Bank for International Settlements

Lecture delivered by Gita Gopinath (Gregory and Ania Coffey Professor of Economics, Harvard University) on "Stablecoins and anonymous money", on the occasion of the Bank's Annual General Meeting.

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Panel discussion on the lecture delivered by Gita Gopinath (Gregory and Ania Coffey Professor of Economics, Harvard University) on "Stablecoins and anonymous money", on the occasion of the Bank's A...

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Pablo Hernández de Cos, Andréa M Maechler and Frank Smets brief the media on the main messages of the Annual Economic Report. Read more: https://bis.org/publ/arpdf/ar2026e.htm

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Pablo Hernández de Cos says economic pressure points pose risks to global growth stemming from vulnerabilities in the financial system, strained public finances and major supply shocks which are st...

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Frank Smets and Gaston Gelos brief the media on the main messages of Chapter III of the Annual Economic Report. Read more: https://www.bis.org/publ/arpdf/ar2026e3.htm

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Gaston Gelos explains how digital innovation – from tokenisation to stablecoins – can upgrade the two-tier monetary system while safeguarding trust in money. Read more: https://bis.org/publ/arpdf/...

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Morten Bech and Jon Frost explain the concept of tokenisation and how it can improve the international financial system.

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Project Agorá, a unique public-private collaboration convened by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Institute of International Finance (IIF), has demonstrated that tokenisation ca...

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The BIS provides extensive residential and commercial property price data sets, developed in close collaboration with central banks, statistical offices and international organisations worldwide. T...

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Hyun Song Shin summarises the March 2026 BIS Quarterly Review and, along with Gaston Gelos and Frank Smets, answers journalists’ questions about market developments, the state of the global economy...

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Matthieu Chavaz provides an overview of the challenges central banks face and the tools they can use to maintain clarity, credibility and accountability in the face of uncertainty. Learn more abou...

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Goetz von Peter, Head of International Banking and Financial Statistics, discusses the main findings of the 2025 Triennial Central Bank Survey. Read more at: https://www.bis.org/statistics/rpfx25.htm

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Hyun Song Shin, Andreas Schrimpf and Goetz von Peter discuss the analysis of the BIS Triennial Survey. Read more here: https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt2512.htm

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The BIS works with the central banking community to produce key statistics on the global economic and financial system, including historical data dating back to 1664. Understanding the past is ke...

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Hyun Song Shin summarises the December 2025 BIS Quarterly Review and, along with Gaston Gelos and Frank Smets, answers journalists’ questions about market developments, the state of the global econ...

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Trading in both FX and interest rate derivatives markets surged in April 2025, according to the BIS Triennial Survey. What drove these increases and what do they mean for the global financial syste...

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Gaston Gelos and Frank Packer discuss how the life insurance industry's transformation since the Great Financial Crisis has brought heightened systemic risks and regulatory challenges.

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Project Titus investigates how auction mechanisms and side-payments can enhance liquidity efficiency in real-time gross settlement (RTGS) systems. Read more: https://www.bis.org/about/bisih/topics/...

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Pablo Hernández de Cos speaks at the annual conference of Financial Street Forum 2025

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Goetz von Peter, Head of International Banking and Financial Statistics, discusses the main findings of the 2025 Triennial Central Bank Survey. Read more at: https://www.bis.org/statistics/rpfx25.htm

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