Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Institution: Financial Stability Institute
Abbreviation: FSI
Type: Public
Founded: 1999
Members Total: not applicable
Membership in: not applicable
Membership of: not applicable
Description: The Bank for International Settlements and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision jointly created the Financial Stability Institute (FSI) in 1999 to assist financial sector supervisors around the world in improving and strengthening their ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Institution: Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics
Abbreviation: IFC
Type: Public
Founded: 1997
Members Total: 61 Central Banks, Centre for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA), Central American Monetary Council (SECMCA)
Membership in: Institute of International Statistics (ISI)
Membership of:
Description: The Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics (IFC) is a forum of central ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Institution: Committee on the Global Financial System
Abbreviation: CGFS
Type: Public
Founded: 1971
Members Total:
Membership in: FSF
Membership of: ECB
Description: The Committee has a mandate to identify and assess potential sources of stress in global financial markets, to further the understanding of the structural underpinnings of financial markets, and to promote improvements to the ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Institution: Committee on Payment and Settlement System
Abbreviation: CPSS
Type: Public
Founded:
Members Total:
Membership in: FSF
Membership of: ECB
Description:
Working Group: Sub-Group on Foreign Exchange Settlement Risk, Working group on clearing and settlement arrangements for OTC derivatives, Working group on system interdependencies
Outreach: The Committee has developed relationships with many non-CPSS central banks in ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Institution: International Association of Deposit Insurers
Abbreviation: IADI
Type: Public
Founded: 2000
Members Total: 50 (Member Directory)
Membership in:
Membership of:
Description:
The International Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI) is a separate legal entity domiciled at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland. IADI was created following the work of the study and working groups ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Institution: Joint Forum
Abbreviation: JF
Type: Public
Founded: 1996
Members Total: 3
Membership in:
Membership of: BCBS, IOSCO, IAIS
Description:
Working Group: Risk Assessment and Capital; Conglomerate Supervision; Customer Suitability.
Outreach:
Reporting to:
Website:http://www.bis.org/bcbs/jointforum.htm
Highest Organ: The Joint Forum usually meets three times per year.
Chair: John C Dugan, Comptroller of the Currency, United States
Seat: Basel
Function: To discuss regulation ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Institution: Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
Abbreviation: BCBS
Type: Public
Founded: 1974
Members Total: 13
Membership in: FSF, JF
Membership of:
Description: The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is forum for regular cooperation on banking supervisory matters. Its objective is to enhance understanding of key supervisory issues and improve the quality of banking supervision worldwide. It ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
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 ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Institution: Group of 10
Abbreviation: G10
Type: Public
Founded: 1964
Members Total: 11
Membership in:
Membership of: BIS, OECD, European Commission, IMF
Description: The Group of Ten is made up of eleven industrial countries (Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States) which consult and co-operate on ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Institution: Financial Stability Forum
Abbreviation: FSF
Type: Public
Founded: 1999
Members Total: 26 Countries with their Finance Ministers, Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision Authorities plus several international bodies
Membership in: none
Membership of:International Financial Institutions (IMF, Worldbank, BIS, OECD), International Standard Setting, Regulatory and Supervisory Groupings (BCBS, IASB, IAIS, IOSCO), Committees of Central Bank ...
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