A short presentation on the Bank of International Settlement

1. Learning Resources – Information Research
1
Bank for International Settlement
Learning Resources
Regent’s University London

2. Online Research Induction
Segment Six –
Bank for International
Settlement

3. Online Research Induction for Students of
• International Management
• International Political Economy
• International Business
• International Relations

4. Purpose of these sessions
• 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

5. The topic will be
• divided into three sessions each dealing with organisations
• giving information about statistics, reports, papers,
publications
• main-stream information and alternative views

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

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

8. 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

9. This gives you an
overview over the
most recent
additions either by
title or by author(s)
More
‘Research
by…’
options

10. Search by
author

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

12. 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)

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

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

15. Bank for International Settlement (BIS)
 Statistics
(http://www.bis.org/)
 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

16. Bank for International Settlement (BIS)
 Statistics (cont.)
(http://www.bis.org/)
 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

17. Bank for International Settlement (BIS)
 Statistics (cont.)
(http://www.bis.org/)
 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

18. For further information
Please contact in the Library
Sven Griesenbeck
higgens@regents.ac.uk