term by tackling structural reforms, rebuilding monetary and fiscal policy space to react to future threats and encouraging prompt implementation of regulatory reforms, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) writes in its…
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6/24/2018
Speech by Hyun Song Shin, Economic Adviser and Head of Research of the BIS, on the occasion of the Bank’s Annual General Meeting, Basel, 24 June 2018. Much has already been said about the impractical nature of cryptocurrencies as means of payment and the scope for fraud and other illicit activit…
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6/24/2018
BIS press release about appointment of Philip Lowe as chair of the Committee on the Global Financial System……
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6/24/2018
Speech by Mr AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, on the occasion of the Bank’s Annual General Meeting, Basel, 24 June 2018. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the presentation of the first ever BIS Annual Economic Report. The first three chapters review global developments, prospects…
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6/24/2018
BIS press release on the presentation of the Annual Economic Report 2018, 24 June 2018. Policymakers can maintain the current economic upswing beyond the short term by tackling structural reforms, rebuilding monetary and fiscal policy space to react to future threats and encouraging prompt implement…
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6/24/2018
Speech by Mr Claudio Borio, Head of the Monetary and Economic Department of the BIS, on the occasion of the Bank’s Annual General Meeting, Basel, 24 June 2018. Macroprudential frameworks have become a key new element of the post-crisis financial reforms designed to ensure financial stability. Th…
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6/22/2018
Velocity Solutions, through a subsidiary, has completed the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Akouba, a white label SaaS-based digital lending platform that enables financial institutions to underwrite loans quickly, efficiently, and profitably to small and medium-sized business (SMB) c…
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6/22/2018
MYbank, an online private commercial bank in China with a focus on SME financing, has announced the launch of the Star Plan to open up its proven AI, computing and risk management capabilities to financial institutions in China….
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6/22/2018
MetaBank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Meta Financial Group has signed an agreement to continue their relationship with Global Cash Card and will begin to support Wisely by ADP….
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6/22/2018
Indiana-based Old National Bancorp has agreed to acquire Minnesota-based KleinBank in a deal valued at around $433.8m….
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6/22/2018
Our starting point is to ask if the accumulation of official foreign exchange reserves may have unintended consequences in the form of increased private sector risk-taking. This is a topical question, given the ……
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6/22/2018
Application deadline: 5 August 2018 | Finance | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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6/21/2018
Basel Committee issues progress report on banks’ implementation of the Principles for effective risk data aggregation and reporting, 21 June 2018……
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6/21/2018
There is no consensus in the empirical literature on the direction in which U.S. monetary policy affects cross-border bank lending. We find robust evidence that the impact of the U.S. federal funds rate on cross-border ……
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6/21/2018
Beginning with the global financial crisis (2008) the correlation between crude oil prices and medium-term and forward inflation expectations increased leading to fears of their un-anchoring. Using the first principal component ……
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6/20/2018
Application deadline: 22 July 2018 | Meeting Services | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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6/20/2018
Keynote remarks by Dr Veerathai Santiprabhob, Governor of the Bank of Thailand, at the National Directors Conference 2018, organized by the Thai Institute of Directors, Bangkok, 21 June 2018….
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6/20/2018
Panel remarks by Mr Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Deputy General Manager of the BIS, at the CV Meeting of Central Bank Governors of CEMLA – Asuncion, Paraguay, 5 June 2018….
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6/19/2018
CYBG, owner of Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank, has agreed to acquire financial services brand, Virgin Money, in a deal valued d at around £1.7bn….
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6/19/2018
Finastra has acquired Malauzai, a provider of mobile and Internet banking solutions for community financial institutions….
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6/18/2018
Carolina Trust BancShares, the parent company of Carolina Trust Bank, has agreed to acquire Clover Community Bankshares and its subsidiary bank….
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6/18/2018
US-based BOK Financial has signed an agreement to acquire CoBiz Financial in a deal valued at around $1bn….
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6/18/2018
Speech by Mr Fernando Restoy, Chairman, Financial Stability Institute, Bank for International Settlements, at the Fundación Ramón Areces, Madrid, Spain, 4 June 2018….
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6/18/2018
Speech by Mr Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Congress of Actuaries, Berlin, 6 June 2018….
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6/18/2018
Speech by Mr Henry Ohlsson, Deputy Governor of Sveriges Riksbank, at Ã-rebro University, Ã-rebro, 29 May 2018….
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6/18/2018
Address by Mr Christopher Kent, Assistant Governor (Financial Markets) of the Reserve Bank of Australia, at the Australian Government Fixed Income Forum 2018, Tokyo, 6 June 2018….
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6/18/2018
Remarks by Mr William C Dudley, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at the Bank of England’s Markets Forum 2018, London, 24 May 2018….
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6/17/2018
Press Release on the pre-release of two special chapters of the Annual Economic Report of the BIS, 17 June 2018. Trust is the missing link in today’s cryptocurrencies – Cryptocurrencies’ model of generating trust limits their potential to replace conventional money, the Bank for Internationa…
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6/15/2018
Deutsche Bank has launched eVault, a secure digital repository for exchange of documents, making it the first third-party document custodian to offer solutions for the handling of secure documents for its clients….
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6/15/2018
Coinage, the company making cryptocurrency investing easier and more secure for traders and investors, announced a new mobile-friendly cryptocurrency exchange, called Coinage Exchange….
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6/15/2018
ChannelNet has announced a strategic partnership with finance technology firm White Clarke Group to offer an end-to-end financing solution to the global asset finance market….
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6/15/2018
Poland-based Alior Bank has unveiled plans to collaborate with solarisBank, Raisin and Mastercard to establish a pan-European digital bank….
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6/14/2018
Our starting point is to ask if the accumulation of official foreign exchange reserves may have unintended consequences in the form of increased private sector risk-taking. This is a topical question, given the ……
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6/14/2018
Swedish call-screening app Truecaller has acquired Indian multi-bank payments app, Chillr, for an undisclosed sum….
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6/13/2018
First Mid-Illinois Bancshares has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of SCB Bancorp….
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6/12/2018
PayStand, the B2B payment platform for the future of business, has expanded its digital platform into Canada to support domestic B2B commercial payments and deepen its global payments infrastructure….
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6/12/2018
Speech by Mr Yannis Stournaras, Governor of the Bank of Greece, at an event organised by the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) and the Athens Stock Exchange, Athens, 19 March 2018….
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6/12/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the 2018 Economic Briefing of the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, Inc. (AMCHAM), Manila, 24 April 2018….
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6/12/2018
Interview with Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, in Die Zeit, conducted by Ms Lisa Nienhaus and Mr Mark Schieritz on 16 May 2018 and published on 23 May 2018….
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6/12/2018
Speaking points by Mr MojmÃr Hampl, Vice Governor of the Czech National Bank, at the Annual Research Conference of the Central Bank of Ukraine, Kiev, 1 June 2018….
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6/12/2018
Welcome address by Ms Jessica Chew Cheng Lian, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the Launch of FSPB Professional Code for the Financial Services Industry, Kuala Lumpur, 24 May 2018….
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6/12/2018
Welcome address by Ms Jessica Chew Cheng Lian, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the Joint IFRS Foundation & MASB Regional Workshop “IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts”, Kuala Lumpur, 17 May 2018….
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6/12/2018
Keynote speech by Professor John Iannis Mourmouras, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece, at the National Bank of Romania – OMFIF Economists Meeting entitled “The state of the euro area and conditions for accession: lessons from the past, tasks for the future”, Bucharest, 22 May 2018….
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6/11/2018
Flexiti Financial has acquired $250m worth Canadian private label credit card portfolio from TD Financing Services (TDFS)….
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6/11/2018
HSBC has unveiled plans to invest $15bn-$17bn to advance growth in Asia and promote new technologies….
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6/11/2018
How do the Chinese authorities fix the centre of the renminbi’s daily trading band? To what extent do other emerging market currencies track renminbi moves against the dollar? Both questions interest policymakers, academics and market participants. ……
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6/10/2018
Speech by Professor John Iannis Mourmouras, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece, at the 2nd International Conference, organised by the Economic Chamber of Greece, Athens, 31 May 2018….
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6/10/2018
Speech by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the International Risk Management Conference, Paris, 8 June 2018….
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6/10/2018
Platform for discussion by Ms Maja Kadievska-Vojnovik, Vice-Governor of the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia, at the xCEEd Conference on Fintex, Belgrade, 22-23 May 2018….
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6/10/2018
Introduction speech by Mr Klaas Knot, President of the Netherlands Bank, at the DNB High-Level Seminar, Amsterdam, 24 May 2018….
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6/10/2018
Speech by Sir David Ramsden, Deputy Governor for Markets and Banking of the Bank of England, at the Barclays Inflation Conference, London, 7 June 2018….
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6/10/2018
Speech by Mr Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, at the Markets Forum 2018, Bloomberg Headquarters, London, 24 May 2018….
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6/08/2018
Fiserv, a global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced that VyStar Credit Union, has become the first Fiserv client to implement an enhanced mobile banking platform that includes new alerting and card control functionality for its debit card users….
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6/08/2018
Application deadline: 15 August 2018 | Banking Department | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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6/07/2018
Broadridge Financial Solutions has acquired European fund market and research firm, MackayWilliams, for an undisclosed sum….
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6/07/2018
The Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality Eleventh Annual Conference in collaboration with the BIS, Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics, London, 7-8 June 2018….
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6/06/2018
Kony, a provider of digital banking solutions, has launched new Kony DBX digital banking platform and application suite to help banks and credit unions cost-effectively accelerate their digital strategy….
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6/06/2018
The paper studies the evolution and key drivers of residential investment in 15 advanced economies since the 1970s. It also analyses how residential investment growth affects overall economic activity and the likelihood of recessions. ……
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6/06/2018
Flagstar Bank, FSB, a subsidiary of Flagstar Bancorp, has agreed to acquire Wells Fargo’s 52 retail bank branches in the US….
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6/06/2018
Remarks by Mr Daniel Mminele, Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at the annual Financial Markets Department cocktail function, Johannesburg, 10 May 2018….
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6/06/2018
Opening remarks by Mr François Groepe, Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at the launch of the Project Khokha report, Johannesburg, 5 June 2018….
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6/06/2018
Keynote address by Mr Fabio Panetta, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy, at the SUERF/BAFFI CAREFIN Centre Conference “Do we need central bank digital currencies? Economics, technology and psychology”, Bocconi University, Milan, 7 June 2018….
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6/06/2018
Speech by Ms Anita Angelovska Bezhoska, Governor of the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia, at the NBRM’s 11th Conference on Payments and Market Infrastructures “Let’s Get Digital”, Ohrid, 6-8 June 2018….
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6/06/2018
Speech by Mr Lars Rohde, Governor of the National Bank of Denmark, at the VL Summit, Copenhagen, 7 June 2018….
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6/05/2018
Citi announced that it is the first corporate bank to enroll as a Payment Initiation Service Provider (PISP) on the UK Open Banking Directory….
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6/05/2018
The UK government has sold a 7.7% stake in Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) for £2.5bn, as part of its efforts to restore its private ownership….
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6/05/2018
EP Wealth Advisors, an independent registered investment advisor, has acquired San Diego-based Donnelly Wealth Advisors (DWA)….
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6/05/2018
Mid Atlantic Capital Group has completed its previously announced strategic transaction with Parthenon Capital Partners and Waterfall Asset Management….
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6/05/2018
Keynote address by Dr Veerathai Santiprabhob, Governor of the Bank of Thailand, at the Nomura Investment Forum Asia 2018, Singapore, 5 June 2018….
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6/05/2018
Speech by Mr Erkki Liikanen, Governor of the Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 10 April 2018….
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6/05/2018
Speech by Dr Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, at the annual reception of the Minister President of the German state of Hesse, Brussels, 5 June 2018….
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6/05/2018
Opening remarks by Ms Anita Angelovska-Bezoska, Governor of the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia, at the NBRM Workshop on Fintech, Skopje, 28 May 2018….
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6/05/2018
Speech by Ms Anita Angelovska-Bezoska, Governor of the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia, at the Ministerial Dialogue on the Economic Reform Programmes of the Candidate Countries, Brussels, 25 May 2018….
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6/05/2018
Speech by Sir Jon Cunliffe, Deputy Governor for Financial Stability of the Bank of England, at the FIA International Derivatives Expo 2018, London, 5 June 2018….
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6/05/2018
Opening speech by Mr Vitas Vasiliauskas, Governor of the Bank of Lithuania, at the China Financial Summit 2018, Beijing, 16 May 2018….
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6/05/2018
Opening remarks by Mr Haruhiko Kuroda, Governor of the Bank of Japan, at the 2018 BOJ-IMES Conference “Central Banking in a Changing World”, hosted by the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan, Tokyo, 30 May 2018….
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6/05/2018
Speech by Mr Haruhiko Kuroda, Governor of the Bank of Japan, at the Kisaragi-kai Meeting, Tokyo, 10 May 2018….
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6/05/2018
BIS Quarterly Review for June 2018: Over the last decade, the size and structure of the global credit default swap (CDS) market have changed markedly. With the help of the BIS derivatives statistics, we document how outstanding amounts have fallen, central clearing has risen and the composition of u…
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6/05/2018
The BIS Statistical Bulletin is published quarterly and summarises all BIS statistics in tabular form. It includes introductions to each data set and a glossary of statistical terms….
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6/04/2018
Digital payments provider Visa has launched a $100m investment program to support development of European FinTech solutions….
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6/04/2018
Keynote address by Mr B P Kanungo, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, at the NPCI National Payments Excellence Awards function, Mumbai, 29 May 2018….
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6/04/2018
Keynote address by Mr Javier Alonso, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Spain, at the 50th International Capital Market Association (ICMA), Annual Conference, Madrid, 31 May 2018….
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6/04/2018
Summary of a speech by Mr Thomas Jordan, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank, at the Award ceremony 2018, De Vigier Foundation, Solothurn, 30 May 2018….
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6/04/2018
Speech by Mr Liviu Voinea, Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Romania, at the Conference CEPS-IMF Spring 2018 Regional Economic Outlook, Brussels, 15 May 2018….
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6/04/2018
Speech by Mr Jerome H Powell, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the “350 years of Central Banking: The Past, the Present and the Future”, a Sveriges Riksbank anniversary conference sponsored by the Riksbank and the Riksdag, Stockholm, 25 May 2018….
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6/03/2018
Remarks by Mr Sylvain Leduc, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, to the Association des économistes québécois and CFA Quebec, Quebec, 31 May 2018….
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6/03/2018
Speech by Ms Lael Brainard, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Forecasters Club of New York, New York City, 31 May 2018….
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6/03/2018
Speech by Mr Juyeol Lee, Governor of the Bank of Korea, at the 2018 Bank of Korea International Conference, Seoul, 4 June 2018….
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6/01/2018
Citizens Financial Group has signed an agreement to purchase the assets of Franklin American Mortgage Company, a Tennessee-based national mortgage servicing and origination firm with a leading position among private and non-bank mortgage companies….
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6/01/2018
Application deadline: 30 June 2018 | Corporate Security | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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6/01/2018
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said it expected to place criminal cartel charges on financial institutions, including ANZ, Deutsche Bank and Citigroup Global Markets Australia….
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5/31/2018
Principal Financial Group has agreed to acquire financial technology company RobustWealth, as part of its efforts to expand its digital capabilities….
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5/31/2018
Interview with Mr VÃtor Constâncio, Vice-President of the European Central Bank, and Spiegel Online, conducted by Mr Stefan Kaiser and Mr Henning Jauernig on 22 May 2018 and published on 29 May 2018….
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5/31/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the 65th Annual Convention and General Membership Meeting of the Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines (RBAP), Davao City, 21 May 2018….
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5/30/2018
Global exchanges operator Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has agreed to acquire premier fixed income marketplace, TMC Bonds, for $685m in cash….
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5/30/2018
Speaking points by Mr MojmÃr Hampl, Vice Governor of the Czech National Bank, at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, 21 May 2018….
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5/29/2018
Old Point National Bank has selected Baker Hill NextGen for commercial lending and direct consumer lending, as well as its online loan application solution….
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5/29/2018
Deutsche Bank has launched new DB Privat- und Firmenkundenbank to serve private and commercial clients in Germany……
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5/29/2018
UK-based digital wealth management firm Moneyfarm has secured £40m funding in a series B financing round led by Allianz Asset Management….
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5/29/2018
Application deadline: 30 June 2018 | Monetary & Economic Department | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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5/29/2018
Application deadline: 31 August 2018 | Monetary & Economic Department | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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5/29/2018
Application deadline: 30 June 2018 | Corporate Facility Management | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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5/28/2018
SIA, a provider of payment infrastructure and services, has agreed to acquire First Data’s card processing businesses in parts of Central and Southeastern Europe for €375m….
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5/28/2018
Crédit Mutuel has collaborated with IBM to devise new ways of working to better serve the bank’s 12 million customers….
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5/28/2018
Dinner speech by Dr Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, at the “350 years of Central Banking: The Past, the Present and the Future” a Sveriges Riksbank anniversary conference sponsored by the…
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5/28/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the presentation of the New Generation Currency (NGC) banknotes and coins to President Rodrigo R. Duterte, Manila, 9 May 2018….
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5/28/2018
Speech by Mr Mugur Isărescu, Governor of the National Bank of Romania, at the Conference “The 39th Meeting of the Central Banks Governors’ Club of the Central Asia, Black Sea region and Balkan countries”, Bodrum, Turkey, 14 May 2018….
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5/27/2018
Speech by Ms Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, at the Biannual high-level networking seminar on economic and financial issues, organised by Danmarks Nationalbank, Copenhagen, 14 May…
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5/27/2018
Address by Mr Philip Lowe, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, to the Australia-China Relations Institute, Sydney, 23 May 2018….
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5/27/2018
Speech by Mr Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the Financial Stability Board, to the Society of Professional Economists, London, 24 May 2018….
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5/25/2018
Switzerland-based investment bank Vontobel has agreed to acquire Notenstein La Roche Private Bank from Raiffeisen Switzerland for about CHF700m ($705m)….
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5/25/2018
Panel remarks by Mr AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, at the Sveriges Riksbank’s 350th anniversary conference on “350 years of central banking: the past, the present and the future”, held at the Riksdag, Stockholm, 25 May 2018….
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5/24/2018
Closing remarks by Mr Mugur Isărescu, Governor of the National Bank of Romania, at the EUROFI High Level Seminar 2018, Bucharest, 27 April 2018….
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5/24/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at InstaPay Go Live, Manila, 23 April 2018….
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5/24/2018
Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka & Finance (MBSL) has furthered its ongoing business transformation with the deployment of Fiserv’s Signature core account processing platform and front-end teller systems….
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5/24/2018
Speech by Ms Lael Brainard, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Association of Neighborhood and Housing Development Eighth Annual Community Development Conference Build.Community.Power, New York City, 18 May 2018….
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5/24/2018
Speech by Prof Claudia Buch, Vice-President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, prepared for the 5th OECD-GFLEC Global Policy Research Symposium to Advance Financial Literacy, Paris, 18 May 2018….
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5/24/2018
Opening remarks by Mr Luis M Linde, Governor of the Bank of Spain, at the Bank of Spain-IMF High-Level Seminar “Spain – from recovery to resilience”, Madrid, 3 April 2018….
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5/23/2018
Interview with Mr AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, in Börsen-Zeitung, conducted by Mr Mark Schrörs and published online on 22 May 2018 and in print format on 23 May 2018….
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5/23/2018
Op-ed by Mr AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, published in Börsen-Zeitung under the title “Technology is no substitute for trust”, 23 May 2018….
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5/23/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the host country event “Past, Present and Future of the World Economy”, ADB Headquarters, Manila, 4 May 2018….
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5/23/2018
Speech by Mr Ed Sibley, Deputy Governor (Prudential Regulation) of the Central Bank of Ireland, at the Institute of International and European Affairs, Dublin, 16 May 2018….
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5/23/2018
Deutsche Bank Luxembourg has adopted Avaloq Banking Suite….
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5/23/2018
Independent Bank Group has agreed to acquire financial services firm Guaranty Bancorp in a deal valued at around $1bn….
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5/23/2018
Interview with Mr VÃtor Constâncio, Vice-President of the European Central Bank, and Bloomberg TV, conducted by Mr Paul Gordon on 17 May 2018….
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5/23/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the AMRO-BSP Joint Seminar on Asia’s Emergence in the New World Order: Growth, Integration and Resilience, Manila, 3 May 2018….
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5/22/2018
Keynote speech by Mr Guy Debelle, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, at the ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association) Forum (appearance via video link), Hong Kong, 15 May 2018….
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5/22/2018
IMM, a provider of eSignature solutions designed exclusively for financial institutions, has added 84 new banks to its customer roster….
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5/22/2018
Dubai-based Emirates NBD Bank has agreed to purchase Sberbank of Russia’s 99.85% stake in Turkey-based Denizbank for around TRY14.6bn ($3.2bn)….
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5/21/2018
Speaking points by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Eurofi conference, Sofia, 27 April 2018….
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5/21/2018
UK-based IHS Markit has agreed to acquire financial services solutions and data provider Ipreo from Blackstone and Goldman Sachs for $1.85bn….
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5/21/2018
Investment management solutions provider SimCorp has been selected to transform CaixaBank Asset Management’s front to back office operations….
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5/21/2018
Speech by Mr Randal K Quarles, Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the “Currencies, Capital, and Central Bank Balances: A Policy Conference”, a Hoover Institution Monetary Policy Conference, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 4…
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5/21/2018
Remarks by Mr Philip R Lane, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, at the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa, 14 May 2018….
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5/21/2018
Remarks by Mr Lawrence Schembri, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, to the Ottawa Economics Association and CFA Society Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, 16 May 2018….
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5/21/2018
Speech by Mr Randal K Quarles, Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the “Ring-Fencing the Global Banking System: The Shift towards Financial Regulatory Protectionism” Symposium, sponsored by the Harvard Law School Program on Internationa…
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5/20/2018
EMVCo has created QR Payment Mark to promote global interoperability across EMV QR Code payments….
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5/18/2018
PayPal Holdings has agreed to acquire Swedish financial technology firm, iZettle, in a deal valued at $2.2bn….
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5/18/2018
Speech by Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies, Geneva, 14 May 2018….
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5/17/2018
Panel comments by Mr Már Guðmundsson, Governor of the Central Bank of Iceland, at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Central Bank of Malta, Valletta, 4 May 2018….
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5/17/2018
Introductory statement by Mr Philip R Lane, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, at the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, Dublin, 10 May 2018….
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5/17/2018
Application deadline: 10 June 2018 | Banking | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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5/17/2018
Application deadline: 10 June 2018 | Monetary & Economic Department | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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5/17/2018
Remarks by Mr Muhammad bin Ibrahim, Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the AICB Graduation Ceremony 2018 “Bankers as Guardians of the Financial System”, Kuala Lumpur, 12 May 2018….
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5/17/2018
Statement by Mr Ignazio Visco, Governor of the Bank of Italy and Governor of the Constituency of Albania, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, San Marino and Timor-Leste, at the 97th Meeting of the Development Committee, World Bank Group, Washington DC, 21 April 2018….
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5/17/2018
Macquarie Group’s Banking and Financial Services group (BFS) has unveiled plans to combine its private bank and private wealth businesses and concentrate on high net-worth clients….
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5/17/2018
This paper proposes a simple but comprehensive structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model to examine the underlying factors of oil price dynamics. The distinguishing feature is to explicitly assess the role of expectations on future aggregate demand and oil supply in addition to the traditional r…
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5/17/2018
Multi-asset electronic trading solutions provider smartTrade Technologies has launched cryptocurrency trading on its FX Trading Platform….
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5/17/2018
Opening keynote speech by Mr Guy Debelle, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, at the CFO Forum, Sydney, 15 May 2018….
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5/16/2018
Remarks by Mr Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Deputy General Manager of the BIS, at the Joint BIS-PIIE Roundtable on “Global interdependence: rethinking international policy coordination with a special focus on macroprudential policies”, Washington DC, 18 April 2018….
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5/16/2018
The European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, has selected Openlink’s solution as its risk and treasury management system….
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5/16/2018
Remarks by Ms Sarah Breeden, Executive Director of International Banks Supervision of the Bank of England, following the second formal meeting of the Green Finance Initiative and Green Finance Committee, London, 19 March 2018….
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5/16/2018
Speech by Ms Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, at a meeting with students at Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, 14 May 2018….
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5/16/2018
Speech by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the 39th meeting of the Governor’s Club of The Central Asia, Black Sea Region and Balkan Countries, Bodrum, Turkey, 14 May 2018….
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5/16/2018
Keynote speech by Mr Olli Rehn, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Finland, at the Italian Banking Association, Rome, 14 May 2018….
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5/16/2018
Speech by Mr Alex Brazier, Executive Director for Financial Stability Strategy and Risk of the Bank of England, at the London Business School Asset Management Conference 2018, London, 26 April 2018….
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5/16/2018
How susceptible to contagion are bank deposits associated with financial inclusion? To shed light on this question, we analyze the behavior of deposits of different account sizes around three significant bank closures in the Philippines. When we look at the three events by applying difference-in-dif…
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5/16/2018
Speech by Mr Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, at the European University Institute, Florence, 11 May 2018….
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5/15/2018
Presentation by Mr Mario Marcel, Governor of the Central Bank of Chile, before the Finance Committee of the Honorable Senate of the Republic, Santiago de Chile, 2 April 2018….
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5/15/2018
Speech by Ms Lael Brainard, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Decoding Digital Currency Conference, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 15 May 2018….
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5/15/2018
Infosys Finacle, a subsidiary of Infosys, has formed India Trade Connect, a blockchain-based trade network in the country by partnering with Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, IndusInd Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, RBL Bank, South Indian Bank and Yes Bank….
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5/15/2018
Interview with Mr VÃtor Constâncio, Vice-President of the European Central Bank, in the Financial Times, conducted by Ms Claire Jones on 11 May and published on 16 May 2018….
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5/15/2018
Speech by Mr Andrew G Haldane, Executive Director and Chief Economist of the Bank of England, at the Data Analytics for Finance and Macro Research Centre, King’s Business School, London, 19 April 2018….
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5/15/2018
European payments and transactional services provider Worldline has signed an agreement to acquire SIX Payment Services (SPS) in a deal valued at around €2.3bn….
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5/15/2018
Keynote address by Ms Jessica Chew Cheng Lian, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the Global Forum on Remittances, Investment and Development 2018 Asia Pacific “Leveraging Remittances for Sustainable Development Goals: A Call to Action”, Kuala Lumpur…
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5/14/2018
Address by Mr Ong Chong Tee, Deputy Managing Director (Financial Supervision) of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, at the LIA Annual Luncheon, Singapore, 7 March 2018….
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5/14/2018
Welcome address by Mr Ignazio Visco, Governor of the Bank of Italy, at the 1st Biennial Banca d’Italia and Bocconi University Conference on Financial Stability and Regulation, Rome, 5 April 2018….
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5/14/2018
Speech by Dr Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, at the farewell reception for Dr Andreas Dombret and Carl-Ludwig Thiele, Frankfurt am Main, 4 May 2018….
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5/14/2018
Speech by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank until 30 April 2018, at the Farewell reception, Frankfurt am Main, 4 May 2018….
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5/14/2018
Speech by Mr Fabio Panetta, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy, at the Harvard Law School Bicentennial Annual Reunion of the Harvard Law School Association of Europe, Rome, 12 May 2018….
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5/14/2018
Basel Committee issues capital treatment for simple, transparent and comparable short-term securitisations, 14 May 2018……
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5/14/2018
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) issuing the “Criteria for identifying simple, transparent and comparable short-term securitisations”, May 2018….
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5/14/2018
BCBS and IOSCO issue criteria for identifying simple, transparent and comparable short-term securitisations, 14 May 2018……
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5/14/2018
Basel Committee issuing “Capital treatment for simple, transparent and comparable short-term securitisations”, May 2018….
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5/14/2018
Payments Canada, the Bank of Canada, TMX Group and Accenture have showed the feasibility of instantaneous equity settlement through distributed ledger technology (DLT)….
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5/14/2018
Nomura, Ledger and Global Advisors have partnered to explore building a secure digital asset custody solution….
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5/14/2018
Speech by Mr Marzunisham Omar, Assistant Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the 1st National Takaful Annual Convention 2018 “Takaful Agents: Striving for Excellence in a Disruptive World”, Kuala Lumpur, 14 April 2018….
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5/14/2018
Remarks by Mr Muhammad bin Ibrahim, Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the Takaful Annual Dinner and Awards 2018 “Takaful industry at crossroads: A critical examination”, Kuala Lumpur, 23 March 2018….
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5/13/2018
Opening remarks by Mr Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the Financial Stability Board, at the econoME launch event, London, 27 April 2018….
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5/13/2018
Opening remarks by Mr Abdul Rasheed Ghaffour, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the Report Launch for East Asia and Pacific Region – Global Financial Development Report 2017/2018: Bankers without Borders, Kuala Lumpur, 12 April 2018….
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5/13/2018
Address by Mr Lesetja Kganyago, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at the SwissCham Southern Africa General Assembly, Zurich, 8 May 2018….
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5/13/2018
Kx Systems’ Kx for Flow electronic trading platform has been expanded to support the trading of cryptocurrencies….
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5/13/2018
Speech by Mr Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the OECD Chief Economist Talks, Paris, 3 May 2018….
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5/11/2018
Lecture by Dr Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, at the Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim, 2 May 2018….
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5/11/2018
Speech by Mr VÃtor Constâncio, Vice-President of the European Central Bank, at the Conference on “Central Banks in Historical Perspective: What Changed After the Financial Crisis?”, organised by the Central Bank of Malta, Valletta, 4 May 2018….
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5/10/2018
Introductory remarks by Mr François Groepe, Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at the Financial Stability Forum and release of the first edition of the Financial Stability Review for 2018, South African Reserve Bank, Pretoria, 25 April 2018….
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5/10/2018
Speech by Mr Thomas Jordan, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank, at the 110th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of the Swiss National Bank, Berne, 27 April 2018….
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5/10/2018
Speech by Ms Sharon Donnery, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, at the Central Bank of Malta 50th Anniversary Conference, Valetta, 4 May 2018….
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5/10/2018
Keynote address by Mr Muhammad bin Ibrahim, Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the Malaysian E-Payments Excellence Awards (MEEA) 2018 “The resurgence of payments in a digital world”, Kuala Lumpur, 11 April 2018….
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5/10/2018
Broadridge Financial Solutions has acquired Ireland-based regulatory, marketing and sales solutions service provider, FundAssist, for an undisclosed sum….
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5/10/2018
Segall Bryant & Hamill (SBH) said that it will integrate the Westcore family of mutual funds into the Segall Bryant & Hamill Funds….
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5/10/2018
Financial services firm Wells Fargo is re imagining mobile experience with Pay with Wells Fargo….
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5/10/2018
Research findings published by the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) revealed that six in 10 (57%) senior salespeople in banking spend more than 1.5 days of their week (27% of their working week) onboarding new client organizations….
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5/10/2018
Speech by Mr David Rule, Executive Director of Insurance Supervision of the Bank of England, at Bulk Annuities – The Expanding Market, Westminster and City, London, 26 April 2018….
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5/10/2018
Speech by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank until 30 April 2018, at the Center for Financial Studies, Frankfurt am Main, 24 April 2018….
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5/09/2018
This paper argues that a measure of lending conditions – Senior Loan Officer (SLO) surveys – offers important insights into the monetary transmission mechanism. Using a Global VAR (GVAR) and SLO survey data from 16 countries, we document bank lending standards’ significant role in explaining the…
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5/09/2018
Scotiabank’s Peruvian subsidiary Scotiabank Peru has agreed to acquire a 51% controlling stake in Banco Cencosud, which offers credit cards and consumer loans in Peru, for approximately C$130m ($101m)….
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5/08/2018
BIS Press Release “Jens Weidmann to continue as Chair of the BIS Board”, 8 May 2018….
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5/08/2018
BIS Statement of commitment to the FX Global Code……
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5/08/2018
US-based investment management firm BlackRock has agreed to divest its 40% stake in DSP BlackRock Investment Managers to its joint venture partner The DSP Group….
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5/08/2018
The Depository Trust & Clearing (DTCC), a US-based post-trade financial services firm, is planning to launch first phase of settlement optimization, in a bid to remove an entire market day of settlement exposure without extinguishing a calendar day from the standard trade settlement process….
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5/08/2018
CPMI is publishing “Reducing the risk of wholesale payments fraud related to endpoint security” – May 2018. Fraud in the wholesale payment ecosystem is becoming increasingly sophisticated, and recent examples have shown that weaknesses in security at one endpoint in the ecosystem can be ex…
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5/08/2018
CPMI Press Release “Central banks urge industry wide take-up of strategy to improve wholesale payments security”, 8 May 2018….
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5/08/2018
Speech by Mr Thomas Jordan, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank, at the Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance at the University of St. Gallen (s/bf-HSG), Zurich, 3 May 2018….
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5/07/2018
We study the effects of the announcements of ECB asset purchases and of financial stability measures in the euro area on ten-year government bond term premia in eleven euro area countries in the wake of the global financial crisis and the ……
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5/07/2018
Demographic shifts, such as population ageing, have been suggested as possible explanations for the past decade’s low inflation. We exploit cross-country variation in a long panel to identify age structure effects in inflation, controlling for standard monetary factors. A robust relationship eme…
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5/07/2018
Cathay Capital, along with Bpifrance, has agreed to purchase a majority stake in French financial software firm NeoXam from BlackFin Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum….
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5/07/2018
Morningstar has launched Morningstar Direct for Wealth Management, a software solution enabling collaboration across the enterprise….
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5/07/2018
Speech by Mr Jerome H Powell, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the “Challenges for Monetary Policy and the GFSN in an Evolving Global Economy” Eighth High-Level Conference on the International Monetary System, sponsored by the International Monetary Fund…
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5/07/2018
Keynote address by Ms Caroline Abel, Governor of Central Bank of Seychelles, at the Launch of the Financial Markets Index, Eden Island, 12 April 2018….
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5/06/2018
Keynote speech by Mr VÃtor Constâncio, Vice-President of the European Central Bank, at the joint conference of the European Commission and European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, 3 May 2018….
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5/04/2018
The Global Financial Crisis opened a heated debate on whether inflation target regimes must be relaxed and allow for monetary policy to address financial stability concerns. Nonetheless, this debate has focused on the ability of the interest rate to “lean against the wind” and, more genera…
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5/04/2018
In this paper we analyze the effects of financial constraints on the exchange rate through the portfolio balance channel. Our contribution is twofold: First, we construct a tractable two-period general equilibrium model in which financial constraints inhibit capital flows. Hence, departures from the…
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5/04/2018
Recent international experience with the effective lower bound on nominal interest rates has rekindled interest in the benefits of inflation targets above 2 per cent. We evaluate whether an increase in the inflation target to 3 or 4 per cent could improve macroeconomic stability in the Canadian econ…
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5/04/2018
Contribution by Ms Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, Eurofi Newsletter, 26 April 2018….
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5/04/2018
Taaleri Wealth Management has agreed to acquire Finnish robo-advisor wealth management firm, Evervest, for an undisclosed sum….
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5/04/2018
Contribution by Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, to the 2018 Schuman Report on Europe, 28 March 2018….
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5/04/2018
Speech by Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France, at the City Week 2018, London, 24 April 2018….
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5/04/2018
Panel intervention by Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the ILF Conference on “Resolution in Europe: the unresolved questions”, Frankfurt am Main, 23 April 2018….
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5/03/2018
Opening speech by Mr Klaas Knot, President of the Netherlands Bank, at the first International Climate Risk Conference for Supervisors, Amsterdam, 6 April 2018….
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5/03/2018
Opening remarks by Mr Gent Sejko, Governor of the Bank of Albania, at the launching of the EBRD Transition Report 2017-18, Tirana, 11 April 2018….
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5/03/2018
Speech by Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France, at the presentation of the 22nd Financial Stability Review, Paris, 25 April 2018….
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5/03/2018
Contribution by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, to the EUROFI magazine, submitted on 21 March 2018 and published on 26 April 2018….
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5/03/2018
Opening speech by Mr Mugur Isărescu, Governor of the National Bank of Romania, at the Annual EBRD EU-11 Meeting, Bucharest, 13 April 2018….
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5/03/2018
Address by Mr Gent Sejko, Governor of the Bank of Albania, presenting the Annual Report 2017 to the Parliamentary Committee on Economy and Finance, Tirana, 10 April 2018….
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5/03/2018
Press release about CPMI and IOSCO issuing a report on Implementation monitoring of PFMI: follow-up Level 3 assessment of CCPs recovery planning, coverage of financial resources and liquidity stress testing, 3 May 2018….
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5/03/2018
CPMI / IOSCO is publishing “Implementation monitoring of PFMI: follow-up Level 3 assessment of CCPs recovery planning, coverage of financial resources and liquidity stress testing” – May 2018. The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organization o…
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5/03/2018
Franco-German financial group Oddo BHF has merged its Oddo BHF Asset Management (Oddo BHF AM) with Frankfurt-Trust Investment-Gesellschaft, in a bid to expand its operations in the German market….
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5/03/2018
Standard Bank has deployed RiskIQ product suite to improves digital asset management and threat protection….
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5/03/2018
FVCBankcorp (FVCB) has agreed to acquire Colombo Bank (Colombo) under a cash and stock transaction worth about $33.3m….
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5/03/2018
Remarks by Mr John A Rolle, Governor of the Central Bank of the Bahamas, at the Launch of the Get Money Smart Bahamas Financial Literacy Campaign Launch, Nassau, 1 May 2018….
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5/03/2018
Closing remarks by Mr Frank Elderson, Executive Director of the Netherlands Bank, at the first International Climate Risk Conference for Supervisors, Amsterdam, 6 April 2018….
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5/03/2018
Speech by Mr Loi M Bakani, Governor of the Bank of Papua New Guinea, at PNG’s 44th Anniversary Ball, Port Moresby, 4 November 2017….
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5/03/2018
Remarks by Mr Stephen S Poloz, Governor of the Bank of Canada, at the Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, 1 May 2018….
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5/03/2018
The BIS Triennial Central Bank Survey is the most comprehensive source of information on the size and structure of global foreign exchange (FX) and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets. Central banks and other authorities in 52 jurisdictions participated in the latest Triennial Survey, which t…
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5/03/2018
Highlights from the BIS over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives statistics for the twelve months ending in December 2017: The gross market value of outstanding OTC derivatives contracts fell to $11 trillion at end-2017, its lowest level since 2007. The share of centrally cleared credit default swaps (CDS…
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5/03/2018
The semiannual OTC derivatives statistics provide data on notional amounts outstanding and gross market values for all types of over-the-counter derivatives contracts. They are reported by large dealers in 13 countries on a worldwide consolidated basis….
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5/02/2018
Proceedings of the Bank of Morocco – CEMLA – IFC Satellite Seminar at the 61st ISI World Statistics Congress, Marrakech, Morocco, 14 July 2017….
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5/02/2018
Interview with Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, and France Info, conducted by Mr Jean Leymarie on 9 April 2018 and published on 10 April 2018….
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5/02/2018
Opening speech by Mr Mugur Isărescu, Governor of the National Bank of Romania, at the “Meeting the Challenges of Volatility” Conference, organised by the Romanian Financial Analysts’ Association (AAFBR) and Chartered Financial Analysts (CFA) Romania, Bucharest, 27 March 2018….
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5/02/2018
Presentation by Mr Ariff Ali, Acting Governor of the Reserve Bank of Fiji, to the Standing Committee on Economic Affairs, Suva, 5 April 2018….
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5/02/2018
Speech by Mr Arthur Yuen, Deputy Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, at the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) 10th Annual AML & Financial Crime Conference, Hong Kong, 23 April 2018….
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5/02/2018
Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay about $110m in fines to settle allegations of unsafe and unsound conduct in its foreign exchange trading business….
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5/02/2018
Application deadline: 30 May 2018 | Office for Asia & The Pacific | Location: Hong Kong SAR……
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5/01/2018
Belgium-based CKV Spaarbank has selected Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX to provide its regulatory reporting and financial reporting software….
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4/30/2018
Financial supervisory architecture: what has changed after the crisis?, FSI Insights No 8, April 2018….
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4/30/2018
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has posted a profit £792m in the first fiscal quarter of this year, which was triple compared to the £259m during the same period last year….
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4/30/2018
Global institutional trading network Liquidnet has announced two new enhancements to its Next Gen Algo suite, an offering of liquidity-seeking and benchmark strategies designed specifically for institutions….
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4/30/2018
Foreign currency credit continued to grow during 2017, with US dollar credit rising by 8% to $11.4 trillion and euro credit by 10% to €3.0 trillion. US dollar credit to emerging market economies (EMEs) rose by 10% in the year to end-2017, led by strong issuance of international debt securities, wh…
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4/29/2018
StarCapital, a subsidiary of Bellevue Group, is planning acquire Mars Asset Management, a Germany-based company….
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4/27/2018
Introductory statement by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the IIF International Capital Markets and Emerging Markets Roundtable, Washington DC, 20 April 2018….
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4/27/2018
We estimate a panel Bayesian vector autoregression model for a cross-section of seven advanced European economies and produce out-of-sample forecasts of GDP conditionally on observed developments of interest rates and credit. We show that, by using a smooth transition version of the model and allowi…
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4/27/2018
Application deadline: 27 May 2018 | Banking IT | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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4/26/2018
Barclays and PayPal have joined forces to help customers enhance their digital payments….
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4/26/2018
Swiss fintech firm Avaloq has purchased a 10% interest in blockchain and crypto-currency specialist, Metaco, for an undisclosed sum….
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4/26/2018
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has agreed to create a new partnership with the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) to facilitate financial innovation and banking supervision….
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4/26/2018
Speech by Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the CEPII 40th Anniversary Conference, Paris, 12 April 2018….
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4/25/2018
Opening remarks by Mr François Groepe, Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at the Inaugural Intergovernmental Fintech Outreach Workshop, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, 19 April 2018….
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4/25/2018
Keynote speech by Mr William Coen, Secretary General of the Basel Committee, at the ISDA Annual General Meeting, Miami, 25 April 2018….
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4/25/2018
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has combined its existing front, dealing, middle and back office services into one plug-and-play solution that lets clients focus on their main activities: asset selection, performances and distribution to their clients….
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4/25/2018
Address by Mr Christopher Kent, Assistant Governor (Financial Markets) of the Reserve Bank of Australia, to the Housing Industry Association Breakfast, Sydney, 24 April 2018….
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4/25/2018
Speech by Mr Alex Brazier, Executive Director for Financial Stability Strategy and Risk of the Bank of England, at the Future of Finance Conference, Imperial College Business School, London, 19 April 2018….
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4/25/2018
Introductory remarks by Mr Ong Chong Tee, Deputy Managing Director (Financial Supervision) of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, at the German-Singaporean Financial Forum, Singapore, 16 April 2018….
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4/25/2018
Speech by Mr Martin Flodén, Deputy Governor of the Sveriges Riksbank, at the Swedish House of Finance, Stockholm, 13 April 2018….
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4/24/2018
Speech by Mr Fabio Panetta, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy, at the conference “A Future for Europe”, held in memory of Giacomo Vaciago and organised by the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and the Associazione per lo Sviluppo degli Studi di Banca e Borsa (ASSBB), Milan, 6 April…
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4/24/2018
Keynote address by Mr Michael Held, Executive Vice President of the Legal Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at the 1LoD Summit, New York City, 17 April 2018….
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4/24/2018
Clearstream, a provider of post-trade services, has agreed to acquire Swisscanto Funds Centre Swisscanto Funds Centre (SFCL) in London from Zürcher Kantonalbank for an undisclosed sum….
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4/24/2018
Wealthify’s online investment service is now available on Starling’s in-app ‘Marketplace’, which will give users easy access to a range of digital financial services on their mobile device….
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4/24/2018
Speech by Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France, at the Paris Europlace International Financial Forum, New York City, 18 April 2018….
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4/24/2018
Concluding remarks by Mr Masayoshi Amamiya, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan, at the IMF-JFSA-BOJ Conference on FinTech, Tokyo, 16 April 2018….
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4/24/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the 39th National Conference of Employers “The Future is Now: Survive, Compete and Grow Amidst Radical Changes in Labor and Employment Policies”, Manila, 18 April 201…
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4/23/2018
Keynote dinner speech by Mr Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the NABE (National Association for Business Economics) International Symposium “Global Recovery: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, Madrid, 16 April 2018….
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4/23/2018
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has imposed additional fraud charges on Centra Tech over allegations related to its $32m initial coin offering (ICO) scheme….
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4/23/2018
The Basel Committee is publishing the fourteenth progress report on adoption of the Basel regulatory framework, April 2018….
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4/23/2018
Press release about the Basel Committee urging full, timely and consistent implementation of Basel III post-crisis reforms (23 April 2018). Today the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) issued the Fourteenth progress report on adoption of the Basel regulatory framework. The report sets out…
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4/23/2018
meem, the digital retail banking services unit of Gulf International Bank (GIB), has been launched in the Kingdom of Bahrain….
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4/23/2018
Speech by Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France, at The Economic Club of New York, New York City, 18 April 2018….
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4/23/2018
Speech by Ms Lael Brainard, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Global Finance Forum, Washington DC, 19 April 2018….
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4/23/2018
Remarks by Mr Kevin Stiroh, Executive Vice President of the Financial Institution Supervision Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at the Community Bankers Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, 18 April 2018….
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4/23/2018
Remarks by Mr Richard Dzina, Executive Vice President of the Financial Services Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at the Community Bankers Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, 18 April 2018….
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4/23/2018
Remarks by Mr William C Dudley, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at the Community Bankers Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, 18 April 2018….
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4/23/2018
Speech by Ms Lael Brainard, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Baltimore Community Development Gathering, Baltimore, Maryland, 17 April 2018….
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4/23/2018
International banking activity gained momentum in Q4 2017, with cross-border claims increasing by $123 billion between end-September and end-December 2017 to $29 trillion. Intragroup activity led the increase, while credit to non-bank borrowers rose for the fourth consecutive quarter. Cross-border l…
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4/22/2018
Speech (via videolink from Bank of England) by Mr Ben Broadbent, Deputy Governor for Monetary Policy of the Bank of England, Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney, 12 April 2018….
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4/22/2018
Digital Asset, a provider of distributed ledger technology for the financial services industry, has released a new developer program for its enterprise smart contract language, DAML….
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4/22/2018
Introductory remarks by Mr Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, 11 April 2018….
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4/22/2018
Remarks by Mr William C Dudley, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at Lehman College, Bronx, New York City, 18 April 2018….
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4/22/2018
Keynote speech by Professor John Iannis Mourmouras, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece, at a conference jointly organised by the Society of International Economic Law and the European University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 14 April 2018….
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4/19/2018
Speech by Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France, at The ECB and Its Watchers XIX Conference, organised by the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability, Frankfurt am Main, 14 March 2018….
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4/19/2018
Application deadline: 20 May 2018 | Financial Stability Institute | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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4/19/2018
Speech by Mr Yannis Stournaras, Governor of the Bank of Greece, at the Delphi Economic Forum, Athens, 3 March 2018….
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4/19/2018
Remarks by Mr William C Dudley, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at the US Chamber of Commerce, Washington DC, 26 March 2018….
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4/19/2018
FICO has unveiled a range of new retail banking solutions that enable lenders to manage the credit lifecycle in a smarter, faster and simpler way….
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4/19/2018
Speech by Mr N S Vishwanathan, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, at the National Institute of Bank Management, Pune, 18 April 2018….
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4/19/2018
Remarks by Mr Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the Financial Stability Board, at the International Climate Risk Conference for Supervisors, The Netherlands Bank, Amsterdam, 6 April 2018….
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4/19/2018
Speech by Dr Johannes Beermann, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the German-Singaporean Financial Forum (GSFF) “The Future of Banking – Evolution, Revolution or Big Bang”, Management University, Singapore, 16 April 2018….
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4/19/2018
BlackRock has signed an agreement to acquire US private credit manager, Tennenbaum Capital Partners (TCP), for an undisclosed sum….
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4/19/2018
Speech by Ms Cecilia Skingsley, Deputy Governor of the Sveriges Riksbank, at Handelsbanken, Södertälje, 26 March 2018….
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4/18/2018
Speech by Mr Ed Sibley, Deputy Governor (Prudential Regulation) of the Central Bank of Ireland, to the DCU Brexit Institute, Dublin, 12 April 2018….
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4/18/2018
Speech by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the 2018 Europe – US Symposium of the Harvard Law School Program on International Financial Systems, Armonk, New York, 11 April 2018….
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4/18/2018
Speech by Dr Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, upon acceptance of the Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria, Vienna, 26 March 2018….
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4/18/2018
Speech by Mr Randal K Quarles, Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the HOPE Global Forums Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, 26 March 2018….
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4/18/2018
Colt Technology Services has launched its new ultra low latency service connecting the Australia Securities Exchange (ASX) and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)….
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4/18/2018
Lloyds Banking Group is planning to cut up to 305 jobs and shut down 49 branches in the UK, as part of its efforts to advance its digital services….
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4/18/2018
Speech by Ms Andréa M Maechler, Member of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank, at the Money Market Event, Zurich, 5 April 2018….
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4/18/2018
Speech by Ms Lael Brainard, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Center for Global Economy and Business, Stern School of Business, New York University, New York City, 3 April 2018….
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4/18/2018
Speech by Mr Jan Smets, Governor of the National Bank of Belgium, at the 7th Annual Research Conference “Around a Decade After the Crisis: Heading to the New Global Cycle and Monetary Policy Normalization”, National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia, Ohrid, 13 April 2018….
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4/18/2018
Opening keynote by Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France, at the International climate risk conference for supervisors, Amsterdam, 6 April 2018….
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4/18/2018
Opening speech by Mr Dimitar Bogov, Governor of the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia, at the 7th Annual Research Conference: Around a Decade after the Crisis: Heading to the New Global Cycle and Monetary Policy Normalization, Ohrid, 12 April 2018….
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4/18/2018
Statement by Prof Claudia Buch, Deputy President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, prepared for the panel discussion at the Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII) 40th Anniversary Conference, Paris, 12 April 2018….
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4/17/2018
Speech by Dr John McDermott, Assistant Governor and Head of Economics of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, at the Reserve Bank of Australia conference on central bank frameworks, Sydney, 12 April 2018….
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4/17/2018
Modeling nominal interest rates requires their effective lower bound (ELB) to be taken into account. We propose a flexible time series approach that includes a “shadow rate” – a notional rate identical to the actual nominal rate except when the ELB binds. We apply this approach to a trend-…
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4/17/2018
Wealth manager FCI Advisors is implementing InvestCloud’s digital platform to digitize client engagement….
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4/17/2018
Barclays UK has created a new venture unit to develop new business lines and promote innovation….
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4/17/2018
Speech by Mr Jan Smets, Governor of the National Bank of Belgium, at the EACB Regulatory Debate, Brussels, 20 March 2018….
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4/17/2018
Speech by Prof Joachim Wuermeling, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the Money Marketeers of New York University, New York City, 29 March 2018….
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4/17/2018
Panel contribution by Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the 29th edition of the workshop “The Outlook for the Economy and Finance”, “Villa d’Este”, Cernobbio, 6 April 2018….
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4/17/2018
Address by Mr Guy Debelle, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, at the RBA Conference 2018, Sydney, 12 April 2018….
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4/17/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the Chamber of Thrift Banks Annual Convention, Makati City, 10 April 2018….
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4/16/2018
Application deadline: 13 May 2018 | Finance | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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4/16/2018
4/16/2018
The Sustainability | Finance | Real Economies fund, also known as the SFRE Fund (pronounced Sapphire), has invested more than £6m in Unity Trust Bank….
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4/16/2018
Speech by Mr Ã’ystein Olsen, Governor of Norges Bank (Central Bank of Norway), at the Finance Norway’s Capital Markets Day 2018, Oslo, 6 April 2018….
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4/16/2018
Text of the Finch Lecture by Mr Andrew G Haldane, Executive Director and Chief Economist of the Bank of England, at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 10 April 2018….
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4/16/2018
Application deadline: 13 May 2018 | Office for Asia & The Pacific | Location: Hong Kong SAR……
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4/15/2018
Speaking points by Mr MojmÃr Hampl, Vice Governor of the Czech National Bank, at the third Annual SSGA-OMFIF Roundtable, London, 10 April 2018….
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4/15/2018
Address by Mr Philip Lowe, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, to the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce (WA), Perth, 11 April 2018….
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4/15/2018
Exegy has launched a fully managed FX market data and order execution solution….
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4/15/2018
Goldman Sachs Bank USA (GS Bank) has acquired personal finance app, Clarity Money, for an undisclosed sum….
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4/15/2018
Speech by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the Japanese Bankers Association, Tokyo, 29 March 2018….
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4/12/2018
Spanish banking group Banco Santander has introduced a new blockchain-based international payments service for the retail customers in Spain, the UK, Brazil and Poland….
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4/12/2018
Global payments provider Paysafe has agreed to acquire iPayment, a US-based payment and processing solutions provider for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB)….
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4/12/2018
BNP Paribas Group has agreed to acquire core banking operations of Raiffeisen Bank Polska (RBPL) from Raiffeisen Bank International for PLN3.2bn ($945m)….
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4/12/2018
Speech by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the FGV/IBRE, Rio de Janeiro, 5 April 2018….
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4/12/2018
BIS Papers No 97 – Financial spillovers, spillbacks, and the scope for international macroprudential policy coordination, April 2018. This paper discusses the scope for international macroprudential policy coordination in a financially integrated world economy. It first reviews the transmission chan…
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4/11/2018
Digital banking services provider Fidor has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with International Finance Corporation (IFC) to find opportunities to expand digital banking services in Africa and Latin America to boost financial inclusion….
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4/10/2018
Application deadline: 7 May 2018 | Information Management Services | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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4/10/2018
Press release about CPMI and IOSCO issuing guidance on supervisory stress testing of central counterparties (CCPs)”, 10 April 2018….
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4/10/2018
Framework for supervisory stress testing of central counterparties (CCPs) – April 2018 – In the years following the financial crisis, central counterparties (CCPs) have become increasingly global, interconnected and critical segments of the financial system. The rise and pace of central clearing acc…
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4/10/2018
Temenos T24 Core Banking has been selected by Telia Finance, an independent company acting as a finance engine for Telia Company, a telco with a Nordic/Baltic footprint….
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4/10/2018
Speech by Mr Marzunisham Omar, Assistant Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the Forum on “Waqf: An Economic Perspective”, Kuala Lumpur, 9 April 2018….
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4/10/2018
Remarks by Ms Jessica Chew Cheng Lian, Assistant Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia, at the Launch of Project Greenback 2.0 Kota Kinabalu, Kota Kinabalu, 4 March 2018….
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4/10/2018
Francisco Partners-led investor group has agreed to acquire payments technology firm Verifone Systems for around $3.4bn….
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4/10/2018
The identification and measurement of non-performing assets: a cross-country comparison, FSI Insights No 7, April 2018….
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4/09/2018
B3 has agreed to provide technology services to Argentina’s stock exchange, Bolsas y Mercados Argentinos (BYMA)….
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4/09/2018
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has imposed a fine of $15m on three investment advisers over breaching fiduciary duties and raising improper fees from the clients……
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4/09/2018
Introductory remarks by Mr VÃtor Constâncio, Vice-President of the European Central Bank, to the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament, Brussels, 9 April 2018….
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4/09/2018
Closing remarks by Mr Luigi Federico Signorini, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy, at the workshop on “Harnessing Big Data & Machine Learning Technologies for Central Banks”, Bank of Italy, Rome, 27 March 2018….
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4/09/2018
Press release about CPMI and IOSCO issuing technical guidance on Harmonisation of critical OTC derivatives data elements (other than UTI and UPI) – 9 April 2018….
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4/09/2018
Harmonisation of critical OTC derivatives data elements (other than UTI and UPI) – Technical guidance – April 2018. This report is one part of the CPMI-IOSCO Harmonisation Group’s response to its mandate. It focuses on the definition, format and allowable values of critical data elements, other…
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4/08/2018
Fiserv said that it will help Carter Bank & Trust of Martinsville, Virginia, to modernize its operations, diversify income and lending opportunities, and attract new customers….
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4/08/2018
Opening remarks by Mr Fabio Panetta, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy, at the workshop on “Harnessing Big Data & Machine Learning Technologies for Central Banks”, Bank of Italy, Rome, 26 March 2018….
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4/06/2018
We explore the role of interest rates in monetary policy transmission in China in the context of its multiple instrument setting. In doing so, we construct a new series of monetary policy surprises using information from high frequency Chinese financial market data around major monetary policy annou…
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4/06/2018
Global exchanges operator Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has signed an agreement to acquire Chicago Stock Exchange (CHX) for an undisclosed sum….
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4/06/2018
Application deadline: 6 May 2018 | Monetary & Economic Department | Location: Mexico City……
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4/05/2018
LSEG Technology, a provider of high-performance technology including broker, exchange, market data, risk management, surveillance, clearing and settlement products, announced the go-live rollout of the HKEX Orion Central Gateway (OCG)….
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4/05/2018
Opening address by Ms Jessica Chew Cheng Lian, Assistant Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia, at the Asian Banker Digital Finance Convention 2018, Kuala Lumpur, 22 March 2018….
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4/04/2018
TreasuryXpress has been selected by public and multi-disciplinary holding firm DoÄŸan Åžirketler Grubu to achieve comprehensive bank connectivity and visibility….
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4/04/2018
Denmark-based fintech specialist Saxo Bank has introduced new professional grade trading platform for active traders and institutional clients….
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4/04/2018
This paper studies the joint dynamics of real-time U.S. inflation and average inflation predictions of the Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF) based on sample ranging from 1968Q4 to 2017Q2. The joint data generating process (DGP) comprises an unobserved components (UC) model of inflation and a…
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4/03/2018
Irish financial services firm IFG Group has abandoned its plans to divest one its core business units, Saunderson House….
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4/03/2018
Crédit Agricole subsidiary Crédit Agricole Payment Services (CAPS) and digital finance technology company Wirecard have signed a contract to begin their next generation digital partnership in payment services….
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4/03/2018
Early intervention regimes for weak banks, FSI Insights No 6, April 2018….
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4/02/2018
First Financial Bancorp has completed the previously announced merger with MainSource Financial Group….
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4/02/2018
UK-based Barclays Capital has signed an agreement with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) to pay $2bn to settle claims related to its residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS)….
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4/01/2018
Bank of America plans to open 600 new Merrill Edge investment centers within its expanding coast-to-coast financial center footprint, bringing its total to 2,800 by 2020….
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3/29/2018
We investigate the role of firms’ credit risk in the onshore transmission of international bond market conditions. We show that reductions in the global price of risk, measured by the excess bond premium, encourage more international bond borrowing by smaller and younger firms. Due to informatio…
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3/29/2018
Application deadline: 22 April 2018 | Banking | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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3/29/2018
CME Group has signed an agreement to acquire UK financial technology firm NEX Group for around £3.9bn….
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3/29/2018
The international regulatory framework has been significantly strengthened since the global financial crisis to promote a more resilient banking sector. The Basel III framework sets higher minimum requirements for loss absorption, places greater emphasis on higher-quality capital and captures a broa…
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3/28/2018
We study the impact of bank credit supply on firm output and productivity. By exploiting a matched firm-bank database which covers all the credit relationships of Italian corporations over more than a decade, we measure idiosyncratic supply-side shocks to firms’ credit availability. We use our d…
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3/28/2018
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) co-hosted a research conference on “The price, real and financial effects of exchange rates ” on 28-29 August 2017 in Hong Kong. The event was the wrap-up conference of a research programme of the BIS Represe…
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3/28/2018
BCBS Working Papers No 32, March 2018. The aim of this paper is to review the existing literature on the (sectoral) countercyclical capital buffer. Since the literature directly addressing this topic is relatively scarce, we also include relevant papers that are only indirectly related. We draw ins…
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3/28/2018
LINE and Nomura have signed memorandum of understanding (MOU) to consider financial business alliance, focused on the securities business….
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3/28/2018
Accenture has launched a new cloud-based data analytics utility to help US banks enhance and manage their risk-management and other functions….
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3/28/2018
Abanca Corporación Bancaria has agreed to acquire Deutsche Bank’s private and commercial banking (PCB) business in Portugal….
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3/27/2018
Keynote speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the Money Market Association of the Philippines, Inc. (MART) MART First General Assembly, Makati City, 22 March 2018….
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3/27/2018
Original quotes from interview with Mr Claudio Borio, Head of the Monetary and Economic Department of the BIS, with Market News International conducted by Mr Christian Vits and published on 23 March 2018….
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3/27/2018
Speaking notes by Mr Salvatore Rossi, Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy and President of the Institute for the Supervision of Insurance (IVASS), at the 2018 Conference on “New Frontiers in Banking: from Corporate Governance to Risk Management”, Faculty of Economics, La Sapienza U…
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3/27/2018
Spain-based Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) has introduced a new global and borderless account, Denizen, for expat banking….
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3/27/2018
We test the risk taking channel of exchange rate appreciations using firm level data from private and public firms in ten Asian emerging markets during 2002-2015. Since foreign currency (FX) debt at the firm level is not observed for the Asian economies, we approximate the FX debt of a given firm by…
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3/27/2018
Euronext has completed the acquisition of 100% of the shares and voting rights of The Irish Stock Exchange, after securing regulatory approvals….
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3/26/2018
Interview with AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, conducted by Vikram Khanna from the Business Times and published on 24 March 2018……
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3/26/2018
Speech by Mr Ã’ystein Olsen, Governor of Norges Bank (Central Bank of Norway), at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC, 22 March 2018….
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3/26/2018
Address by Mr Gent Sejko, Governor of the Bank of Albania, at the opening ceremony of the Money Week 12-18 March 2018, Tirana, 12 March 2018….
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3/26/2018
Remarks by Ms Carolyn Wilkins, Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, at the Rotman School of Management conference “Are We Ready For the Next Financial Crisis?”, Toronto, Ontario, 22 March 2018….
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3/26/2018
Speech by Sir David Ramsden, Deputy Governor for Markets and Banking of the Bank of England, at the HMT’s International Fintech Conference, London, 22 March 2018….
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3/26/2018
Private equity investor Equistone Partners Europe has agreed to purchase a majority stake in UK-based Small World Financial Services from FPE Capital and MMC Ventures for an undisclosed sum….
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3/26/2018
Speech by Mr Stefan Ingves, Governor of the Sveriges Riksbank and Chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, to the Expert Group on Public Economics, Stockholm, 5 March 2018….
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3/26/2018
Speech by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, to the Schweizerisch-Deutscher Wirtschaftsclub, Frankfurt am Main, 19 March 2018….
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3/25/2018
Opening address by Mr Ong Chong Tee, Deputy Managing Director (Financial Supervision) of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, at the 13th Asia-Pacific High Level Meeting on Banking Supervision, Singapore, 28 February 2018….
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3/25/2018
Citi announced it will launch new mobile capabilities on the Citi Mobile App for iPhone to serve the full spectrum of client needs requirements across the US….
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3/23/2018
Speech by Fernando Restoy, Chairman, Financial Stability Institute, Bank for International Settlements, at the IADI-ERC International Conference: “Resolution and deposit guarantee schemes in Europe: incomplete processes and uncertain outcomes”, Naples, Italy, 23 March 2018….
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3/23/2018
Historically, sovereign debt in local currency has been considered safer than debt in foreign currency. Yet the literature offers scant theoretical or empirical guidance as to why such a gap exists, or why it appears to have slowly and steadily diminished for all regions over the past two decades, a…
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3/23/2018
Press release about BCBS publishing an outline of discussions at its meeting on 15-16 March 2018 in Basel and announcing it will publish summaries of each meeting in future (23 March 2018)……
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3/22/2018
The UK Government has unveiled a new fintech sector strategy at the second International Fintech Conference in London….
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3/22/2018
Press release about BCBS issuing “Revisions to the minimum capital requirements for market risk – consultative document” (22 March 2018)……
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3/22/2018
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has received a number of interpretation questions related to the Standardised Approach for measuring counterparty credit risk (SA-CCR), as published in March 2014 (and revised in April 2014). This document presents a set of frequently asked questions that r…
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3/22/2018
In order to address the issues with the standard that the Committee has identified, this consultative document proposes a number of revisions to the standard. It also sets out the Committee’s proposals for a simplified alternative to the revised standardised approach to market risk, which take i…
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3/22/2018
Investment research technology firm Visible Alpha has announced HSBC as a new investor….
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3/22/2018
Speech by Mr Andrew G Haldane, Executive Director and Chief Economist of the Bank of England, at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), London, 6 March 2018….
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3/22/2018
Speech by Mr Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the Financial Stability Board, to the inaugural Scottish Economics Conference, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, 2 March 2018….
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3/22/2018
The following technical amendment to the rules text is related to additional Pillar 3 disclosure requirements for those jurisdictions implementing an expected credit loss (ECL) accounting model as well as for those adopting transitional arrangements for the regulatory treatment of accounting provisi…
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3/22/2018
Since the eurozone crisis, there has been a stark separation between European banks and Japanese banks in their dollar uses and sources. We show that these shifts have implications for the price of dollar funding. We document a “Japan Repo Premium.” ……
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3/21/2018
Speech by Mr Lars Rohde, Governor of the National Bank of Denmark, at the National Asset-Liability Management Europe, Copenhagen, 1 March 2018….
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3/21/2018
Zimbabwe-based Steward Bank has selected NetGuardians’ software in its fight against cyber-fraud….
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3/21/2018
Virgin Money has agreed to establish a joint venture (JV) with Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI), the investment arm of Standard Life Aberdeen, to provide asset-management services to its customers….
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3/21/2018
Keynote speech by Mr Klaas Knot, President of the Netherlands Bank, at the Bundesbank Symposium “Banking Supervision in dialogue”, Frankfurt am Main, 7 March 2018….
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3/21/2018
Speech by Ms Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, at the 9th Annual EFR Stakeholder Round Table on “Financial Fragmentation or Integration”, Brussels, 22 March 2018….
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3/21/2018
Keynote speech by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the AIMA Global Policy and Regulatory Forum, Dublin, 20 March 2018….
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3/21/2018
Interview with Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, conducted by Mr Balazs Koranyi on 14 March 2018 and published on 16 March 2018….
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3/21/2018
Application deadline: 22 April 2018 | General Secretariat / Finance | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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3/21/2018
Introductory remarks by Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at a roundtable organised by FinLeap, Berlin, 14 March 2018….
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3/21/2018
Speech by Mr Philip R Lane, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, to the Institute for International and European Affairs (IIEA), Dublin, 9 March 2018….
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3/20/2018
Speech by Mr Goushi Kataoka, Member of the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan, at a meeting with business leaders, Okayama, 1 March 2018….
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3/20/2018
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has become the first bank in the country to launch an Application Programming Interface (API) developer portal….
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3/20/2018
Speech by Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, at Money20/20, Singapore, 15 March 2018….
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3/20/2018
Spain-based Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) has launches its invisible payments strategy….
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3/20/2018
Opening remarks by Dr Veerathai Santiprabhob, Governor of the Bank of Thailand, at the Bank of Thailand’s Policy Direction on FinTech Development Bangkok FinTech Fair 2018 “SME and Consumer Financial Solutions”, Bangkok, 19 March 2018….
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3/20/2018
Speech by Mr Hiroshi Nakaso, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan, at the Dinner meeting hosted by Deutsche Bundesbank Regional Office in Berlin and Brandenburg, Berlin, 9 January 2018….
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3/20/2018
Interview with Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, and BFM Business TV, conducted by Mr Stéphane Soumier on 12 March 2018….
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3/20/2018
Speech by Ms Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, at a Lecture at the Florence School of Banking and Finance, Florence, 15 March 2018….
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3/20/2018
Speech by Ms Lael Brainard, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Money Marketeers of New York University, New York City, 6 March 2018….
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3/20/2018
Speech by Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Finanzmarktklausur of the CDU Wirtschaftsrat, Berlin, 14 March 2018….
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3/20/2018
Address by Mr Guy Debelle, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, at the Financial Risk Day 2018, Sydney, 16 March 2018….
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3/20/2018
Address by Mr Christopher Kent, Assistant Governor (Financial Markets) of the Reserve Bank of Australia, to the Debt Capital Markets Summit, Sydney, 14 March 2018….
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3/19/2018
Speech by Mr Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the The ECB and Its Watchers XIX Conference, organised by the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability, Frankfurt am Main, 14 March 2018….
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3/19/2018
Finantix, which provides enterprise solutions in wealthtech, insurtech and regtech, has acquired smartfolios, a quant enabled advisory and investment platform offering investors access to superior investment portfolios and strategies….
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3/19/2018
Denmark-based fintech specialist Saxo Bank has collaborated with Hong Kong-based Valuable Capital Group to provide investment services for the global clients….
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3/19/2018
Address by Mr Lesetja Kganyago, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at the National Asset and Liability Management Conference, London, 2 March 2018….
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3/19/2018
Welcome address by Mr Luigi Federico Signorini, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy, at the Bank of Italy – CEPR Conference, Centre “Carlo Azeglio Ciampi”, Rome, 15 March 2018….
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3/19/2018
Speech by Ms Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, at the first meeting of the Euro Cyber Resilience Board for pan-European Financial Infrastructures, Frankfurt am Main, 9 March 2018….
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3/19/2018
Press release about new members joining the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (19 March 2018)……
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3/19/2018
Speech by Mr Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, at The ECB and Its Watchers XIX Conference, organised by the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability, Frankfurt am Main, 14 March 2018….
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3/18/2018
Interview with Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, in Luxemburger Wort, conducted by Mr Pierre Sorlut and Ms Barbara Tasch on 8 March and published on 14 March 2018….
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3/18/2018
Address by Mr Luis M Linde, Governor of the Bank of Spain, at the Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Madrid, 5 March 2018….
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3/18/2018
The Bank of Lithuania is inviting software developers from Lithuania and across the world to submit their proposals for the development of LBChain, a service-based blockchain platform….
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3/18/2018
Inaugural Lecture by Dr Urjit R Patel, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, at the Centre for Law & Economics, Centre for Banking & Financial Laws Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, 14 March 2018….
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3/18/2018
Remarks by Mr Stephen S Poloz, Governor of the Bank of Canada, at the Central Banking Awards 2018, London, 1 March 2018….
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3/16/2018
Singapore-based OCBC Bank has established an artificial intelligence (AI) unit, as part of its efforts to advance the use of AI across banking services….
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3/16/2018
Press release about announcing the “20th International Conference of Banking Supervisors to be held in the United Arab Emirates” (16 March 2018)……
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3/16/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the Shareholders’ Association of the Philippines (SharePHIL) General Membership Meeting and Cryptocurrency “The Truth & The Myth Forum”, Makati City, 12 March…
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3/15/2018
Remarks by Mr Stephen S Poloz, Governor of the Bank of Canada, at the Chancellor David Dodge Lecture in Public Finance 2018, Kingston, Ontario, 13 March 2018….
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3/15/2018
Introductory remarks by Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the first meeting of the Euro Cyber Resilience Board for pan-European Financial Infrastructures, Frankfurt am Main, 9 March 2018….
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3/15/2018
Address by Ms Michele Bullock, Assistant Governor (Financial System) of the Reserve Bank of Australia, to Seamless Payments 2018, Sydney, 13 March 2018….
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3/15/2018
Baton Systems’ payments solution is now available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace and Oracle Digital Innovation Platform for Open Banking for banks and financial institutions….
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3/15/2018
Yolt is now officially connected three banks through Open Banking APIs: RBS, Natwest, and Ulster….
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3/15/2018
Private equity firm Nordic Capital has agreed to acquire European online payments provider, Trustly, for an undisclosed sum….
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3/15/2018
Application deadline: 8 April 2018 | Corporate Security | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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3/15/2018
Speech by Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the 2018 US Monetary Policy Forum, New York City, 23 February 2018….
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3/14/2018
Seventh BIS Research Network meeting on “Pushing the frontier of central banks’ macro modelling”, Basel, 8-9 March 2018….
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3/14/2018
Merchant acquirer and omnichannel payment provider Payvision has completed the sale of 75% stake to ING Group….
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3/14/2018
Opening remarks by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the “Local Currency Bond Markets” Conference, Pretoria, 8 March 2018….
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3/14/2018
After the recent crisis, a reduction was observed in global current account (flow imbalances). Still, global disequilibria as measured in terms of countries’ net foreign assets (stock imbalances), kept increasing. This paper studies whether ……
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3/14/2018
Speech by Mr Luigi Federico Signorini, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy, at the meeting to celebrate the publication of “Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. Writings in the Nuova Antologia”, organized by the Bank of Italy, Florence, 12 March 2018….
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3/14/2018
Remarks by Mr Timothy Lane, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, to the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, Vancouver, British Columbia, 8 March 2018….
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3/14/2018
Speech by Mr Olli Rehn, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Finland, at the International Women’s Day, Helsinki, 8 March 2018….
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3/14/2018
Address by Mr Luis M Linde, Governor of the Bank of Spain, to the Asociación Española de Directivos, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1 March 2018….
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3/14/2018
Speech by Mr Grant Spencer, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, to INFINZ, Auckland, 13 March 2018….
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3/14/2018
Speech by Dr Jorgovanka Tabaković, Governor of the National Bank of Serbia, at the Conference organized by the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, on the occasion of the launch of the Global Public Investor Gender Balance Index, London, 7 March 2018….
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3/14/2018
Introductory remarks by Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Deputy General Manager of the BIS, at the Seventh BIS Research Network meeting on “Pushing the frontier of central banks’ macro-modelling”, Basel, 8 March 2018….
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3/13/2018
Remarks by Mr Stephen S Poloz, Governor of the Bank of Canada, at the unveiling of the new $10 note, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 8 March 2018….
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3/13/2018
Speech by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the Bundesbank symposium “Banking supervision in dialogue”, Frankfurt/Main, 7 March 2018….
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3/13/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the Management Association of the Philippines’ (MAP) Economic Briefing 2018 and General Membership Meeting, Manila, 6 March 2018….
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3/13/2018
Remarks by Mr William C Dudley, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at the Central Bank of Brazil, São Paulo, 1 March 2018….
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3/13/2018
SS&C Technologies has agreed to acquire North American fund administration business from CACEIS for an undisclosed sum….
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3/12/2018
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision publishes the “Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP) – Handbook for Jurisdictional Assessments”, March 2018.The Handbook for jurisdictional assessments [hyperlink] describes the methodology used by the Basel Committee to assess the co…
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3/12/2018
Press release about BCBS issuing “Follow-up Basel III implementation assessment reports and Handbook for jurisdictional assessments” (12 March 2018)……
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3/12/2018
Singapore Exchange (SGX) has partnered with FinTech firm Smartkarma to roll out the C-Suite Pilot Program, a cloud-based platform that will allow SGX-listed companies to streamline their communication and data reporting to the institutional analyst and investor communities….
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3/12/2018
Speech by Mr Dimitar Bogov, Governor of the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia, at the High Level International Conference on Monetary Policy and Asset Management, Skopje, 16 February 2018….
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3/12/2018
Op-ed by Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Chair of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), and Ms Jacqueline Loh, Chair of the Markets Committee, published in the Financial Times under the title “Bitcoin not the answer to a cashless society”, 13 March 2018….
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3/12/2018
UK-based money transfer company TransferWise has selected Wirecard, internet technology and financial services provider, to issue a debit card to serve alongside its digital borderless account….
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3/12/2018
Report on Central bank digital currencies published by the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the Markets Committee, March 2018….
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3/12/2018
Press release about CPMI and the Markets Committee issuing a report on “Central bank digital currencies” (12 March 2018)……
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3/11/2018
BIS Quarterly Review for March 2018: Volatility is back – Special Features: Early warning indicators of banking crises: expanding the family; Tracking the international footprints of global firms; Payments are a-changin’ – but cash still rules; The ABCs of bank PBRs; Mortgages, developers and pr…
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3/11/2018
The BIS Statistical Bulletin is published quarterly and summarises all BIS statistics in tabular form. It includes introductions to each data set and a glossary of statistical terms….
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3/11/2018
Belgium-based BNP Paribas Fortis has signed an agreement to integrate Tink’s Aggregation, Personal Finance Management (PFM) and Payment Initiation technology into its mobile banking applications….
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3/11/2018
Remarks by Mr John A Rolle, Governor of the Central Bank of the Bahamas, at the Seminar on Exchange Control Liberalisation and Future Developments, Nassau, 5 February 2018….
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3/11/2018
BIS Press Release – The March issue of the BIS Quarterly Review – Volatility returns to centre stage after stock market wobble……
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3/09/2018
3/08/2018
The European Commission (EC) has unveiled a new fintech action plan to help finance industry increase the application of new technologies for better serving consumers, investors and banks….
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3/08/2018
MarketAxess and BlackRock are extending their Open Trading alliance into the Asian credit markets….
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3/07/2018
Application deadline: 4 April 2018 | Information Management Services | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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3/07/2018
Bank Account Based Blockchain (BABB) has raised $20m in funding to open its first regulated blockchain-based bank accounts before the end the year….
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3/07/2018
The Netherlands-based ABN AMRO has selected Wolters Kluwer and SAS to offer an integrated finance, risk and regulatory reporting software solution….
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3/07/2018
Address by Mr Philip Lowe, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, at the Australian Financial Review Business Summit, Sydney, 7 March 2018….
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3/07/2018
Speech by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the Institute of International Bankers, Annual Washington Conference, Washington DC, 5 March 2018….
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3/07/2018
Speech by Mr Randal K Quarles, Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Institute of International Bankers Annual Washington Conference, Washington DC, 5 March 2018….
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3/07/2018
Speech by Mr MojmÃr Hampl, Vice Governor of the Czech National Bank, at the 7th BBVA Seminar for Public Sector Investors and Issuers, Bilbao, 27 February 2018….
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3/07/2018
Mastercard has acquired mobile payments technology firm Oltio from South Africa’s Standard Bank Group for an undisclosed sum….
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3/06/2018
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has imposed a ban on former Co-operative Bank chair Paul Flowers from the financial services industry….
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3/06/2018
Joint BCBS, CPMI, FATF and FSB Press release about welcoming industry initiative facilitating correspondent banking (6 March 2018)……
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3/06/2018
Speech by Mr Geoff Bascand, Deputy Governor and Head of Operations of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, to members of the NZ Bankers’ Association, Auckland, 28 February 2018….
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3/06/2018
Speech by Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France, Munich, 15 February 2018….
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3/06/2018
Testimony by Mr Jerome H Powell, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, before the Committee on Financial Services, US House of Representatives, Washington DC, 27 February 2018….
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3/06/2018
Intervention by Prof Joachim Wuermeling, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the 2nd Annual FinTech Conference, Brussels, 27 February 2018….
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3/06/2018
Opening statement by Dr Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, at the 2018 press conference on the annual accounts, Frankfurt am Main, 27 February 2018….
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3/06/2018
Welcome address by Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the first meeting of the Working Group on Euro Risk-Free Rates, at the ECB, Frankfurt am Main, 26 February 2018….
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3/06/2018
Speech by Mr Randal K Quarles, Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the 34th Annual NABE Economic Policy Conference “Promoting Sustained Growth: Policy Tensions and Risks”, Washington DC, 26 February 2018….
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3/05/2018
Tieto has provided a solution that will allow Touch Bank customers to make payments with Visa and Mastercard cards using their Google Pay wallet….
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3/05/2018
Nasdaq, a provider of trading, clearing, exchange technology, listing, information and public company services, has lodged a patent infringement lawsuit against IEX Group over the unauthorized use of its electronic trading technology….
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3/04/2018
Bank Leumi Group’s subsidiary Leumi ABL has selected encompass confirm to support and improve its Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance processes….
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3/02/2018
Mastercard will launch a Masterpass QR bot on Facebook Messenger in Nigeria, to allow the country’s businesses to set up digital money accounts and accept QR payments….
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3/02/2018
Remarks by Mr William C Dudley, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at the Economic Press Briefing on Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands after Hurricanes Irma and Maria, New York City, 22 February 2018….
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3/01/2018
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued new rules for the credit card market, as part of its efforts to reduce interest charges….
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3/01/2018
Speech by Mr Sam Woods, Deputy Governor for Prudential Regulation of the Bank of England and Chief Executive of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), at the Association of British Insurers Annual Conference 2018, London, 27 February 2018….
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3/01/2018
Remarks by Mr Ed Sibley, Deputy Governor (Prudential Regulation) of the Central Bank of Ireland, at the “Importance of Diversity in Financial Services” event of the FuSIoN Network (the Financial Services Inclusion Network), Dublin, 13 February 2018….
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3/01/2018
HQLAx, together with Credit Suisse and ING, have executed the first live securities lending transaction settled using R3’s Corda blockchain platform….
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3/01/2018
Monetary policy has been in the grip of a pincer movement, caught between growing financial cycles, on the one hand, and an inflation process that has become quite insensitive to domestic slack, on the other. This two-pronged attack has laid bare some of the limitations of prevailing monetary policy…
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3/01/2018
Remarks by Mr William C Dudley, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at the 2018 US Monetary Policy Forum, New York City, 23 February 2018….
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3/01/2018
Speech by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the second Regional Banking Conference of the State of Hesse, Brussels, 21 February 2018….
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3/01/2018
Speech by Mr Randal K Quarles, Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Financial Services Roundtable 2018 Spring Conference, Washington DC, 26 February 2018….
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3/01/2018
Speech by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Second Annual Conference on “Fintech and Digital Innovation: Regulation at the European level and beyond”, Brussels, 27 February 2018….
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2/28/2018
MutualFirst Financial, the parent corporation of MutualBank, has completed the merger with Universal Bancorp based in Bloomfield, Indiana and its subsidiary BloomBank….
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2/28/2018
Keynote address by AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, at the 13th Asia-Pacific High-level Meeting on Banking Supervision, Singapore, 28 February 2018….
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2/28/2018
Application deadline: 2 April 2018 | General Secretariat | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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2/28/2018
Application deadline: 25 March 2018 | General Secretariat | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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2/27/2018
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has announced an operating profit before tax of £2.2bn for 2017 and its first full year attributable profit in ten years, of £752m….
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2/27/2018
CVB Financial Corp. (CVBF), the holding company for Citizens Business Bank, has agreed to merge with Community Bank, an independent and family-owned regional bank with assets of $3.7bn and 16 locations throughout Southern California….
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2/27/2018
Bank of America (BofA) has unveiled plans to open over 500 new financial centers in the next four years, as part of its efforts to provide better services for its clients….
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2/27/2018
Remarks by Mr Jerome H Powell, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Ceremonial Swearing-in, Federal Reserve Board, Washington DC, 13 February 2018….
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2/27/2018
Lecture by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the Graduate Institute Geneva, organised by the International Centre for Monetary and Banking Studies (ICMB), Geneva, 20 February 2018….
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2/27/2018
Speech by Sir Jon Cunliffe, Deputy Governor for Financial Stability of the Bank of England, at the University of Warwick, Warwick, 26 February 2018….
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2/27/2018
The Basel Committee publishes a consultative document “Pillar 3 disclosure requirements – updated framework”, February 2018….
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2/27/2018
Press release about BCBS issuing consultative document “Pillar 3 disclosure requirements – updated framework” (27 February 2018)……
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2/26/2018
New York-based electronic trading and asset management firm Mana Partners is gaining ultra-low latency exchange connectivity with Metamako….
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2/26/2018
Speech by Mr Yannis Stournaras, Governor of the Bank of Greece, at an event organized by the Hellenic Spanish Chamber of Commerce, Athens, 12 February 2018….
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2/26/2018
Speech by Ms Luci Ellis, Assistant Governor (Economic) of the Reserve Bank of Australia, to the Australian Business Economists (ABE) Conference, Sydney, 13 February 2018….
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2/26/2018
Remarks by Mr Lawrence Schembri, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, to the Manitoba Association for Business Economists, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 15 February 2018….
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2/26/2018
Speech by Mr Hitoshi Suzuki, Member of the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan, at a meeting with business leaders, Wakayama, 8 February 2018….
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2/26/2018
Speech by Sir David Ramsden, Deputy Governor for Markets and Banking of the Bank of England, at an East of England CBI event, Cambridge, 23 February 2018….
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2/26/2018
Remarks by Mr Javier Guzmán Calafell, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Mexico, at the panel “The United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce, Northeast Chapter”, organized by the US/Mexico American Chamber of Commerce, New York City, 16 February 2018….
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2/26/2018
Text of the SAFE Policy Lecture by Prof Joachim Wuermeling, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the House of Finance, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, 15 February 2018….
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2/25/2018
OCBC Bank has become the first bank in Singapore to allow its customers to do their day-to-day banking and make cashless payments using only their voices….
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2/25/2018
Remarks by Mr Fabio Panetta, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy, at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Italy Day Conference, London, 19 February 2018….
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2/25/2018
Address by Ms Michele Bullock, Assistant Governor (Financial System) of the Reserve Bank of Australia, to the Responsible Lending and Borrowing Summit, Sydney, 20 February 2018….
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2/25/2018
Speech by Mr Randal K Quarles, Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at “10 Years after the Global Financial Crisis: How Has the World Economy Changed and Where Will It Go?” 26th International Financial Symposium, sponsored by the Institute…
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2/25/2018
Speech by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the European Banking Federation’s Executive Committee, Frankfurt am Main, 22 February 2018….
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2/25/2018
Speech by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the ESMT Open Lecture, European School for Management and Technology (ESMT), Berlin, 14 February 2018….
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2/25/2018
Opening remarks by Dr Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, at the Fourth cash symposium of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main, 14 February 2018….
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2/23/2018
The UK Parliament’s Treasury Committee has launched an investigation on digital currencies and distributed ledger technology….
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2/22/2018
NatWest, a UK-based retail and commercial bank, has started advanced testing of an artificial intelligence (AI) driven digital human in banking operations….
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2/21/2018
English translation of speech in Spanish by Mr Fernando Restoy, Chairman, Financial Stability Institute, Bank for International Settlements, to CÃrculo Financiero La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain, 19 February 2018….
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2/21/2018
Spanish banking group Banco Santander has agreed to use Appian’s platform in the cloud for enterprise process improvement….
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2/21/2018
Swiss banking software provider Temenos has agreed to acquire UK financial technology firm Fidessa in a cash deal valued at around £1.4bn….
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2/20/2018
Remarks by Mr Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Deputy General Manager of the BIS, and Mr Jochen Schanz, Senior Economist, on the occasion of the joint conference by the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia and the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee on “Monetary policy and asset management&qu…
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2/20/2018
BankLabs, a provider of mobile technology products for community banks, has launched +Pay, an automated payment stream between builders and sub-contractors….
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2/20/2018
Payments enablement technology provider NMI has agreed to acquire Creditcall, a multichannel payment gateway and EMV standard solutions provider, to enhance its EMV payment capabilties….
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2/20/2018
Payments company Texcent Asia has received remittance license from the Monetary Authority Singapore (MAS)….
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2/20/2018
Speech by Sir Jon Cunliffe, Deputy Governor for Financial Stability of the Bank of England, at the Asset Management Derivatives Forum, Dana Point, California, 9 February 2018….
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2/20/2018
German banking and financial services firm Deutsche Bank is reportedly planning to cut up to 250 investment banking jobs across the globe….
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2/20/2018
Speech by Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the NBRM High Level International Conference on Monetary Policy and Asset Management, Skopje, 16 February 2018….
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2/20/2018
Keynote speech by Ms Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, at the Dutch Banking Day 2018, 15 February 2018….
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2/20/2018
Speech by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the 4th Bargeldsymposium of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main, 14 February 2018….
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2/19/2018
US-based full-service investment bank D.A. Davidson has partnered with MCF Corporate Finance, a European independent M&A advisory firm, to expand investment banking capabilities in Europe and North America….
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2/19/2018
Speech by Mr Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the Financial Stability Board, at Regent’s University, London, 19 February 2018….
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2/19/2018
Speech by Mr Ignazio Visco, Governor of the Bank of Italy, at the 24th Congress of ASSIOM FOREX (the Italian financial markets association), Verona, 10 February 2018….
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2/19/2018
Speech by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the “Rencontres du Club SEPA”, Paris, 15 February 2018….
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2/19/2018
Press release about BCBS issuing “Sound Practices: implications of fintech developments for banks and supervisors issued by the Basel Committee” (19 February 2018)……
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2/19/2018
The Basel Committee is publishing “Sound Practices: implications of fintech developments for banks and bank supervisors”, February 2018….
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2/16/2018
The 30-year U.S. swap spreads have been negative since September 2008. We offer a novel explanation for this persistent anomaly. Through an illustrative model, we show that underfunded pension plans optimally use swaps for duration hedging. Combined with dealer banks’ balance sheet constraints,…
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2/16/2018
This paper investigates whether the price response to credit rating agency (CRA) announcements on sovereign bonds has diminished since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). We characterize credit rating events more precisely than previous work, controlling agency announcements for the prior credit stat…
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2/16/2018
CPMI press release about release of report on Cross-border retail payments, 16 February 2018….
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2/16/2018
Report on Cross-border retail payments published by the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), February 2018….
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2/16/2018
India-based Punjab National Bank (PNB) said it has identified deceitful transactions valued around $1.7bn at a single Mumbai branch in the state of Maharashtra….
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2/15/2018
Citi Ventures and PNC have invested in HighRadius, a Fintech enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company….
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2/15/2018
The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son has agreed to acquire Deutsche Bank’s banking and custody business in the Cayman Islands, Jersey and Guernsey for an undisclosed amount….
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2/15/2018
We extract the market’s expectations about the ECB’s negative interest rate policy from the euro area’s yield curve and study its impact on the yield curve. To capture the rich dynamics taking place at the short end of the yield curve, we introduce two policy indicators that……
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2/14/2018
Keynote address by Mr AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, at the 53rd SEACEN Governors’ Conference/High-level Seminar and 37th Meeting of the SEACEN Board of Governors, Bangkok, 15 December 2017. Over the past two decades you have strengthened your financial systems, in part through t…
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2/14/2018
Popular’s banking subsidiary Banco Popular de Puerto Rico has agreed to acquire Wells Fargo’s auto finance business in Puerto Rico for around $1.7bn….
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2/14/2018
The Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) has unveiled the country’s first platform for clearing and settling securities through blockchain technology….
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2/13/2018
Application deadline: 13 March 2018 | Statistics & Research Support | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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2/13/2018
We estimate variance risk premiums (VRPs) in the stock markets of major advanced economies (AEs) and emerging market economies (EMEs) over 2007-15 and decompose the VRP into variance-diffusive risk premium (DRP) and variance-jump risk premium (JRP). Daily VAR analysis reveals significant spillovers…
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2/13/2018
Application deadline: 11 March 2018 | Information Management Services | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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2/13/2018
Wells Fargo has added AI enhancement to mobile app, giving personalized account insights to customers across the US….
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2/12/2018
Cecabank has extended existing LCH Limited membership to include equities clearing….
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2/12/2018
Digital payments provider Visa has agreed to acquire Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology firm Fraedom….
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2/12/2018
We develop a stylised shadow banking map for China with the aim of providing a coherent picture of its structure and the associated financial system interlinkages. Five key characteristics emerge. One defining feature of the shadow banking system in China is the dominant role of commercial banks, tr…
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2/11/2018
FinNet Innovation Network, a subsidiary of the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), has rolled out a new payments platform to comply with the government’s National e-Payment Roadmap….
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2/09/2018
Press Release about BIS and IMF to work more closely together to help strengthen financial supervisory skills around the world (9 February 2018)……
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2/09/2018
Speech by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at UK Finance, London, 8 February 2018….
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2/09/2018
Remarks by Ms Carolyn Wilkins, Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, at the G7 Symposium on Innovation and Inclusive Growth, Montebello, Quebec, 8 February 2018….
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2/09/2018
Press release about BIS’s Financial Stability Institute and the International Association of Deposit Insurers host eighth conference on bank resolution, crisis management and deposit insurance, 9 February 2018….
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2/08/2018
Keynote address by Mr AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, at the BIS-IMF symposium, Basel, 8 February 2018. There is growing demand for capacity-building; but at the same time, resources are limited. It would be useful to find ways to coordinate, to prioritise the different demands and to…
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2/08/2018
Concluding remarks by Mr AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, at the 8th FSI-IADI conference on “Bank resolution, crisis management and deposit insurance”, Basel, 2 February 2018. This year’s conference is very timely, as it follows the resolution of a few banks in the post-c…
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2/08/2018
Remarks by Mr Muhammad bin Ibrahim, Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), at the 40th Harvard Business School Alumni Club Malaysia Anniversary Dinner, Kuala Lumpur, 9 February 2018….
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2/08/2018
Speech by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, 8 February 2018….
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2/08/2018
A group of Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish banks is currently exploring the possibility of establishing a pan-Nordic payment infrastructure supplemented by common products….
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2/08/2018
Net 1 UEPS Technologies has agreed to acquire an additional 5% stake in Bank Frick & Co, a fully licensed bank based in Balzers, Liechtenstein….
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2/08/2018
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus has agreed to purchase a 55% stake in financial services technology solutions provider Fiserv’s lending solutions business for around $395m….
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2/07/2018
Speech by Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France, at the “Financial Globalisation” conference, Central Bank of Ireland Symposium, Dublin, 2 February 2018….
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2/07/2018
A common practice in studies using inflation forecasts is to approximate fixed-horizon forecasts with fixed-event ones. Here we show that this may be problematic. In a panel of US inflation forecast data that allows us to compare the two, the approximation results in ……
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2/07/2018
Lecture by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, London, 8 February 2018….
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2/07/2018
Remarks by Mr Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the GIC/SUERF/Deutsche Bundesbank Conference “Monetary and economic policies on both sides of the Atlantic”, Frankfurt am Main, 8 February 2018….
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2/07/2018
We analyse the behaviour of inflation expectations during periods of deflation, using a large cross-country data set of individual professional forecasters’ expectations. We find some evidence that expectations become less well anchored during deflations. Deflations are associated with a downwar…
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2/07/2018
Keynote speech by Dr Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, at the GIC/SUERF/Deutsche Bundesbank Conference “Monetary and economic policies on both sides of the Atlantic”, Frankfurt am Main, 8 Fe…
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2/07/2018
Interview with Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, and Bloomberg, conducted by Mr Piotr Skolimowski and Ms Carolynn Look on 6 February 2018….
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2/07/2018
Application deadline: 7 March 2018 | International Association of Insurance Supervisors | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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2/06/2018
Application deadline: 4 March 2018 | Information Management Services | Location: Basel, Switzerland……
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2/06/2018
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has decided to keep open 10-closure threatened branches until the end of this year….
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2/06/2018
Nordic financial services group Nordeais deploying the complete VeridiumID platform to replace tokens with biometric authentication for access to confidential and secure data….
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2/06/2018
Intesa Sanpaolo’s investment bank Banca IMI has migrated its equity derivatives business to Murex’s MX.3 platform and consolidated all front office activities on a single instance….
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2/06/2018
Danish financial services group Alm. Brand has agreed to acquire Saxo Privatbank from its parent firm Saxo Bank for around DKK360m ($60.1m)….
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2/06/2018
Remarks by Mr Philip R Lane, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, to the Financial Globalisation Symposium as part of the programme to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin, 2 February 2018….
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2/06/2018
Speech by Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the conference “Deepening of EMU”, Ljubljana, 2 February 2018….
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2/06/2018
Money is a social convention where one party accepts it as payment in the expectation that others will do so too. Over the ages, various forms of private money have come and gone, giving way to central bank money. The reasons for the resilience of central bank money are of particular interest given…
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2/06/2018
Press Release about BIS General Manager AgustÃn Carstens giving a speech on “Money in the digital age: what role for central banks?” (6 February 2018)……
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2/06/2018
Lecture by Mr AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, at the House of Finance, Goethe University, Frankfurt, 6 February 2018. I am very happy to be here at this prestigious university and to be part of this impressive lecture series sponsored by Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe…
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2/05/2018
Welcome remarks by Dr Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, for the SAFE/CFS/Deutsche Bundesbank Lecture, given by Mr AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, Frankfur…
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2/05/2018
Introductory statement by Mr Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, to the plenary debate of the European Parliament on the European Central Bank’s Annual Report 2016, Strasbourg, 5 February 2017….
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2/05/2018
Speech by Mr Alex Brazier, Executive Director for Financial Stability Strategy and Risk of the Bank of England, at the Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis, Imperial College Business School, London, 1 February 2018….
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2/04/2018
Alibaba Group has agreed to purchase a 33% stake in Ant Small and Micro Financial Services Group (Ant Financial)….
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2/04/2018
Remarks by Mr Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Cercle de Lorraine, Brussels, 1 February 2018….
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2/04/2018
Introductory address by Dr Jorgovanka Tabaković, Governor of the National Bank of Serbia, at the Insurance Gathering “Serbian Insurance Days”, AranÄ‘elovac, 29 November 2017….
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2/04/2018
Interview with Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, and RTÉ TV, conducted by Mr Sean Whelan on 31 January 2018….
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2/04/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the Annual Reception for the Banking Community, Manila, 19 January 2018….
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2/01/2018
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has introduced new rules, which requires banks to warn people before they slip into overdraft….
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2/01/2018
The European Commission has launched the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum with the support of the European Parliament, represented by Jakob von Weizsäcker responsible for the recent report on virtual currencies….
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2/01/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the YPO event “PH Business and Economy: Outlook and Forecasts from the BSP Chief”, Manila, 17 January 2018….
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2/01/2018
Speech by Dr Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, at the awarding of the Karl Klasen Journalism Prize, Hamburg, 30 January 2018….
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2/01/2018
Speech by Mr MojmÃr Hampl, Vice Governor of the Czech National Bank, at the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) Roundtable for Public Sector Asset Managers, London, 30 January 2018….
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2/01/2018
Scotiabank’s Colombian subsidiary Banco Colpatria Multibanca Colpatria has agreed to acquire Citibank’s consumer and small and medium enterprise businesses in Colombia….
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2/01/2018
Speech by Mr Benoît CÅ”uré, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Financial Times European Financial Forum “Building a New Future for International Financial Services”, Dublin, 31 January 2018….
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2/01/2018
We use trades by US corporate insiders to investigate bank opacity, both in absolute terms and relative to other firms. On average, bank insider sales do not earn an abnormal return and do not predict stock returns. By contrast, bank insider purchases do, even though less than other firms. Our withi…
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2/01/2018
Speech by Dr Veerathai Santiprabhob, Governor of the Bank of Thailand, at the Press Conference, Bangkok, 30 August 2017….
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1/31/2018
Special address by Dr Veerathai Santiprabhob, Governor of the Bank of Thailand, at the World Federation of Exchanges General Assembly & Annual Meeting, Bangkok, 6 September 2017….
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1/31/2018
The Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending (AHML) and Russia-based Tinkoff Bank have agreed to form a joint venture to provide mortgage lending on a special electronic platform….
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1/31/2018
Blackstone-led consortium has agreed to acquire 55% stake in Thomson Reuters’ financial and risk (F&R) unit in a deal valued at around $20bn….
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1/31/2018
Speech by Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France, at the 6th “Ethics and Trust in Finance” Global Prize ceremony, Paris, 15 January 2018….
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1/30/2018
Speech by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS) Distinguished Lecture Series, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, 30 January 2018….
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1/30/2018
Keynote address by Mr AgustÃn Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, at the Institute of International Finance Board of Directors dinner, Zurich, 21 January 2018….
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1/30/2018
How do monetary policy spillovers complicate the trade-offs faced by central banks face when responding to commodity prices? This question takes on particular relevance when monetary authorities find it difficult to accurately diagnose the drivers of commodity prices. If monetary authorities misdiag…
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1/30/2018
Jefferies and Bank of China’s BOC International (BOCI) have partnered to provide investment banking advisory and capital market services to their clients globally….
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1/30/2018
Speech by Mr Esala Masitabua, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Fiji, at the Launch of the 2018 Reserve Bank of Fiji Student Diary, Fiji, 30 January 2018….
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1/30/2018
Speech by Ms Kerstin af Jochnick, First Deputy Governor of the Sveriges Riksbank, at an event at the Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm, 29 January 2018….
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1/30/2018
Speech by Mr Philip R Lane, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, at the European Financial Forum, Dublin, 31 January 2018….
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1/30/2018
Volante Technologies has partnered with BNY Mellon for the development of advanced payments technology….
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1/29/2018
Speech by Mr Job Swank, Executive Director of the Netherlands Bank, at ESB’s Conversation with Regulators on Innovation in Payment Services, The Hague, 18 January 2018….
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1/29/2018
Address by Mr Luis M Linde, Governor of the Bank of Spain, at the Panel “New challenges for central banks”, 2018 Gaidar Forum “Russia and the world – values and virtues”, Moscow, 17 January 2018….
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1/29/2018
Exchange rate fluctuations influence economic activity not only via the standard trade channel, but also through a financial channel, which operates through the impact of exchange rate fluctuations on borrowers’ balance sheets and lenders’ risk-taking capacity. This paper explores the “…
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1/29/2018
Romania-based Banca Transilvania has selected Inside Secure’s Mobile Payment Server and Mobile Payment Client for its new service….
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1/29/2018
Speech by Ms Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, at the Institute for Law and Finance Conference on Basel III, Frankfurt am Main, 29 January 2018….
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1/29/2018
Dutch Banking and financial services firm ING has agreed to purchase a 75% stake in international card acquirer and payments platform, Payvision, for around €360m….
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1/29/2018
Keynote speech by Stefan Ingves, Chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, at the Institute for Law and Finance conference on “Basel III: Are we done now?”, Goethe University, Frankfurt, 29 January 2018. The title of this conference is “Basel III: Are we done now?”….
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1/28/2018
Statement by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Statement by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the Institute for Law and Finance Conference on Basel III, Frankfurt am Main, 29 January 2018….
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1/28/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the Joint Meeting of Rotary Club of Manila, Rotary Club of Makati West, and Rotary Club of Forbes Park, Makati City, 4 January 2018….
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1/28/2018
Speech by Mr Nestor A Espenilla, Jr, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at the Signing of the Memorandum of Agreement between the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and the Philippine Payments Management, Inc. (PPMI), Manila, 12 January 2018….
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1/28/2018
Speech by Mr Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Council of the European Union, Brussels, 29 January 2018….
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1/26/2018
1/26/2018
Speech by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the 13th BCBS-FSI High-level Meeting for Africa on “Strengthening financial sector supervision and current regulatory priorities”, Cape Town, 24 January 2018….
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1/26/2018
Address by Mr François Groepe, Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, at the 13th BCBS-FSI High-level Meeting for Africa on “Strengthening financial sector supervision and current regulatory priorities”, Cape Town, 25 January 2018….
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1/25/2018
Address by Mr Luis M Linde, Governor of the Bank of Spain, to the Club Siglo XXI, Madrid, 22 January 2018….
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1/25/2018
First Data has expanded partnership with SBI Card, a credit cards issuer in India with over 5.6 million customers….
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1/25/2018
Remarks by Mr John A Rolle, Governor of the Central Bank of The Bahamas, at the Bahamas Business Outlook 2018, Nassau, 18 January 2018….
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1/25/2018
Speech by Mr Gent Sejko, Governor of the Bank of Albania, at the Tirana Economic Forum “Future Balkans: Towards a global inclusion” Leadership, Institutions and Policies Convergence 2017-2020, Tirana, 24 January 2018….
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1/25/2018
Global value chains (GVCs) figure prominently in global trade and lie at the intersection of two important themes. The first is the financing requirement for working capital. The second is the prevalence of dollar invoicing in global trade ……
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