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Technology is no substitute for trust
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Mag
28
2018
The General Manager of the Bank for International Settlement (BIS) Agustín Carstens, released an interview to the German Financial Newspaper Boersen Zeitung. The main object of the interview was trust, namely, what should be the best way to preserve trust in financial transactions. We report here an ...more »
Fintech and banking: today and tomorrow
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Mag
14
2018
The deputy governor of the Bank of Italy Fabio Panetta spoke about Fintech developement in the European Union. The definition of “Fintech” comes from the Financial Stability Board: Fintech refers to any “technologically enabled financial innovation that could result in new business models, applications, processes or ...more »
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Mag
14
2018
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision today issued the Capital treatment for simple, transparent and comparable short-term securitisations. This standard supplements the Criteria for identifying simple, transparent and comparable short-term securitisations issued jointly with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). The standard sets out additional guidance and ...more »
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IMF: Volatility Strikes Back
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Mag
14
2018
The bouts of volatility in early February and late March that spooked investors were confined to equity markets. Nevertheless, they illustrate the potential for sudden market moves to expose fragilities in the financial system more broadly. With central banks in advanced economies set to normalize ...more »
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Risk-reducing and risk-sharing in the EMU
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Mag
14
2018
The President of The European Central Bank (ECB) Mario Draghi, hosted at the European University Institute in Florence, tackled the topic of monetary union and its central role in reducing and sharing risks across European countries. The crisis revealed some specific fragilities in the euro area’s ...more »
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Mag
08
2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today its first liquidity assessment for bonds subject to the pre-and post-trade requirements of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR). ESMA’s assessment of the European bond market for the first quarter ...more »
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ECB: Financial Integration report
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Mag
08
2018
The European Central Bank (ECB) issued its annual report on financial integration in Europe. The report contributes to the advancement of the European financial integration process by analysing itsdevelopment and the related policies. Namely, the market for a given set of financial instruments and/or services ...more »
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Mag
08
2018
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published the complete report for the Credit Value Adjustment (CVA) risk monitoring exercise. The exercise asseses the impact on own funds requirements of the reintegration of the transactions currently exempted from the scope of the CVA risk charge. The results, in ...more »
BIS: Price Stability and Emerging Markets
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Mag
08
2018
The Monetary and Economic Department of the Bank of International Settlement (BIS) published a working paper assessing the issue of conducting a wise monetary policy in emerging countries. In particular, the focus is whether central banks in emerging markets should take systemic risk into account ...more »
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Mag
02
2018
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published its 2017 oversight activities report, adressed to the European Parliament. During last year, EIOPA conducted a number of activities that contributed to high-quality effective supervision, as well as overseeing the level playing field and appropriate application ...more »
