A decline in the value of credit default ... According to figures from the Bank for International ... For the first time since the publication of ... "The decline to a large extent reflects early ... There was significant growth in the amount of ... Equity derivatives increased by 20%, reversing a 1%...
A decline in the value of credit default ... According to figures from the Bank for International ... For the first time since the publication of ... "The decline to a large extent reflects early ... There was significant growth in the amount of ... Foreign exchange derivatives also increased by 12% to...
The value of lending by banks shrunk by ... In the second quarter of this year, banks ... The largest previous contractions occurred in the second ... According to the report, titled 'Preliminary Locational and ... The report said: "Short-term claims accounted for the...
The value of lending by banks shrunk by ... In the second quarter of this year, banks ... The largest previous contractions occurred in the second ... According to the report, titled "Preliminary Locational and ... The report said: "Short-term claims accounted for the...
Intervention by central banks to increase liquidity and ... In its quarterly review, published today, the Bank ... It added that while the bond markets from ... The US Federal Reserve tried to increase liquidity ... However, the BIS report said the spread, or ... The spread was 78 basis points on August...
Complex structured securities such as asset-backed collateralised debt ... In a report entitled ‘Credit Risk Transfer’, the ... According to the report, "A failure to understand ... The BIS goes on to blame weak origination ... The structured credit market is likely to survive,...
Banks have been forced to lend an increasing ... A report by the Bank of International Settlements ... The report, which tallies all the claims for ... This increase in inter-office lending contributed to loan ... Mamoun Tazi, an analyst at MF Global Securities, ... He added: “Bigger organisations have stopped lending to...
Investors must reduce their reliance on ratings agencies, ... The paper, released by the BIS yesterday, reported ... The report, "Ratings in structured finance: what went ... According to the report: "credit rating information should ... In particular, the CGFS recommends that structured finance...
Annual consumer price inflation in the eurozone surged ... Meanwhile, Germany’s finance minister, Peer Steinbrück, has warned ... The figures exceeded expectations of a 3.9% increase. ... On the other hand, the Bank for International...
The global economy could be facing a deeper ... Speaking at the Bank's annual general meeting in ... The BIS 78th Annual Report, a 251-page review ... The report said: "While difficult to predict, their ... "With a significant risk of recession in the ... The current economic climate is, according to the...
The global economy could be facing a deeper ... Speaking at the Bank's annual general meeting in ... The BIS 78th Annual Report, a 251-page review ... The report said: "While difficult to predict, their ... "With a significant risk of recession in the ... The current economic climate is, according to the...
Deutsche Bank has hired Malcolm Knight, the outgoing ... Knight is leaving his post as chief executive ... He will report to Josef Ackermann, Deutsche Bank’s...
A key measure of estimating the value of ... The BIS says the ABX prices may be ... The BIS says the value of subprime mortgage-backed ... Under the BIS' new calculations, losses on triple-A...
The payments and settlement systems underpinning the world’s ... Global payment and settlement system operators and financial ... The report, produced by the BIS Committee on ... Timothy Geithner, the president of the US Federal ... The paper, ‘The Interdependencies of payment and settlement...
The payments and settlement systems underpinning the world’s ... Global payment and settlement system operators and financial ... The report, produced by the BIS Committee on ... Timothy Geithner, the president of the US Federal ... The paper, "The Interdependencies of payment and settlement...
Malcolm Knight, chief executive of the Bank for ... Speaking at the annual IOSCO conference in Paris ... He said the first course of action should ... Knight also called for greater transparency of information, ... He said: "It's not so much the modelling, ... Thirdly, Knight said there was a need to...