The Bank for International Settlements is an international financial institution which is owned by members' central banks. Its primary goal is to foster international monetary and financial cooperatio
BIS Tower in Basel
Belgian statesman Léon Delacroix (1867–1929) was an early promoter of the BIS and died during the negotiations to create it.
American banker Owen D. Young (1874–1962) played a central role in the conception and establishment of the BIS in 1929–1930
Bank of Italy Governor Bonaldo Stringher (1854–1930) chaired the BIS's founding meeting
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The Reparation Commission, also Inter-Allied Reparation Commission, was established by the Treaty of Versailles to determine the level of World War I reparations which Germany should pay the victoriou
Former Imperial Patent Office building at Luisenstrasse 33 in Berlin, the German office of the Agent General for Reparation Payments until 1930
Building at 18, rue de Tilsitt in Paris, the Agent General's French office 1925-1930