BISness

Hyun Song Shin explains how the BIS Innovation Hub, a new project designed to support central bank collaboration on new technology and to pool resources, puts central bankers at the cutting edge of innovation. Read the transcript on the BIS website.

Siddharth Tiwari explains India's experience with designing digital infrastructure and the lessons it holds for improving cross border payments.

Hyun Song Shin offers some key analytical insights on foreign exchange and OTC derivatives markets from the latest BIS Quarterly Review, in which BIS economists take a deeper look at data from the 2019 Triennial Central Bank Survey.

Agustín Carstens discusses whether fiscal policy coordination can help slowing global growth and how Libra sparked an important policy debate.

Amit Seru, the Steven and Roberta Denning Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business of Stanford University and 2018 Alexandre Lamfalussy Senior Research Fellow, discusses the policy challenges from tech firms' entry into payments and financial services and explains how the current surge in fintech innovation matches up to the past.

Ulrike Elsenhuber and Omar Zulaica, from the BIS's Banking Department, explain how the BIS and central banks are supporting environmental sustainability and the greening of the financial system through the investment of foreign exchange reserves.

Claudio Borio sat down on 19 Sept to discuss the Bank for International Settlements' latest Quarterly Review, which tells a tale of two opposing forces – trade tensions and monetary policy – and how markets oscillated under their influence.

Catherine Schenk, Professor of Economic and Social History at Oxford and BIS Lamfalussy Senior Research Fellow for 2018-19, explored BIS archives to shed light on central bank swaps. She discusses her findings and the relevance of history as a guide to policymaking.

William Coen recently left his job of Secretary General of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. In this episode of BISness, he looks back at his years at the helm of the global standard setter for the prudential regulation of banks.

BIS General Manager Agustín Carstens speaks about the risks to the global economic outlook, the path to higher interest rates and the best way to achieve sustainable growth, as outlined in Chapter I of the BIS 2019 Annual Economic Report, "No clear skies yet.".