BIS Newsletter: AI, Bank CEO Compensation, And International Credit In Africa

Puriya Abbassi explains how private credit helped finance the post-2020 shift to the digital economy.

International credit to Africa has grown quickly since the Great Financial Crisis, reaching almost $456 billion by 2025.

FSI Occasional Paper: When machines attack: frontier AI
cyber threats and supervisory responses
Working Paper: Hidden by complexity? Measuring stablecoin, crypto and decentralised finance ecosystems

Working Paper: Maritime chokepoints and the global economy: evidence from the Strait of Hormuz The conflict in the Middle East and the subsequent disruption of traffic in the Strait of Hormuz have triggered an unprecedented shock to the global economy.

BIS Bulletin: High public debt, NBFIs and the risk of market dysfunction
Near record-high public debt levels and the growing role of non-banks have reshaped sovereign debt markets in recent years.

BIS Bulletin: Old workers, young machines – can AI and automation offset population ageing?
Economies turn to AI and robots to offset the macroeconomic consequences of an ageing workforce, but the ability to automate jobs depends on which industries are ageing.

Upcoming

7 October: Pablo Hernández de Cos speaks at the Istanbul Economic
Forum.
15 October: Ben Gully participates in an International Institute for Finance panel in Bangkok.
19 October: 2026 Green Swan conference in Manila.
20 October: Tao Zhang speaks at the Financial Street Forum in Beijing.
By 30 October: International Banking Statistics and Global Liquidity Indicators for Q2 2026.