Brief description: The mission of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is to serve central banks in their pursuit of monetary and financial stability, to foster international cooperation in those areas and to act as a bank for central banks.
Website: http://www.bis.org
RSS Feed: http://www.bis.org/rss/index.htm
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Joined: August 11th, 2011
The Bank for International Settlements wrote a new blog post titled 09May/OTC derivatives market activity in the second half of 2011
The Bank for International Settlements wrote a new blog post titled 03May/Fundamental review of trading book capital requirements: consultation by the Basel Committee
The Bank for International Settlements wrote a new blog post titled 16Apr/New standards for financial market infrastructures issued by CPSS-IOSCO
About our Activities:
The mission of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is to serve central banks in their pursuit of monetary and financial stability, to foster international cooperation in those areas and to act as a bank for central banks.
In broad outline, the BIS pursues its mission by:
- promoting discussion and facilitating collaboration among central banks;
- supporting dialogue with other authorities that are responsible for promoting financial stability;
- conducting research on policy issues confronting central banks and financial supervisory authorities;
- acting as a prime counterparty for central banks in their financial transactions; and
- serving as an agent or trustee in connection with international financial operations.
The head office is in Basel, Switzerland and there are two representative offices: in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and in Mexico City.
Established on 17 May 1930, the BIS is the world's oldest international financial organisation.
As its customers are central banks and international organisations, the BIS does not accept deposits from, or provide financial services to, private individuals or corporate entities. The BIS strongly advises caution against fraudulent schemes.
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