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BIS – Bank for International Settlements

• Institution: Bank for International Settlements
• Abbreviation: BIS
• Type: Public
• Founded: 1930
• Members Total: 55
• Membership in: FSF
• Membership of: ECB
• Description: The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is an international organisation which fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks. The BIS fulfils this mandate by acting as:
  • a forum to promote discussion and policy analysis among central banks and within the international financial community
  • a centre for economic and monetary research
  • a prime counterparty for central banks in their financial transactions
  • agent or trustee in connection with international financial operations
• Working Group:
• Outreach:
• Reporting to:
• Website:www.bis.org
• Highest Organ: General Meeting
• Chair: Jean-Pierre Roth (Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank)
• Seat: Basel (Head office), Two representative offices in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China and in Mexico City.
• Function: Banker of Central Banks
• Standards: not applicable

Topics of this post: basel, bis, central banks, financial architecture, Organisations, public

See also

• IFC – Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics
• IADI – International Association of Deposit Insurers
• G10 – Group of Ten
• BCBS – Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
• JF – Joint Forum
• G22 – Group of Twenty-Two
• FSI – Financial Stability Institute
• FSF – Financial Stability Forum
• Project: Mapping the Financial Governance
• Intergovernmentalism in Financial Regulation

02. April 2008 by kasi
Categories: Organisations | Tags: basel, bis, central banks, financial architecture, public | 6 comments