The Financial Stability Board (FSB) Regional Consultative Group (RCG) for Europe met in Florence today. RCG members began by discussing current financial vulnerabilities, including global and regional macroeconomic and financial market developments. Members received an ...more »

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published  an Opinion relating to the risks posed by lack of preparation by financial institutions for the departure of the UK from the EU. In this Opinion, the EBA asks Competent Authorities to ensure that financial institutions take practical steps now to ...more »

AIFIRM (Associazione Italiana Financial Industry Risk Managers), tramite la propria Commissione Rischi di Mercato, ha risposto alla consultazione ...more »

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) today published two guidance documents to assist authorities in implementing its Key Attributes of Effective Resolution Regimes for global systemically important banks (G-SIBs). The guidance documents were issued for public consultation in November 2017 and ...more »

The European Central Bank (ECB) published the consolidated banking data at the end of December. The annual CBD statistics cover relevant information required for the analysis of the EU banking sector, covering a broader set of data than the quarterly release. The end-December 2017 data refer to ...more »

La Banca d'Italia ha sottoposto in consultazione le bozze del sesto aggiornamento alle modifiche del provvedimento “Il bilancio degli intermediari IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) diversi dagli intermediari bancari” (2017) ...more »

Il 14 giugno, la Banca d'Italia ha posto in pubblica consultazione la revisione della disciplina delle obbligazioni bancarie garantite (OBG). Prima di queste modifiche, l’emissione di OBG (covered bonds) era consentita ai gruppi bancari aventi, al momento dell’emissione, i ...more »

In November 2015 the Financial Stability Board (FSB) issued a new standard on the adequacy of total loss-absorbing and recapitalisation capacity for Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs) in resolution (‘the TLAC standard’). The main principle upon which the entire TLAC standard is built is that ...more »

The Bank of International Settlement (BIS) quarterly review this June focused on the CDS market, ten years the CDS "Bangs". The CDS Bangs were the first real attempt to build a Standardized CDS market, to face this market's shortcomings, which were fully unveiled by the Great Financial Crisis. Many authors (see [2] and ...more »