News
Mar
14
2018
The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and the Markets Committee at the Bank of International Settlement (BIS) issued a report resuming the major entanglements of digital currencies on central banking. The possibility of issuing digital currencies must be supplemented by a careful weigh of ...more »
Mar
11
2018
The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched a consultation on a draft set of guidelines to properly manage non-performing exposures (NPEs), with a particular focus on non-performing loans (NPLs). The crisis left as its legacy a considerable amount of non-performing loans in banks’ balance sheets. Furthermore, ...more »
Mar
11
2018
The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) for securities (ESMA), banking (EBA), and insurance and pensions (EIOPA) issued a pan-EU report to warn consumers on the risks of buying virtual currencies. The ESAs’main concern is the increasing demand of virtual currencies by etherogeneous customers, often unaware of ...more »
Mar
07
2018
The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) is seeking feedback on its proposed recommendations to assist trading venues and regulatory authorities in the implementation of mechanisms to manage extreme volatility. Extreme volatility in securities markets can undermine IOSCO’s objective of ensuring that ...more »
Tagged width: capital markets, iosco
Mar
07
2018
La Bank of International Settlement (BIS) ha pubblicato il nuovo report sull’esercizio di monitoring del comitato di Basilea III. L’esercizio si basa sui dati forniti da un totale di 193 banche, incluse 106 gruppi bancari internazionali, questi ultimi definiti come “Gruppo 1” e caratterizzati da ...more »
Tagged width: banking, basel commitee
Mar
07
2018
La European Banking Authority (EBA) ha pubblicato il suo primo Report sull’educazione finanziaria, che copre il biennio 2016/17. Il Report rappresenta un’occasione di condividere esperienze per le autorità nazionali degli Stati membri, ed un’occasione di procedere appoggiandosi ad una solida base di partenza per i promotori ...more »
Tagged width: EBA, educazione finanziaria
Mar
07
2018
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published the monitoring report on shadow banking for 2017. The FSB provides a broad definition of “shadow banking” as “credit intermediation involving entities outside the regular banking system”. This intermediation, when appropriately managed, provides a reliable funding option for real ...more »
Feb
26
2018
Benoit Coeuré, member of the executive board of the ECB, addressed the annual US Monetary Policy Forum which took place in New York on February, 23rd. Coeuré focused on assets purchase programme, which reached unprecedently high levels in recent years. Particularly, he addresses the question on whether ...more »
Tagged width: Colozza Tommaso, politica monetaria
Feb
26
2018
The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) today is proposing a set of guidances to help addressing conflicts of interest (and consequent misconduct risks) that may arise during the equity capital raising process. Conflicts of interest stemming from the role of intermediaries can threaten the integrity ...more »
Tagged width: banking
Feb
26
2018
Fernando Restoy, chairman of the Financial Stability Institute (FSI) at the Bank of International Settlement, pointed out the near-future challenges for regulators in view of the post-crisis development of the banking sector. The crisis inflated public debt in advanced economies, and increased also the level ...more »
Tagged width: banking, Colozza Tommaso
