La banque des réglements internationaux : les fonctions évolutives d'une institution financière et monétaire internationale de transition
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Abstract EN:
The bank for international settlements is an international economic organisation. The main objective of its creation was to find solutions to the german problem of reconstructions by cutting and trading the annuities to be paid by the defeated of world war. However, the origins of the banks are much deeper than that. Well before the conflict started, exceptional circunstances had sometimes induced the central banks to collaborate with one another. Morever, the setting up of an institution to promote monetary cooperation between central banks had been claimed in that time but vainly. This idea was finally carried out by the hague conference which was setting up an institution whose main objective was to make easier the collaboration between central banks. Today, the bank has got two main functions : first at all, it consists of assisting the member states currencies in difficulties. Secondary, helping the international monetary system. Because of that, it is today not only essential for the international financial system ; but also one of the most important insitution in the international monetary system.
Abstract FR:
La banque des reglements internations est une organsiation economique internationale. L'objectif principal de sa creation etait de rechercher des solutions au probleme des reparations allemandes en reduisant et en commercialisant les annuites a payer par les vaincus de la premiere guerre mondiale. Cependant, les origines de la banque sont beaucoup plus profondes que cela. Bien avant l eclatement de ce conflit, des circonstances exceptionnelles avaient parfois amene les banques centrales a collaborer entre elles. De plus, la mise en place d une institution chargee de promouvoir la cooperation monetaire entre banques centrales avait ete reclamee a plusieurs reprises a cette epoque mais en vain. Cette idee fut finalement concretisee par la conference de la haye qui mettait sur pied uns institution dont l'objectif principal etait de favoriser la collaboration entre banques centrales. Aujourd hui, la banque possede deux fonctions principales. La premiere consiste a assister les monnaies en difficultes des etats membres ; la deuxieme a venir en aide au systeme monetaire international dans sa globalite. A ce titre, elle est aujourd hui non seulement un element essentiel du systeme financier international, mais egalement un des piliers du systeme monetaire international.