Market-makers serve a crucial role in financial markets by providing liquidity to facilitate market efficiency and functioning. This report - prepared by a Study Group chaired by Denis Beau (Bank of France) - assesses changes in the supply of and demand for market-making services as well as...

This report - prepared by a Working Group chaired by John Clark (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) - examines the structure and recent evolution of the global trade finance market, and the interplay between changes in trade finance and international trade. In particular, it reviews the available...

This report - prepared by a Study Group chaired by Andrew Khoo (Monetary Authority of Singapore) - develops a central bank perspective on the regional integration of EME banking systems and financial markets, assesses the drivers of these developments, and draws broad conclusions for...

This report documents a series of enhancements of the BIS international banking statistics (IBS) that have recently been endorsed by the Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS) and are designed to make significant and long-lasting improvements to the IBS. The report provides a short...

The demand for high-quality assets that can be used as collateral will increase due to a number of key regulatory reforms. This comes on top of greater demand for collateral assets through increased reliance by banks on collateralised funding, particularly in Europe. While this can lead to...

ABSTRACT This report is the result of a coordinated research effort by the central banks of Canada, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States and the Bank for International Settlements on the determinants of market liquidity and on how central banks and other public authorities...

Preface This volume contains papers produced for the Euro-currency Standing Committee in a joint effort by researchers at several central banks. The papers address measurement of market risk, market dynamics, market liquidity, and the role that information plays in determining market outcomes in...

INTRODUCTION This note presents a list of general principles and more specific policy recommendations for the creation of deep and liquid government securities markets, (partly based on the findings of the Study Group on Market Liquidity under the auspices of the Committee on the Global...

Introduction In March 2004, the Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS) published a report entitled Foreign direct investment in the financial sector of emerging market economies (the Cumming Report). The report discusses how the surge in financial sector foreign direct investment...

Executive Summary The activities of large, internationally active financial institutions have grown increasingly complex and diverse in recent years. This increasing complexity has necessarily been accompanied by a process of innovation in how these institutions measure and monitor their...