Saturday, March 9, 2019

Monthly BIS Newsletter Update

Below I have pasted in the monthly BIS newsletter that comes by email. In this issue there is an article on blockchain along with an update on the Basel Committee post financial crisis reforms.

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March 2019

Integrated inflation targeting 

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Luiz Pereira on how to achieve both price and financial stability in inflation targeting emerging market economies.

Basel Committee meets 

At its February meeting, the Basel Committee reviewed implementation of its post-crisis reforms, including margin requirements, and agreed to publish supervisory expectations related to banks’ exposures to crypto-assets.

House prices in Q3 2018

Real residential property prices increased on average by 2% year-on-year, but with large differences across advanced and emerging market economies.

An examination of experience with the G-SIB framework

The Basel Committee releases historical data and initial analysis of the global systemically important bank (G-SIB) indicators since the introduction of the G-SIB framework.

Median growth rate of individual bank values for G-SIB indicators

Keynes Lecture 2018-2019

BIS Economic Adviser and Head of Research Hyun Song Shin uses global game theory to analyse decentralised payment systems built around blockchain technology.
More BIS publications 

Interview: William Coen on the Institute of International Finance's FRT Podcast 
Basel Committee Secretary General William Coen speaks about market risk, the year ahead and the upcoming consolidated framework for Basel standards.

Working Paper: Central counterparty capitalisation and misaligned incentives
Do for-profit central counterparties (CCPs) undermine financial stability? On average they hold less capital, or “skin-in-the-game” than user-owned CCPs.

Working Paper: Safe assets: made, not just born
Reserve managers need not worry about a lack of safe assets: the supply of US Treasuries is outgrowing demand.

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