G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors committed to avoiding any premature withdrawal of Covid-19 support measures, in line with the FSB’s recommendations.
April 12, 2021As public support is phased out, the ability of banks and non-bank financial institutions to bear risks and provide financing will be critical, the FSB says.
April 7, 2021Indicators of systemic risk and moral hazard moved in the right direction, suggesting that market participants view these reforms as credible, the FSB says.
April 3, 2021The FSB says it will produce an assessment of initial lessons learned from the pandemic and a report on the factors needed for an orderly unwinding of support measures.
February 26, 2021Most G-SIBs are estimated to already meet the final 2022 minimum external TLAC requirement, and the market has so far absorbed issuance without difficulty.
November 19, 2020The pandemic raised questions of whether the flexibility provided in the Basel framework is actually used by FIs, for example in the case of bank capital and liquidity buffers.
November 16, 2020The G20 finance ministers and central bank governors have agreed to extend debt relief for low-income countries for six months, and welcomed efforts by the FSB and FATF.
October 15, 2020The rapid and coordinated policy response to Covid-19 has underlined policymakers’ awareness of harmful effects of market fragmentation, the FSB says.
October 15, 2020Some characteristics of the TBTF challenge are specific to Asia, but these may be intractable from ‘winner-takes-all’ capitalism and national interests, writes industry veteran Jamie Lloyd Evans.
September 24, 2020Industry veteran Jamie Lloyd Evans discusses Basel III in light of concerns regarding capital adequacy and bank lending, and offers some thoughts on potential design improvements to the capital framework.
August 16, 2020