Bank of International Settlement

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Learning Resources – Information ResearchBank for International Settlement

Segment Six – Bank for International

Settlement

Online Research Induction

• International Management• International Political Economy• International Business• International Relations

Online Research Induction for Students of

• to introduce new online resources to students of Int. Management, Int. Political Economy, Int. Business and Int. Relations

• to enable students to find and use statistics and alternative arguments to underpin their academic research

• to foster critical thinking by providing alternative arguments and use of other points of views

Purpose of these sessions

• divided into three sessions each dealing with organisations

• giving information about statistics, reports, papers, publications

• main-stream information and alternative views

The topic will be

Established on 17 May 1930 (world's oldest international financial organisation.)

Head office: Basel with two representative offices in Hong Kong and Mexico City.

Customers are central banks and international organisations the BIS does not accept deposits from, or provide

financial services to, private individuals or corporate entities

The mission is to serve central banks in their pursuit of monetary and financial stability to foster international cooperation in those areas to act as a bank for central banks

Bank for International Settlement (BIS)(http://www.bis.org/)

In broad outline, the BIS pursues its mission by:

promoting discussion and facilitating collaboration among central banks

supporting dialogue with other authorities that are responsible for promoting financial stability

conducting research on policy issues confronting central banks and financial supervisory authorities

acting as a prime counterparty for central banks in their financial transactions

serving as an agent or trustee in connection with international financial operations

Bank for International Settlement (BIS)(http://www.bis.org/)

Central Bank Hub (http://www.bis.org/central_bank_hub_overview.htm)• forum for

– discussion– policy analysis – information-sharing

… among central banks

Central Bank Research Hub (http://www.bis.org/cbhub/index.htm)

facilitating access to research publications from the community of central banks and international financial institutions

Bank for International Settlement (BIS)(http://www.bis.org/)

This gives you an overview

over the most recent additions either by title or

by author(s)

More ‘Research by…’ options

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Central Bank websites (http://www.bis.org/cbanks.htm) Central Bank Governance Forum

(http://www.bis.org/about/cbgov.htm) acts as a focal point for discussion of and clearing house

for information on central bank governance and organisational matters

Monetary and financial stability (http://www.bis.org/stability.htm) standing committees located at the BIS support central

banks, and authorities in charge of financial stability more generally, by providing background analysis and policy recommendations

Bank for International Settlement (BIS)(http://www.bis.org/)

Monetary and financial stability (cont.) standing committees are: • the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

(www.bis.org/bcbs/index.htm)• the Committee on the Global Financial System

(www.bis.org/cgfs/index.htm)• the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems

(www.bis.org/cpss/index.htm)• the Markets Committee (http://www.bis.org/about/factmktc.htm)• the Central Bank Governance Forum

(http://www.bis.org/about/cbgov.htm)• the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics

(http://www.bis.org/ifc/index.htm)

Bank for International Settlement (BIS)(http://www.bis.org/)

Gives information of monetary & banking stability instruments, like Basel I, II and III

Publications and research (www.bis.org/forum/research.htm)

The BIS publishes the Annual Report (www.bis.org/publ/annualreport.htm) Quarterly Review (www.bis.org/publ/quarterly.htm) committee publications (www.bis.org/publ/cmtpubl.htm) Historical materials (www.bis.org/publ/meth.htm) Group of Ten publications (www.bis.org/list/g10publications/index.htm) works published by a specific author (www.bis.org/author/index.htm) meetings and conferences (www.bis.org/list/conferences/index.htm) working papers (www.bis.org/list/wpapers/index.htm) Asian office research (www.bis.org/about/repoffice_asia/aoresearch.htm)

Bank for International Settlement (BIS)(http://www.bis.org/)

Statistics banking statistics (www.bis.org/statistics/about_banking_stats.htm) the cross-border lending and borrowing of internationally active

banks in key financial centres, including offshore centres

securities statistics (http://www.bis.org/statistics/secstats.htm) issuing activity in international and domestic securities markets

derivatives statistics (http://www.bis.org/statistics/secstats.htm) and Triennial Survey (http://www.bis.org/triennial.htm)

activity in over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives markets

Bank for International Settlement (BIS)(http://www.bis.org/)

Statistics (cont.) effective exchange rates (www.bis.org/statistics/eer/index.htm) effective exchange rate (EER) indices for 58 economies foreign exchange statistics (www.bis.org/triennial.htm) activity in the global foreign exchange markets external debt statistics (www.bis.org/publ/r_debt.htm) external debt positions of individual countries based on BIS

banking and securities statistics and on data from other international organisations

payment statistics (www.bis.org/statistics/payment_stats.htm) payment and settlement systems in major financial centres

Bank for International Settlement (BIS)(http://www.bis.org/)

Statistics (cont.) property price statistics (www.bis.org/statistics/pp.htm) residential property, commercial property and land price indices

for 54 economies

statistics on credit to the private sector (www.bis.org/statistics/credtopriv.htm)

long series on credit to private non-financial sectors for 40 economies

global liquidity indicators (www.bis.org/statistics/gli.htm)indicators developed to monitor global liquidity conditions

Bank for International Settlement (BIS)(http://www.bis.org/)

Please contact in the Library

Sven Griesenbeckhiggens@regents.ac.uk

For further information