News
Nov
16
2018
The Financial Stability board (FSB) welcomes the publication today of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) consultation document on a proposed holistic framework for the assessment and mitigation of systemic risk in the insurance sector. It sets out the Activities-Based Approach for sector-wide risk monitoring and management, as ...more »
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IOSCO seeks feedback on proposed framework for assessing leverage in investment funds
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Nov
16
2018
The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) is requesting feedback on a proposed framework to help measure leverage used by investment funds which in some circumstances could pose financial stability risks. The proposed framework, outlined in IOSCO Report: Leverage, comprises a two-step ...more »
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Nov
16
2018
A key element of the Basel Committee’s post-crisis Basel III reforms is the introduction of a leverage ratio requirement. The leverage ratio complements the risk-based capital requirements by providing a safeguard against unsustainable levels of leverage and by mitigating gaming and model risk across both ...more »
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Nov
10
2018
Mr Hyun Song Shin, Economic Adviser and Head of Research of the Bank for International Settlement (BIS), examines the liquidity properties of decentralised payment systems in an economic model of payments, in which the cost of credit to finance payments enters explicitly. Payment systems built around ...more »
Nov
10
2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) issued a Public Statement in order to raise market participants’ awareness on the readiness of credit rating agencies (CRAs) and trade repositories (TRs) for the possibility of no agreement being reached in the context of the United Kingdom ...more »
FSB: SME financing, the use of SupTech and RegTech, and implementation of the Net Stable Funding Ratio
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Nov
10
2018
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) Regional Consultative Group (RCG) for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) met in Istanbul today at a meeting hosted by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey. Members of the FSB RCG MENA received an update on the ...more »
ECB: Monetary policy and climate change
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Nov
10
2018
Benoît Cœuré, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB spoke of the connection between monetary policy and climate changes at the conference on “Scaling up Green Finance: The Role of Central Banks”, organised by the Network for Greening the Financial System, the Deutsche Bundesbank and ...more »
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Nov
02
2018
The Basel Committee is publishing the fifteenth progress report on adoption of the Basel regulatory framework, October 2018. The report sets out the adoption status of Basel III standards for each Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) member jurisdiction as of end-September 2018. In 2012, ...more »
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Nov
02
2018
The European Banking Authority (EBA) publishes today its final “Guidelines on management of non-performing and forborne exposures”. The Guidelines, developed in accordance with the European Council Action Plan, aim to ensure that credit institutions have adequate prudential tools and frameworks in place to manage effectively their ...more »
Nov
02
2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today made available new data for bonds subject to the pre- and post-trade requirements of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR) through its data register. ESMA will start today to make available ...more »
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