Bank for International Settlements

A Bank for International Settlements is an International Organization of central banks.

• AKA: BIS.
• See: International Financial Statistic, Global Financial System.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_for_International_Settlements Retrieved:2014-12-7.
  • The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) (in French, Banque des règlements internationaux (BRI)) is an international organization of central banks which "fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks".

    The BIS carries out its work through subcommittees, the secretariats it hosts and through an annual general meeting of all member banks. It also provides banking services, but only to central banks and other international organizations. It is based in Basel, Switzerland, with representative offices in Hong Kong and Mexico City.

• http://www.bis.org/statistics/
  • The BIS international financial statistics are a unique source of information on various elements of the global financial system. They include data on:
    • the cross-border lending and borrowing of internationally active banks in key financial centres, including offshore centres (banking statistics)
    • issuing activity in international and domestic securities markets (securities statistics)
    • activity in over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives markets (derivatives statistics and Triennial Survey)
    • effective exchange rate (EER) indices for 58 economies (effective exchange rates)
    • activity in the global foreign exchange markets (foreign exchange statistics)
    • external debt positions of individual countries based on BIS banking and securities statistics as well as on data from other international organisations (external debt statistics)
    • payment and settlement systems in major financial centres (payment statistics)
    • residential property, commercial property and land price indices for 57 economies (property price statistics)
    • long series on credit to private non-financial sectors for 40 economies (statistics on credit to the private sector)
    • indicators developed to monitor global liquidity conditions (global liquidity indicators)

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