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    FRTB Will Turn Banks Away from Fund Investment Activity

    By Manesh Samtani | 13/01/2022

    The FRTB treatment of equity investments in funds is “excessively conservative” and could prompt banks to reduce their activity in the sector, ultimately weakening the market.

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    Policy Reforms Needed for Platform-based Financial Services: BIS

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 13/01/2022

    A BIS paper says platform-based business models can lower costs and aid financial inclusion, but they can also give rise to digital monopolies and oligopolies.

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    WEF Calls for Global Coordination to Address Emerging Risks

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 12/01/2022

    The climate crisis, growing social divides, heightened cyber risks, an uneven global recovery and competition in space were cited as key risks.

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    FSB Publishes Papers on Insurer Resolution Planning

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 12/01/2022

    The FSB requests feedback on two papers that seek to address issues for insurers related to resolution planning and interconnectedness.

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    DPRK Sanctions Evasion Not Being Captured by Regulation

    By Manesh Samtani | 07/01/2022

    Gatekeeper professions play an important role in facilitating North Korean sanctions evasion, RUSI says in a new paper.

    AML / KYC

    Trade Misinvoicing a Persistent Problem Across Nations: GFI

    By Manesh Samtani | 22/12/2021

    GFI says countries need to make trade misinvoicing illegal at the national level and strengthen law enforcement capacities of customs authorities.

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    ISSA Explores CBDC Impacts to Post-Trade Settlement

    By Editors | 21/12/2021

    CBDC is a critical and likely enabler for DLT-based securities settlement and collateral management, with stablecoins providing a possible alternative, the paper says.

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    ISDA Outlines Next Steps to Develop China Derivatives Markets

    By Manesh Samtani | 20/12/2021

    China’s draft Futures and Derivatives Law will remove a major barrier to international participation in China’s derivatives markets, ISDA says.

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    Global Debt Reached Record $226tr in 2020: IMF

    By Editors | 20/12/2021

    The debt surge has amplified vulnerabilities and constrained the ability of governments and the private sector to support the recovery.

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    NBFI Vulnerabilities “Broadly Stable” Year-to-year: FSB

    By Editors | 17/12/2021

    Largely unchanged measures of credit intermediation, maturity and liquidity transformation, and leverage highlight the rapid response and impact of official sector intervention.

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