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In short, such a BIS transaction with Moscow would represent a bridge loan to nowhere.
"The government has to understand that the costs of human spaceflight are far outweighed by the benefits - the benefits of inspiration and of exploration, " said Nick Spall, a BIS fellow and co-ordinator of the UK Human Spaceflight Campaign.
The scale of how much money American banks have at risk in the eurozone comes from a new BIS table of the actual and potential exposure of banks to most economies via cross-border loans and financial transactions.
Partly because of perceptions that the International Monetary Fund has become too powerful, governments are now considering a wider role for the BIS. Pakistan Finance Minister Sartaj Aziz says that the BIS could provide daily reports on the trading levels of each currency to give monetary authorities a better grasp of currency market movements.
Using unique alphanumeric identifiers for financial firms would improve OTC derivatives markets, make it easier for regulators to see aggregated risk, and, once systems were changed over, would simplify record keeping, improve operational efficiency for firms and eliminate a lot of reconciliation work, according to a report the BIS issued from the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems and the Technical Committee of IOSCO.
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Mr Garriott and Dr Sharman were given their pins in a ceremony at the BIS headquarters in London.
BIS. Chief among them is a gradual shift from bank lending to the capital markets, which has meant that banks carry less credit risk.
Viktor Gerashchenko, chairman of the Soviet Gosbank, in a statement during the BIS sessions said that the USSR had already secured an understanding from several Western central banks that it could raise hard currency in an emergency by pledging gold to be bought back at a later date.
The BIS recommendations could keep committees running for a couple of years while doing nearly nothing to reduce risk.
FORBES: BIS and IOSCO Dither on Requiring Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI)
However, under international rules negotiated by government representatives through the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), government loans fit into a special category that has a 0% risk requirement.
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Philippine Central Bank Governor Gabriel Singson, a key promoter of an Asian BIS, says that the idea needs to be discussed further in light of the economic crisis.
So when, on 20 March 1939, just after the Nazis marched into Prague, a message was sent to the BIS apparently by the Czech National Bank, the BIS duly passed the message on.
Still, although there are lots of discrepancies between what the banks say and what the BIS says, there does not seem to be a bias in a particular direction for Europe as a whole.
In a patent app made public this month, RIM's lab geeks describe setting up a proxy server right on the phone that would intercept the browser's web requests and bundle, compress, and send them to a gateway on the other end (BIS, we presume) that would know how to deal with the packet.
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This has prompted calls for heightened surveillance, including a wider role for the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Swiss-based central banks' central bank.
To put it bluntly, the "bridge-loan" (BIS originated or otherwise) envisioned by most G-7 partners, would represent a bridge to nowhere under current circumstances.
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).
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