BISness

Benoît Cœuré and Sir Jon Cunliffe, co-chairs of a central bank working group, discuss the report, Central Bank digital currencies: foundational principles and core features.

Jean-François Rigaudy, outgoing Deputy Head of the BIS Banking Department, offers some insights on the evolution of reserve management, and of BIS banking services, from a long career serving central bank customers.

Agustín Carstens discusses the monetary and fiscal response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the challenges facing central banks ahead. Claudio Borio talks about the steps central banks took as regulators and supervisors. https://www.bis.org/publ/arpdf/ar2020e.htm

Hyun Song Shin discusses how central banks, as guardians of the safety and integrity of the payment system, must keep evolving to meet the challenge of rapidly accelerating digital innovation, as outlined in Chapter III of the BIS Annual Economic Report.

Piet Clement explains the origins of the BIS and the roles it has played since opening on 17 May 1930.

Patrizia Baudino speaks about Iceland in 2008 as part of the Financial Stability Institute's new series on bank crisis management. https://www.bis.org/fsi/fsicms1.htm

In this episode, Morten Bech explains what's shaping the future of payments.

Global warming has increased the frequency and severity of natural catastrophes. Geoff Summerhayes explains the challenges related to climate risk assessment and the transition to a low-carbon economy, and the role that financial supervision can play.

"Big data" is an increasingly important topic in the creation, storage, retrieval, methodology and analysis of multiple sources of information – for both the private and public sectors. Bruno Tissot discusses how we can best use big data, the opportunities and challenges it presents, and the policy issues it creates.

Climate change poses new challenges to central banks, regulators and supervisors. Luiz Pereira da Silva reviews ways of addressing these new risks within central banks' financial stability mandate, based on a new research paper, The green swan. "Green swan" risks are potentially extremely financially disruptive events that could be behind the next systemic financial crisis.