Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Vice-chairman

* President and chairman.
** None.
*** Position abolished on 27 June 2005.

Vice-chairman

Name Nationality Dates
Raghuram Rajan[20][21]  India November 2015 – present

General managers

Name Nationality Dates
Jaime Caruana  Spain April 2009 – present
Malcolm D. Knight  Canada April 2003 – September 2008
Sir Andrew Crockett  United Kingdom January 1994 – March 2003
Alexandre Lamfalussy  Belgium May 1985 – December 1993
Gunther Schleiminger  Germany 1981 – May 1985
René Larre  France 1971–1981
Gabriel Ferras  France 1963–1971
Guillaume Guindey  France 1958–1963
Roger Auboin  France 1938–1958
Pierre Quesnay  France 1930–1938

Board of directors

Red Books

One of the Group's first projects, a detailed review of payment system developments in the G10 countries, was published by the BIS in 1985 in the first of a series that has become known as "Red Books". Currently the red books cover the participating countries on Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI).[22] A sample of the statistical data in the red book is shown in the table below where local currency is convert to US dollars using end of the year rates.[23]
Banknotes and coin in circulation (12/31/2015)
Per Capita Country Billions of Dollars
$9,213 Switzerland $76.31
$6,739 Japan $856.55
$6,550 Hong Kong SAR $47.98
$4,911 Singapore $27.18
$4,433 United States $1,424.92
$3,571 Euro area $1,210.42
$2,320 Australia $55.28
$1,708 Saudi Arabia $52.99
$1,641 Canada $58.78
$1,583 United Kingdom $103.09
$1,460 Korea $73.92
$872 Sweden $8.59
$800 Russia $117.05
$599 Mexico $72.02
$458 Turkey $36.06
$282 Brazil $57.75
$195 India $250.80
$113 South Africa $6.15
$1,558 Average/Total $4,535.84
The most notable currency not included in this table since 2009 is the Chinese yuan where statistics are listed "not available".
Sweden is a wealthy country without much cash per capita compared to other countries. Sweden has been steadily eliminating most of it's banknotes and coins over the past decades. According to the Red Books, the last year Sweden had more cash on a per capita basis than Korea was in 2013; United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia in 2012; Canada in 2008; Australia in 2006; Euro Area in 2002; and USA in 1992.

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