Claudio Borio is Head of the Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank for International Settlements. Stijn Claessens is Head of Financial Stability Policy and Deputy Head of the Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank for International Settlements. Piet Clement is historian at the Bank for International Settlements. He is a member of the Academic Council of the European Association for Banking and Financial History. Robert N. McCauley was a senior economist and adviser at the Bank for International Settlements from 1994 until his retirement in 2019. Hyun Song Shin is Economic Adviser and Head of Research at the Bank for International Settlements.

'The Bank for International Settlements, the most 'secretive' of international financial institutions, is where the central bankers of the world have their most open and confidential discussions. A distinctive trait of the BIS, throughout its history, has been its attention to financial stability. Taking a BIS perspective, this book offers unique insights into the history of the post Bretton Woods international monetary and financial system. A must-read.' Ivo Maes, National Bank of Belgium and University of Louvain

• List of graphs and tables; List of contributors; Foreword Agustín Carstens; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms; Introduction Claudio Borio, Stijn Claessens, Piet Clement, Robert N. McCauley and Hyun Song Shin; 1. The BIS and the European monetary experiment Harold James; 2. The governance of the Bank for International Settlements, 1973–2020 Catherine R. Schenk; The BIS in pictures, 1973–2020; 3. A theory of everything: a historically grounded understanding of soft law – and the BIS Chris Brummer; 4. Tower of contrarian thinking: how the BIS helped reframe understandings of financial stability Andrew Baker; 5. Exchange rates, capital flows and the financial cycle: on the origins of the BIS view Barry Eichengreen; 6. The Bank for International Settlements: if it didn't exist, it would have to be invented (an insider's view) William C. Dudley; Annex 1. BIS chronology; Annex 2. BIS-based committees: membership, chairs and secretaries, 1962–2020; Annex 3. BIS balance sheet, 1980–2019; Annex 4. Current and former functionaries of the BIS board of directors and BIS management, 1973–2020; Annex 5. Shareholding members of the BIS as on 1 July 2020; Note on sources; Bibliography; Index.

Claudio Borio is Head of the Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank for International Settlements. Stijn Claessens is Head of Financial Stability Policy and Deputy Head of the Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank for International Settlements. Piet Clement is historian at the Bank for International Settlements. He is a member of the Academic Council of the European Association for Banking and Financial History. Robert N. McCauley was a senior economist and adviser at the Bank for International Settlements from 1994 until his retirement in 2019. Hyun Song Shin is Economic Adviser and Head of Research at the Bank for International Settlements.

'The Bank for International Settlements, the most 'secretive' of international financial institutions, is where the central bankers of the world have their most open and confidential discussions. A distinctive trait of the BIS, throughout its history, has been its attention to financial stability. Taking a BIS perspective, this book offers unique insights into the history of the post Bretton Woods international monetary and financial system. A must-read.' Ivo Maes, National Bank of Belgium and University of Louvain

• List of graphs and tables; List of contributors; Foreword Agustín Carstens; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms; Introduction Claudio Borio, Stijn Claessens, Piet Clement, Robert N. McCauley and Hyun Song Shin; 1. The BIS and the European monetary experiment Harold James; 2. The governance of the Bank for International Settlements, 1973–2020 Catherine R. Schenk; The BIS in pictures, 1973–2020; 3. A theory of everything: a historically grounded understanding of soft law – and the BIS Chris Brummer; 4. Tower of contrarian thinking: how the BIS helped reframe understandings of financial stability Andrew Baker; 5. Exchange rates, capital flows and the financial cycle: on the origins of the BIS view Barry Eichengreen; 6. The Bank for International Settlements: if it didn't exist, it would have to be invented (an insider's view) William C. Dudley; Annex 1. BIS chronology; Annex 2. BIS-based committees: membership, chairs and secretaries, 1962–2020; Annex 3. BIS balance sheet, 1980–2019; Annex 4. Current and former functionaries of the BIS board of directors and BIS management, 1973–2020; Annex 5. Shareholding members of the BIS as on 1 July 2020; Note on sources; Bibliography; Index.