Report focuses on the risks created by delays in documenting and confirming transactions
Value of funds from migrant workers back their home countries estimated to exceed US$230 billion in 2005
BIS finds rapid growth in credit default swaps
Dutch and French banks reported the largest increases in foreign claims
Markets focused on monetary policy in the second quarter
Papers reveal accounting changes can lead to changes in banks’ economic behaviour
Improvements in market liquidity has contributed to the decline, says BIS paper
The Bank for International Settlements announced that it will carry out its seventh triennial survey of foreign exchange and derivatives markets in April and June 2007.Every three years, the BIS coordinates a global central bank survey of foreign exchange and derivatives market activity. The bank says that the purpose of the survey is to obtain […]
Central bank governors from Mexico, Europe and China join board
BIS releases annual report