Financial Stability, Governance, Prudential

How the BIS overstates the risk of FX swaps

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The Bank for International Settlements is concerned about foreign exchange contracts, warning last year that they amounted to huge, growing off-balance sheet dollar debts in the financial system.

Fresh analysis from Risky Finance shows that the growth is concentrated in a handful of US banks, ...

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