Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Bank For International Settlements" produced 15 items.
| 1. Dangerous currents in the murky pools | July 7, 2011 |
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The central bankers' bank is worried about the state of global finance. It is right be concerned. The American academic Adam Posen last month (27 June) told a committee of... |
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| 2. Free-wheeling economist | June 9, 2011 |
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It was third time lucky for Belgium's members of the ECB executive board. As he settled into his 34th-floor office in downtown Frankfurt last week, Peter Praet could have... |
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| 3. A suitable successor? | September 23, 2010 |
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A look at who might succeed Jean-Claude Trichet as president of the European Central Bank. The front-runners to replace Jean-Claude Trichet as president of the European... |
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| 4. Cutting out the capital rule risks | April 8, 2010 |
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Rules on capital to make sure that banks were protected against risk failed miserably, which means reform of the system is high on the EU's agenda. The failure during the... |
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| 5. Bankers facing bruising battle | October 15, 2009 |
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Central bankers and banking supervisors think that, despite the trillions of euros of government aid, bank bosses have not understood what is at stake. Europe's central... |
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| 6. Keep the lobbyists out of regulatory reform | July 16, 2009 |
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Efforts by governments and lobbyists to reduce the influence of a new financial market regulatory environment must be resisted. At London's Centre for the Study of Financial... |
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| 7. Better oversight is way to beat stress | July 3, 2008 |
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The European Central Bank should be handed a leading role in cross-border banking supervision to foster stability in the financial system. You will look in vain for economic... |
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| 8. Why central banks must take the lead | May 8, 2008 |
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Central banks must step up to the plate and take a bigger role in financial regulation, however uncomfortable that may be for some. Last Thursday we saw the first... |
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| 9. Crisis would test new bank capital rules | February 8, 2007 |
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Last month saw the first step in one of the biggest transformations of banking regulation across the European Union since the 1974 collapse of Germany's Herstatt Bank. The... | |
| 10. Trichet worries about a case of speculative wind | February 1, 2007 |
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Has Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), just had an “irrational exuberance” moment? In 1996 Alan Greenspan, then chairman of the US... | |
| 11. Basel II, the sequel... | February 16, 2006 |
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Next year, under the current timetable, the most complex, costly and controversial piece of international banking regulation that has ever been dreamt up will begin to be... | |
| 12. Bursting the bubbles | June 30, 2005 |
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Governments and central bankers in Europe and around the world should change the methods they use for stabilising their economies, according to the Bank for International... | |
| 13. MEPs check impact of bank accord on growth | April 18, 2002 |
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MEPS are set to study the impact of new rules on bank capital adequacy to make sure they don't hurt small firms vital to boosting European growth. The move by the assembly's... | |
| 14. France faces losing grip on IMF 'fiefdom' | November 18, 1999 |
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ITALY and Germany's treasury chiefs are emerging as the EU's leading candidates to succeed Frenchman Michel Camdessus as head of the International Monetary Fund in the... | |
| 15. Europe's money man | December 7, 1995 |
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‘Name five famous Belgians' is a favourite game often played by Anglophone cynics. Once you have got past Jean-Claude Van Damme, Hergé and Audrey Hepburn, you often... | |
