89th Annual General Meeting

Sunday 30 June 2019 in Basel, Switzerland

Publications  |  Press releases   |  Speeches & presentations  |  Andrew Crockett Memorial Lecture |  FSI special session 

Annual Economic Report highlights

Watch highlights of the Annual Economic Report 2019, presented to BIS shareholders.

Press releases

Speeches & presentations

Time to ignite all engines

Speech by Agustín Carstens, General Manager

also available in DE, FR, IT, ES

Monetary policy frameworks in EMEs: practice ahead of theory

Speech by Claudio Borio, Head of the Monetary and Economic Department

Big tech in finance: opportunities and risks

Speech by Hyun Song Shin, Economic Adviser and Head of Research


The Andrew Crockett Memorial Lecture and panel discussion

Regulating banks in the era of fintech shadow banks

Lecture delivered by Amit Seru, the Steven and Roberta Denning Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business

Panel discussion 

Chair: Jens Weidmann, Chairman of the Board, BIS and President, Deutsche Bundesbank

Panellists: Alejandro Díaz de León Carrillo (Governor, Bank of Mexico) Thomas Jordan (Chairman of the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank), Lesetja Kganyago (Governor, South African Reserve Bank) Yi Gang (Governor, People's Bank of China)


FSI special session

video linkPanel discussion: Regulatory convergence: what are the missing pieces? 

Chair: Fernando Restoy, Chairman of the FSI

Panellists: Paul Andrews (Secretary General of IOSCO), Jaime Caruana (Board member of BBVA and former BIS General Manager), William Coen (Secretary General of the BCBS), Jonathan Dixon (Secretary General of the IAIS), Wilson Ervin (Vice Chairman in the Group Executive Office of Credit Suisse) and Elisa Ferreira (Vice Governor of Banco de Portugal)