Bank for International Settlements

Source Bank of England as published by Bank for International Settlements. 

Switzerland is also home to many international organisations including the World Health Organisation (WHO), the International Red Cross, several United Nations organisations, the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the International Olympic Committee QOC), the Bank for International Settlements, and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations (IFPMA). 

Statistics on the relative size of the European market for exchange-traded interest rate options are relatively easy to come by, and the Bank for International Settlement (BIS) publishes a regular breakdown of geographic activity. This is summarised in Exhibit 17.15, which shows how notional amounts outstanding on European exchanges have quadrupled over the 3-year period from 1999 to 2002. 

Optimizing their returns on regulatory capital, by reducing the need for capital to support assets on the balance sheet. Regulatory capital is the capital needed to be put up by a financial institution in accordance with the Basel rules, issued by the Bank for International Settlement. 

Basel Committee on Banking Supervision 2004, International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards. A Revised Framework, Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland. 

Bank for International Settlements (1978), Forty-Eighth Annual Report, i April 1977-31 March 1978 (Basle Bank of International Settlements). 

The OSS men, instead of twiddling their thumbs, decided to look around Heidelberg for traces of money. Someone had told them that where they found Schmitz, there they would find money. Schmitz had come up the hard way from a commercial school in Essen, the iron city, and had risen from bank clerk to staff member of the Kaiser s war machine. He had been a director of Farben s predecessor firm, Badische Anilin und Sodafabrik. Also a director of the Deutsches Reichsbank, he was thought to be the wealthiest banker in Germany. In world affairs he had gained considerable respectability as director of the Bank of International Settlements in Geneva. 

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