BIS Latest Update March 2025: Lessons For The Americas, Extreme Weather And Fast Payments

March 2025

Lessons learned and challenges ahead

The inaugural Chapultepec Conference featured a keynote speech by Agustín Carstens and discussions on payment integration and monetary policy in the Americas.

Economic impact of extreme weather

Droughts, storms and wildfires can reduce economic output and temporarily raise food or energy prices.

Interlinking fast payment systems

Emerging markets and developing economies have made considerable progress in fast payment adoption; interlinking is the next step.

Global real house prices decline

Global house prices declined by 1.6% year on year in real terms during the third quarter of 2024.

Putting AI agents through their paces

For the time being, Ai agents are likely to serve as capable co-pilots that enhance the work of human operators rather than as autonomous agents that displace human workers.

More BIS publications

Media Release: Governors and Heads of Supervision endorse work programme of Basel Committee
At their most recent meeting, the Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision endorsed the Basel Committee’s new two-year work programme.

Irving Fischer Committee report: SDMX adoption and use of open source tools
Central banks are increasingly using the Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange (SDMX) standard to facilitate the seamless exchange, production and dissemination of statistical data.

BIS Bulletin: Digital innovation for small businesses
Tech-savvy lending improved credit access for some small and medium-sized businesses but is limited by structural factors.

Upcoming

11 March: BIS Quarterly Review released
13 March: Basel Committee on Banking Supervision meets
25 March: Agustín Carstens speaks at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business