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GLOBAL ECONOMY: BIS JULY 2012

Central bankers’ speeches for 19 and 20 July now available‏

Press, Service (press@bis.org)

Fri 7/20/12

Central bankers’ speeches for 20 July 2012
now available on the BIS website

Már Guðmundsson: Fragmentation in the international financial system – can the global economy become one again?

Duvvuri Subbarao: Of economics, policy and development

Anand Sinha: Small is still beautiful and competitive – reflections on the growth of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in India

Ignazio Visco: Brief overview of the Italian economy and its banks

Central bankers’ speeches for 19 July 2012
now available on the BIS website

Prasarn Trairatvorakul: Financial crises and the future of global and Asian banking

G Padmanabhan: Issues in IT governance

Mark Carney: Summary of the latest Monetary Policy Report

All speeches from 1997 onwards are available from the BIS website at http://www.bis.org/list/cbspeeches/index.htm.

Communications

Bank for International Settlements

E-mail: press@bis.org

Website: www.bis.org

Phone: +41 61 280 8188

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Central bankers’ speeches for 18 July 2012
now available on the BIS website

Jens Weidmann: The financial assistance can only buy time but does not address the root causes of the crisis

Ben S Bernanke: Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress

G Padmanabhan: Global convergence of banking regulations and its impact on the Indian banking system

G Padmanabhan: Getting “IT” right

Duvvuri Subbarao: Statistics and statistical analysis in Reserve Bank of India’s work

Deepak Mohanty: Statistics in the Reserve Bank of India

V S Das: Leadership, performance and transformation through personnel management

Njuguna Ndung’u: Ongoing developments in the Kenyan financial sector

Njuguna Ndung’u: Financal services sector – steering the economy to the next level

Yaseen Anwar: Monetary policy framework in the SAARC region

Anselmo Teng: Development opportunity arising from cross-border RMB business and internationalization of enterprises

Gane Simbe: The role coins play in the Solomon Islands’ payment system

Prasarn Trairatvorakul: Economic and financial cooperation between China and Thailand

Ebson Uanguta: The impact of the euro area debt crisis on southern Africa

Ebson Uanguta: Towards a financially literate Namibian society

Zeti Akhtar Aziz: Participation of Japanese financial institutions in Malaysia

Jörg Asmussen: Building deeper economic union: what to do and what to avoid

Luis M Linde: Assessment of Spain’s economic situation

Yaseen Anwar: Developments of the microfinance sector in Pakistan

Central bankers’ speeches for 17 July 2012
now available on the BIS website

Már Guðmundsson: Iceland’s crisis and recovery and the crisis in the eurozone

Arde Hansen: Overview of Bank of Estonia’s first year of the euro

Zeljko Rohatinski: Restoring the luster of the European economic model report

All speeches from 1997 onwards are available from the BIS website at http://www.bis.org/list/cbspeeches/index.htm.

Communications

Bank for International Settlements

E-mail: press@bis.org

Website: www.bis.org

Phone: +41 61 280 8188

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Central bankers’ speeches for 13 July 2012
now available on the BIS website

Duvvuri Subbarao: Agricultural credit – accomplishments and challenges

Central bankers’ speeches for 12 July 2012
now available on the BIS website

Ivan Iskrov: Association of Banks in Bulgaria – 20 years

Dimiter Kostov: The world of finance is becoming more IT

Ivan Iskrov: Global and regional challenges to the economy and the financial system. Do we have working solutions?

Ivan Iskrov: Conflicts and complementarities between monetary and macroprudential policies

Subir Gokarn: Launch of the OTC derivatives trade repository

Philip Lowe: Bank regulation and the future of banking

All speeches from 1997 onwards are available from the BIS website at http://www.bis.org/list/cbspeeches/index.htm.

Communications

Bank for International Settlements

E-mail: press@bis.org

Website: www.bis.org

Phone: +41 61 280 8188

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Central bankers’ speeches for 11 July 2012
now available on the BIS website

Prasarn Trairatvorakul: Financing the Greater Mekong Subregion

Ardian Fullani: Building a sound and efficient Albanian banking system

Duvvuri Subbarao: Touching hearts and spreading smiles

Hirohide Yamaguchi: European debt problem and its impact on Asia

Central bankers’ speeches for 10 July 2012
now available on the BIS website

Mario Draghi: Hearing at the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament

Prasarn Trairatvorakul: Financial crises and the future of global and Asian banking

Choongsoo Kim: Monetary and macroprudential policies in the aftermath of the crisis

All speeches from 1997 onwards are available from the BIS website at http://www.bis.org/list/cbspeeches/index.htm.

Communications

Bank for International Settlements

E-mail: press@bis.org

Website: www.bis.org

Phone: +41 61 280 8188

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Central bankers’ speeches for 5 July 2012
now available on the BIS website

Ardian Fullani: Overview of Albania’s recent economic and financial developments

Tharman Shanmugaratnam: Ensuring strong anchors in our banking system

Central bankers’ speeches for 4 July 2012
now available on the BIS website

YV Reddy: Society, economic policies, and the financial sector

José de Gregorio: What does society expect from the financial sector?

Ignazio Visco: What does society expect from the financial sector?

Jörg Asmussen: Can we restore confidence in Europe?

Miroslav Singer: The role of creditors and debtors in the world economy

Anand Sinha: IT and governance in banks – some thoughts

Mugur Isărescu: Monetary policy during transition. How to manage paradigm shifts

All speeches from 1997 onwards are available from the BIS website at http://www.bis.org/list/cbspeeches/index.htm.

Communications

Bank for International Settlements

E-mail: press@bis.org

Website: www.bis.org

Phone: +41 61 280 8188

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

MONETARY AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE

MAS Content Updates [23/05/2012]‏

Tue 5/22/1

Monetary Authority of Singapore

MAS

Updates on 23/05/2012

News Room

Policy Statements/Speeches

“Developing our Capabilities and the Singapore Core in Financial Services” – Speech by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of Monetary Authority of Singapore at the FICS Annual Conference 2012

Developing our Capabilities and the “Singapore Core” in Financial Services Speech by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Finance, Minister for Manpower, Chairman of Monetary Authority of Singapore Speech at the FICS Annual Conference 2012 Marriott Hotel, 22 May 2012 Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director of MAS and Chairman of IBF, Distinguished Guests Ladies and Gentlemen 1 I am very happy … more..

L. JHA LECTURES: INDIA

“ORIGINS OF THE CHINESE STATE”: PHILIP KUHN BOOK

Origins of the Modern Chinese State 

Philip A. Kuhn (Author)

What is “Chinese” about China’s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire. Well before the Opium War, Chinese confronted such constitutional questions as: How does the scope of political participation affect state power? How is the state to secure a share of society’s wealth? In response to the changing demands of the age, this agenda has been expressed in changing language. Yet, because the underlying pattern remains recognizable, the modernization of the state in response to foreign aggression can be studied in longer perspective.

The author offers three concrete studies to illustrate the constitutional agenda in action: how the early nineteenth-century scholar-activist Wei Yuan confronted the relation between broadened political participation and authoritarian state power; how the reformist proposals of the influential scholar Feng Guifen were received by mainstream bureaucrats during the 1898 reform movement; and how fiscal problems of the late empire formed a backdrop to agricultural collectivization in the 1950s. In each case, the author presents the “modern” constitutional solution as only the most recent answer to old Chinese questions. The book concludes by describing the transformation of the constitutional agenda over the course of the modern period.

Review

“This is a work of the first importance, one that successfully attempts to reach both a specialist and a broader audience. . . . It not only offers new and provocative historiographic arguments, but also recasts the familiar outline of post-1800 Chinese history in consistently novel and refreshing terms. . . . Both audiences will be intrigued by its implications for contemporary Chinese politics.”—William T. Rowe, Johns Hopkins University

“Fluently argued and genuinely important, this work has value for specialists and generalists alike.”—David E. Kelley, Oberlin College

“Admirers of Kuhn’s own writings will find in this book a consummate summing up of decades of research in late imperial and twentieth-century Chinese history. The chapters move constantly back and forth, across the twentieth-century divide and over to European and American intellectual history, seamlessly meshing archival gems with insights from wenji, gazetteers, and other published sources.”—China Review International

“This is a small book but one packed with much erudition and insight. The Harvard historian, Philip Kuhn, is a master of his craft, filling page after page with the wisdom of his vast experience and expertise.”—Journal of Asian History

What is “Chinese” about China’s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire. Well before the Opium War, Chinese confronted such constitutional questions as: How does the scope of political participation affect state power? How is the state to secure a share of society’s wealth? In response to the changing demands of the age, this agenda has been expressed in changing language. Yet, because the underlying pattern remains recognizable, the modernization of the state in response to foreign aggression can be studied in longer perspective.

The author offers three concrete studies to illustrate the constitutional agenda in action: how the early nineteenth-century scholar-activist Wei Yuan confronted the relation between broadened political participation and authoritarian state power; how the reformist proposals of the influential scholar Feng Guifen were received by mainstream bureaucrats during the 1898 reform movement; and how fiscal problems of the late empire formed a backdrop to agricultural collectivization in the 1950s. In each case, the author presents the “modern” constitutional solution as only the most recent answer to old Chinese questions. The book concludes by describing the transformation of the constitutional agenda over the course of the modern period.

Product Details:

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• English  edition
• November 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0804742839
• ISBN-13: 978-0804742832

BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS FEBRUARY 10 2012: FINANCE IN ASIA

Central bankers’ speeches for 10 February now available‏

Press, Service (press@bis.org)

Fri 2/10/12

Central bankers’ speeches for 10 February 2011
now available on the BIS website

Yaseen Anwar: Role of financial institutions and capital markets in Pakistan’s economy

Kiyohiko G Nishimura: Asian markets at the crossroads

Mario Draghi: ECB press conference – introductory statement

Masaaki Shirakawa: Finance in Asia – banking business and capital markets

Zeti Akhtar Aziz: Asian market integration and financial innovation

All speeches from 1997 onwards are available from the BIS website at:

http://www.bis.org/list/cbspeeches/index.htm.

Communications

Bank for International Settlements

E-mail: press@bis.org

Website: www.bis.org

Phone: +41 61 280 8188

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Central bankers’ speeches for 10 February now available‏

http://www.bis.org/list/cbspeeches/index.htm

Press, Service (press@bis.org)

Fri 2/10/12

BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS NOVEMBER 3 AND NOVEMBER 7 2011: ASIA’S GLOBAL ROLE

Central bankers’ speeches for 3 and 7 November now available‏

Press, Service (press@bis.org)

Tue 11/08/11

Central bankers’ speeches for 7 November 2011

now available on the BIS website

Mario Draghi: ECB press conference – introductory statement

Daniel K Tarullo: The international agenda for financial regulation

José Manuel González-Páramo: The ECB and the sovereign debt crisis

Prasarn Trairatvorakul: The outlook for Thailand’s economy in the face of concerns about the slowing US recovery and Europe’s debt crisis

Central bankers’ speeches for 3 November 2011

now available on the BIS website

Josef Bonnici: Lessons from the recent past and the road ahead

Zeti Akhtar Aziz: Asia’s role as an important growth centre in the global economy

All speeches from 1997 onwards are available from the BIS website at:

http://www.bis.org/list/cbspeeches/index.htm.

Communications

Bank for International Settlements

E-mail: press@bis.org

Website: www.bis.org

Phone: +41 61 280 8188

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Central bankers’ speeches for 3 and 7 November now available‏

http://www.bis.org/list/cbspeeches/index.htm

Press, Service (press@bis.org)

Tue 11/08/11

BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS AUGUST 16 AND AUGUST 18 2011: INDIA

Central bankers’ speeches for 16 and 18 August now available‏

Press, Service (press@bis.org)

Publications, Service (Publications@bis.org)

Fri 8/19/11

Central bankers’ speeches for 18 August 2011

now available on the BIS website

Mario Draghi: Tension and new alliances – the currency wars
Patrick Honohan: Good times and bad for a globalised economy – macroeconomic policy lessons from Ireland
Njuguna Ndung’u: Launch of the Reconstituted Market Leaders Forum
Deepak Mohanty: Changing inflation dynamics in India
Mario Draghi: Italy’s path towards stable growth

Central bankers’ speeches for 16 August 2011

now available on the BIS website

Deepak Mohanty: How does the Reserve Bank of India conduct its monetary policy?
Anand Sinha: Technology in banking – in pursuit of excellence
Seiji Nakamura: Japan’s monetary policy and developments in economic activity and prices
William C Dudley: Job creation in the region
Njuguna Ndung’u: Sustaining transformation and innovations
Yoshihisa Morimoto: Economic activity and prices in Japan and monetary policy

All speeches from 1997 onwards are available from the BIS website at http://www.bis.org/list/cbspeeches/index.htm.

Communications

Bank for International Settlements

E-mail: press@bis.org

Website: www.bis.org

Phone: +41 61 280 8188

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Central bankers’ speeches for 16 and 18 August now available‏

http://www.bis.org/list/cbspeeches/index.htm

Press, Service (press@bis.org)

Publications, Service (Publications@bis.org)

Fri 8/19/11

BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS AUGUST 9 AND AUGUST 10 2011: JAPAN’S ECONOMY

Central bankers’ speeches for 9 and 10 August now available‏

Press, Service (press@bis.org)

Thu 8/11/11

Central bankers’ speeches for 10 August 2011

now available on the BIS website

Masaaki Shirakawa: Recent developments in Japan’s economy and the conduct of monetary policy

Alan Bollard: The role of banks in the economy – improving the performance of the New Zealand banking system after the global financial crisis

Central bankers’ speeches for 9 August 2011

now available on the BIS website

Jean-Claude Trichet: ECB press conference – introductory statement

K C Chakrabarty: Indian education system – issues and challenges

27 July

All speeches from 1997 onwards are available from the BIS website at:

http://www.bis.org/list/cbspeeches/index.htm.

Communications

Bank for International Settlements

E-mail: press@bis.org

Website: www.bis.org

Phone: +41 61 280 8188

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Central bankers’ speeches for 9 and 10 August now available‏

http://www.bis.org/list/cbspeeches/index.htm

Press, Service (press@bis.org)

Thu 8/11/11

ASPECTS OF OLD SHANGHAI

Old Shanghai in the 20th century:

China’s first aeroplane – 1909

Shanghai Volunteer Corps

Anti-kidnapping Soc. – 1912

The Communist Party ‘s 1st congress

The 1927 Communist Purge

The Shanghai War, 1932

Anti-Japan demos, 1935

The Japanese War, 1937

August 14, 1937

Chungking Underground

Eat, Drink & be Merry …

The 2nd World War, 1941

Orgy of Revenge – 1945

Capone’s armoured car, 1945

“No immediate threat”

The end

Cartoons of the day
Periodicals of the day
Quotable Quotes of the day
Excerpts from books and novels

New additions:

The Chinese Mind – Arthur Ransome
Pott history of Shanghai 1928(13-16)
Nitespot Namecards
Shanghai society? Snobbish? 1915
Sir Chaloner Alabaster
Wedding of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling
Pott history of Shanghai 1928(8)

Contents:
Introduction
Places
People
Cultures
19th century
20th century
Reading room
Old Maps
Gallery
Library

Business
Administration

More:

East India Trade – the Swedish Connection

History of China

http://www.earnshaw.com/shanghai-ed-india/tales/t-even20.htm

BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS JULY 7 2011: INDIA

Central bankers’ speeches for 7 July now available‏

Press, Service (press@bis.org)

Fri 7/08/11

Central bankers’ speeches for 7 July 2011

now available on the BIS website

Subir Gokarn: Mutual funds and market development in India

Duvvuri Subbarao: Statistics in the world of the Reserve Bank of India

Masaaki Shirakawa: How to address tail risks

Deepak Mohanty: Statistics in the Reserve Bank of India

Subir Gokarn: Striking the balance between growth and inflation in India

All speeches from 1997 onwards are available from the BIS website at http://www.bis.org/list/cbspeeches/index.htm.

Communications

Bank for International Settlements

E-mail: press@bis.org

Website: www.bis.org

Phone: +41 61 280 8188

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Central bankers’ speeches for 7 July now available‏

http://www.bis.org/list/cbspeeches/index.htm

Press, Service (press@bis.org)

Fri 7/08/11