News
Mag
02
2018
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) released a toolkit that firms and supervisors can use to mitigate misconduct risk. The FSB’s work in this area follows widespread misconduct in the financial sector including the manipulation of wholesale markets and retail misselling. Such misconduct in the financial ...more »
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Mag
02
2018
Banca d’Italia ha pubblicato il primo rapporto sulla stabilità finanziaria 2018, che include anche l’andamento del mercato assicurativo. In sintesi, i rischi per la stabilità finanziaria appaiono mitigati dalla crescita robusta dell’economia globale e dal rafforzamento del settore bancario nell’area Euro. I rischi connessi con ...more »
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BIS: report on Fintech credit market
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Mag
02
2018
The Bank of International Settlement (BIS) published today a report on FinTech credit, that is, credit activity facilitated by electronic platforms such as peer-to-peer lenders. The report aims at shed light on the significant uncertainty as to how FinTech credit markets will develop and how they ...more »
Apr
17
2018
The European Commission (EC) and the European Central Bank (ECB) reported on the ninth surveillance program in Spain at the beginning of last week . The staff reported a satisfactory and persistent economic growth in all economic sectors, particularly in the banking sector. This sector benefits from an ...more »
Apr
17
2018
The Basel Committee’s final standard on The standardised approach for measuring counterparty credit risk exposures (SA-CCR) includes a comprehensive, non-modelled approach for measuring counterparty credit risk associated with OTC derivatives, exchange-traded derivatives, and long settlement transactions. The Committee’s objective was to develop a risk sensitive methodology able to ...more »
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Apr
17
2018
The International Organization of Securities Commisions (IOSCO) issued a report providing technical guidances to regulatory authorities, in order to assess definitions and formats of a set of OTC derivatives which are reported to trade repositories. Specifically, the report provides the guidelines for harmonizing data elements concerning ...more »
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Apr
17
2018
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Christine Lagarde approached the topic of crypto assets for the second time within a few weeks. One month ago, she expressed the possible drawbacks of crypto currencies market, focusing on the potential use for money laundering and the financing ...more »
Apr
12
2018
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision today issued a revision to the minimum capital requirements for market risks which is available for public consultation. Improvements to the capital requirements for trading activities are a key component of the Committee’s duty of reforming global regulatory standards in ...more »
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Apr
12
2018
The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) met in Frankfurt this March to discuss the latest accounts in monetary policy in Europe. The Council focused at first on the review of current financial and economic developments, and secondly on the proposal of new ...more »
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Apr
12
2018
The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) today published the Framework for supervisory stress testing of central counterparties (CCPs). The framework provides authorities with guidance to support their design and implementation of supervisory stress tests for CCPs. In April ...more »
