April 2, 2008 – 6:23 pm
- 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
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central banks,
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Organisations,
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