Capital markets
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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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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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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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
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
06
2018
The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) published today its recommendations for improving the information on secondary corporate bond markets available to both regulators and the public. The recommendations seek to ensure that regulators have better access to information so they can ...more »
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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 »
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Institutional investors’ shareholdings in large European non-financial listed companies
di Francesco Fancello e Nadia Linciano
Posted in: Articolo
Feb
19
2018
Institutional investors play a key role in financial markets’ development. They represent the world’s largest source of equity capital and contribute to both efficiency and modernization of the allocative mechanisms of a financial system. Moreover, active institutional investors may foster an improvement in corporate governance ...more »
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