Mr Henry used data from the Bank of International Settlements, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and national governments.
Its board of governors could be appointed by the G-7 or the Bank of International Settlements--or by both.
Jaime Caruana, the chief of the Bank of International Settlements, stated that the most realistic way to institute a global levy would be to implement a similar levy in Europe.
The first measure comes from the Bank of International Settlements, which found that if private debt as a share of GDP accelerates to a level 6% higher than its trend over the previous decade, the acceleration is an early warning of serious financial distress.
In 1984, when he retired as president of the Bank for International Settlements, he unburdened himself to reporters of his thoughts for the future.
Andrew Crockett, a former head of the Bank for International Settlements, thinks central banks should broaden the range of collateral they accept when they supply cash to commercial banks.
There is also plenty of information about Basel II on the website of the Bank for International Settlements.
So many funds had made the same bet that it "magnified the deleveraging process, " in the dry words of the Bank for International Settlements.
As well as being the head of the Bank of Canada, he serves as chairman of the Basel-based Financial Stability Board (FSB) and as a member of the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
Officials at the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Bank for International Settlements (the central banks' central bank) have given some support to the view that monetary policy should sometimes lean against a rapid growth in asset prices and build-up of debt, even if consumer-price inflation is low.
Even by the government's optimistic accounting, only Bank of China currently meets the standards set by the Bank for International Settlements, which thinks big banks should have capital equal to at least 8% of their assets.
Here are the trends, according to the latest annual report from the central bank's central bank, the Bank for International Settlements: a fifth of all European banks' assets were encumbered, or pledged to borrowers, in 2011.
For the past seven years he has been the chairman of financial stability institute at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland.
As Mr Borio at the Bank for International Settlements points out, many of the ideas around countercyclicality (setting aside more capital in good times) and macroprudential regulation (safeguarding the stability of the whole banking system as well as of individual banks) were oven-ready, having been worked on by a coterie of central bankers, academics and regulators for a number of years.
Not in Switzerland, which ranks with Japan as the developed economy with the highest level of cash payments, according to the Bank for International Settlements.
The likes of Robert Shiller of Yale, Nouriel Roubini of New York University and the team at the Bank for International Settlements are now famous for their prescience.
At one end are those, including the OECD and the Bank for International Settlements, who give warning that a prolonged period of ultra-low interest rates risks inflation and resurgent risk-taking (see article).
The European Monetary Institute opened its doors in Frankfurt under the directorship of Alexandre Lamfalussy, a Belgian who had previously run the Bank for International Settlements.
In recent years they have been especially keen to raise their holdings of sterling deposits, according to a new report by the Bank for International Settlements.
The IMF, World Bank and key regulatory agencies like the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) based in Basel should establish internationally agreed codes of best practices on monetary, financial and fiscal policy and corporate governance.
On average, banks have capital equivalent to nearly 18% of their risk-weighted assets more than double the minimum specified by the Bank for International Settlements.
Bernie Fraser, a former governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, has even proposed creating a new regional central bank for central bankers, rather like the Bank for International Settlements in Basle.
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