- Systemic Risk Measures and Their Viability for Banking Supervision
Report · 9 July 2014
We propose a criteria-based framework to assess the viability of systemic risk measures (SRMs) as a monitoring tool for banking supervision and investigate the determinants of the banking system's…
- Macroprudential Supervision: From Theory to Policy
5 November 2020
Financial supervision focuses on the aggregate (macroprudential) in addition to the individual (microprudential). But an agreed framework for measuring and addressing financial imbalances is lacking.…
- The Value of Regulators as Monitors: Evidence from Banking
Report · 27 September 2025
While conventional wisdom suggests that financial supervision is costly for bank shareholders, agency theory suggests that supervisors’ audits can reduce shareholder monitoring costs. I study this…
- Empowering Financial Supervision: A SupTech Experiment using Machine Learning in an Early Warning System
Report · 8 April 2025
New technologies have made available a vast amount of new data in the form of text, recording an exponentially increasing share of human and corporate behavior. For financial supervisors, the…
- Building Climate Resilience in Asia: A Systems Approach for Smarter Decisions
Blog · 20 October 2025
The accelerating pace of climate change in Asia demands a move beyond traditional catastrophe models to a systems-based framework that captures complex, non-linear dynamics. A collaborative policy…
- The Euro Crisis Faces Three Possible Scenarios
Value proposition analysis · 8 August 2012
In his analysis of the eurozone crisis, Douglas J. Elliott outlines three possible scenarios for Europe’s economic future. The Happy Scenario (10% probability) envisions a gradual recovery through…
- U.S. Monetary Policy: Slowly Moving Toward the Exit in an Interconnected Global Economy
Report · 8 April 2014
This keynote address by Donald Kohn, delivered at a joint Bank of Thailand-IMF conference, provides a strategic analysis of the Federal Reserve's complex exit from unconventional monetary policies…
- Treinta y cinco años de crisis financieras recurrentes en América Latina: ¿Hacia un nuevo (y mejor) paradigma?
Report · 3 June 2015
This report provides a profound historical and analytical overview of Latin America's financial crises over the past four decades, specifically reflecting on the achievements and challenges of the…
- Building Resilience in the Financial System: A View from the FPC
Report · 10 September 2014
The report provides a comprehensive strategic overview of the macroprudential policy framework designed by the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC) to ensure long-term financial…
- Understanding the effects of bank stress tests: A Q&A
Report · 7 July 2019
The report provides a detailed evaluation of the impact of bank stress tests a decade after their implementation during the 2009 global financial crisis. Based on a research paper by Donald Kohn and…
- Stress tests: A policymaker’s perspective
Presentation · 5 February 2020
This text contains the formal remarks delivered by Donald Kohn at a Macroprudential Stress-Testing Conference hosted by the European Central Bank. Kohn identifies simultaneous, transparent bank…
- Are we seeing the demise of stress testing?
Report · 24 June 2020
This report provides a critical analysis of the Federal Reserve’s 2020 bank stress testing results, examining whether the central bank has moved away from the original purpose of this essential…
- Meeting the pace of technological change
Speech · 6 November 2019
In his 2019 speech, Nick Cook, the FCA’s Director of Innovation, explores how the regulator must evolve to match the "data revolution" transforming financial services. He argues that while…
- Financial Globalisation
Speech · 18 June 2006
In this seminal 2006 address, William R. White explores the profound implications of financial globalization for central bankers and financial supervisors. He posits that while the integration of…
- Global Round Table on the Year 2000
News · 8 April 1998
This 1998 press release documents a historic international Round Table hosted by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) to address the impending Year 2000 (Y2K) computer glitch. Co-sponsored by…
- Sound Practices: implications of fintech developments for banks and supervisors issued by the Basel Committee
News · 19 February 2018
In 2018, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) released its definitive paper on the implications of "Fintech" for the global banking landscape. This document marks a shift in supervisory…
- Quantitative Impact Studies: QIS 2 and QIS 2.5 history
QIS 2During 2001, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision conducted two major data collection exercises. The second quantitative impact study (QIS 2) gathered the data necessary to allow the…
- CGFS - Activities
The Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS) monitors financial sector developments and analyses their implications for financial stability and central bank policy. The CGFS reports to the…
- A risk-centric model of demand recessions and macroprudential policy
BIS Working Papers | No 733 | 11 July 2018by Ricardo Caballero and Alp SimsekPDF full text (893kb) | 64 pagesSummaryFocusWhen investors are unwilling to hold the economy's risk, equilibrium in asset…
- Basel Committee on Banking Supervision consults on measures to tackle window-dressing in the global systemically important bank (G-SIB) assessment framework.
News · 7 March 2024
The Committee is seeking the views of stakeholders on revisions to the G-SIB framework aimed at constraining banks' ability to lower their G-SIB scores through window-dressing. This will be achieved…
- Beyond Pilots and Sandboxes: Regulatory Innovation through SupTech Case Studies and Leading Practices
Report, News · 1 June 2025
New white paper examines suptech implementation beyond pilots and sandboxes. The Alliance for Innovative Regulation and Amazon Web Services have published this paper exploring how regulators can…
- Caribbean banking supervisors conclude XLII annual conference in Grand Cayman
Event · 4 June 2025
The Caribbean Group of Banking Supervisors held its XLII Annual Conference from 4-7 June 2025 in the Cayman Islands, themed "Financial Supervision: Strengthening Fundamentals in the Digital Age." The…
- Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) amplify contractionary effects of monetary shocks, Bank of Canada (BoC) paper reveals.
News · 7 August 2024
In response to a traditional monetary policy shock, introducing a zero-interest CBDC tends to magnify the contractionary effects. The explanation of these effects is partly because a zero-interest…
- Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) could contribute to financial instability, a Federal Reserve working paper finds
Report · 30 April 2024
A CBDC’s safer asset status, relative to private liabilities of the financial sector, may increase the financial sector’s vulnerability to destabilizing runs in times of stress, the authors say. A…
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