Financial Stability Board

Enforcement

FSB Issues Recommendations on Compensation Data Reporting

By Editors | 08/05/2018

Proposed data sets include questions for determining whether governance processes appropriately use compensation and incentive systems to promote good conduct, remediate undesirable conduct and support identification of emerging misconduct risk.

Market Infrastructure

Singapore to Mandate Central Clearing of OTC Derivatives

By Editors | 02/05/2018

Mandatory clearing to apply to SGD and USD fixed-floating interest rate swaps; applicable to banks with OTC derivatives exceeding SGD20 bn.

Market Infrastructure

FSB Publishes Second UPI Governance Consultation

By JP Reimann | 27/04/2018

Consultation covers fee models and cost recovery, intellectual property, standardisation, competition among UPI service providers, arrangements for UPI reference data library.

Enforcement

FSB Publishes Toolkit on Combatting Misconduct

By Editors | 24/04/2018

Toolkit offers options on standards and codes of behavior, measures related to wholesale market conduct, guidance on compensation, and tools for strengthening governance.

Market Infrastructure

CPMI-IOSCO Publish Multi CCP Stress Testing Framework

By Editors | 12/04/2018

Framework supports stress tests examining potential macro-level impact of common stress event affecting multiple CCPs to gauge interdependencies between markets, CCPs and other entities.

Capital / Liquidity

Singapore Bank Resolution Regime Favours Bailouts Over Credit Bail-ins – Moody’s

By Garima Chitkara | 05/04/2018

Singapore regulations favour bailouts over creditor bail-ins as bail-in buffers only comprise 1-2% of Singapore bank assets, says Moody’s.

AML / KYC

Supervisory Flaws Hurting Remittance Providers – FSB

By Manesh Samtani | 19/03/2018

Report says AML/CTF and other supervisory shortfalls limit remittance providers’ access to banking services; makes 19 recommendations to address barriers.

AML / KYC

FSB Reports Progress on Correspondent Banking Decline

By Manesh Samtani | 19/03/2018

Report discusses strengthening due diligence tools to support correspondent banking relationships and improved monitoring.

Fintech / Regtech

BIS, CPMI Report Outlines Dangers of Central Bank Digital Currencies

By Manesh Samtani | 14/03/2018

Central bank-issued digital currencies can enhance payments, settlement, efficiency; but financial stability implications warrant consideration.