BIS - Household Debt and Financial Stability

I get a monthly email update from the Bank for International Settlements (pasted in below). This month it included a short video on the topic - Household debt and financial stability. It's mostly just some common sense analysis, but I did note that BIS felt the issue was important enough to do this brief video on it. See just below.

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BIS Video - Houshold Debt and Financial Stability

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Below I have pasted in the full email update for this month from the BIS

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January 2018 Finalising Basel III The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has finalised post-crisis regulatory reforms to make banks more resilient and restore confidence in banking systems. Basel III package finalised  Watch highlights of the announcement of the Basel III reforms. A paradoxical tightening? The latest BIS Quarterly Review discusses the easing in global financial conditions despite tightening by some major central banks. Household debt: recent developments and challenges Economist Anna Zabai explains how high household debt could affect economic and financial stability. Bank business models: popularity and performance Bank business models under the spotlight: commercial banks show lower cost-to-income ratios and more stable return-on-equity than trading banks. More BIS publications  Publication: Stress testing principles  The Basel Committee proposes new, streamlined principles for bank stress testing. Working Paper: Why so low for so long? A long-term view of real interest rates The usual explanations for the decline in real interest rates appear to be more coincidence than cause. Working Paper: Triffin: dilemma or myth? Setting the record straight about the dilemma posed by Robert Triffin and its application to current policy debates. Upcoming 10 Jan 2018: Claudio Borio speaks at the BIS-IMF-OECD conference on productivity in Paris, France By 23 Jan 2018: BIS publishes international banking statistics 25 Jan 2018: BIS publishes global liquidity indicators