Foreign exchange turnover in Asian currencies grew faster than the global total between 2001 and 2004. Renminbi trading rose particularly strongly. Evolving expectations about the Renminbi seem to be joining the dollar/yen spot rate in exerting an influence on Asian foreign exchange markets....

Interest rate volatility, as implied by swaptions prices, rose in all major economic areas between 2001 and early 2004. The increase was particularly sharp for US rates and was more sizeable for short-term rates and swaptions with short expiration. Since the spring of 2004, US dollar...

A research conference on “The price, real and financial effects of exchange rates” was co-hosted in Hong Kong, on 28–29 August 2017, by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). This conference was the culmination of the BIS Asian Office's...

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) co-hosted a research conference on "The price, real and financial effects of exchange rates" on 28-29 August 2017 in Hong Kong. The event was the wrap-up conference of a research programme of the BIS Representative...

Ever more extensive global financial linkages are changing in ways that have significant implications for policy. Asia-Pacific countries have experienced a particularly rapid growth in financial flows since the crisis. Against this background, the BIS's Representative Office for Asia and the...

Understanding the global financial crisis and the stresses on bank balance sheets requires a perspective on banks’ international investment positions and how these positions were funded across currencies and counterparties. This special feature uses the BIS international banking statistics to...