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Bank for International Settlements
4 developments involving Bank for International Settlements in 2 countries and bodies. The most recent is BIS: private credit lending to tech passed $1tn, with 46% of borrowers loss-making, 14 Sep 2026.
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- BIS: private credit lending to tech passed $1tn, with 46% of borrowers loss-making
Regulators now have a measured base for the AI debt worry: more than $1 trillion of private loans to tech, with 46% of borrowers losing money.
- BIS chief says the AI boom is now funded by debt and circular deals, and warrants caution
The head of the central banks’ bank has named circular financing and debt-funded capital spending as risks to watch.
- BIS Annual Economic Report devotes a chapter to AI and central banks
Central banks were told by their own bank that AI affects both their price and financial stability mandates and their daily operations, and that they need in-house data and AI skills.
- BIS Project Aurora finds shared machine learning detects money laundering networks better
Central banks tested whether banks could pool payments data for AI-based anti-money-laundering checks without exposing customer data, a question that bears on how compliance teams share information.