This document discusses the need for macroeconomic and financial modeling tools at the EU level to effectively regulate the financial system according to G20 agreements. It notes that while EU laws have been established, the necessary tools and data for comprehensive analysis and reporting have not. It argues that better coordination is required between national supervisors and regulatory authorities, and suggests establishing a new global financial architecture and auditing regulatory regimes. Overall tasks outlined include improving the European supervisory framework, addressing procyclicality, and reviewing guarantee schemes and recapitalizations.
Financial Cartography - Center for Financial ResearchKimmo Soramaki
This document summarizes a presentation given by Dr. Kimmo Soramäki on financial cartography and mapping systemic risk and financial markets. The presentation discusses how existing economic models failed during the financial crisis and the need for better tools to understand financial linkages and systemic risk. It then outlines different mapping techniques like heat maps, asset trees, networks, and dimensional reduction techniques that can be used to visualize complex financial data and reduce dimensionality to aid decision making. Examples are provided mapping markets around the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Cidse paper on financial regulation nov 2012 final copiaManfredNolte
This document provides an overview of CIDSE's role in advocating for international financial regulation based on Catholic Social Teaching. It discusses four principles that should guide financial sector regulation: 1) ensuring the financial sector supports a real economy focused on human well-being and sustainable development, 2) preventing financial crises and mitigating their impacts, 3) promoting a just distribution of wealth and income, and 4) ensuring regulatory processes are transparent and accountable. The document then examines specific issues in financial regulation, including too big to fail institutions, bank capital requirements, derivatives, hedge funds, credit rating agencies, financial sector taxation, and shadow banking. It provides CIDSE's perspective on these issues and concludes with recommendations.
This document summarizes a research paper that studies the effects of financial structure and financial development on banking fragility using panel data regression analysis. The study finds that banking stability is enhanced in market-based financial systems, but that financial development can reduce stability. However, the fragility-enhancing effect of financial development can only be seen when accounting for financial structure. Thus, the research concludes that financial structure and development jointly influence banking fragility. The document provides context on the motivation and methodology of the research paper.
As the financial system becomes more complex, new methods to understand the inherent risks and dynamics are needed. Kimmo Soramäki will discuss how network analysis of large‐scale financial transaction data can be used to improve our understanding systemic risk. He will also show case studies how visual analytics and accurate data driven maps of asset correlations and tail risks can enable a stronger intuition of market dynamics.
An ad agency has filed a lawsuit against a trainee copywriter for writing a strange introduction about himself in his job application. The copywriter was unaware that he would get into trouble for his introduction. The spokesperson for the ad agency has decided not to comment on the incident.
First Splash, op 6 februari 2015, bij een gevoelstemperatuur van -12 graden Celsius, ga ik voor het eerst proefbadderen in de door mij ontworpen "Tanktub". Het gaat wel hoor!
User interface design creates digital experiences that allow users to easily access and navigate information across devices. A successful interface provides proper context and semantics, scales well, maintains a unified and holistic design, establishes a clear visual hierarchy, demonstrates elegance, has a shallow learning curve, includes innovative features, ensures accessibility, and has an aesthetic quality.
Financial Cartography - Center for Financial ResearchKimmo Soramaki
This document summarizes a presentation given by Dr. Kimmo Soramäki on financial cartography and mapping systemic risk and financial markets. The presentation discusses how existing economic models failed during the financial crisis and the need for better tools to understand financial linkages and systemic risk. It then outlines different mapping techniques like heat maps, asset trees, networks, and dimensional reduction techniques that can be used to visualize complex financial data and reduce dimensionality to aid decision making. Examples are provided mapping markets around the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Cidse paper on financial regulation nov 2012 final copiaManfredNolte
This document provides an overview of CIDSE's role in advocating for international financial regulation based on Catholic Social Teaching. It discusses four principles that should guide financial sector regulation: 1) ensuring the financial sector supports a real economy focused on human well-being and sustainable development, 2) preventing financial crises and mitigating their impacts, 3) promoting a just distribution of wealth and income, and 4) ensuring regulatory processes are transparent and accountable. The document then examines specific issues in financial regulation, including too big to fail institutions, bank capital requirements, derivatives, hedge funds, credit rating agencies, financial sector taxation, and shadow banking. It provides CIDSE's perspective on these issues and concludes with recommendations.
This document summarizes a research paper that studies the effects of financial structure and financial development on banking fragility using panel data regression analysis. The study finds that banking stability is enhanced in market-based financial systems, but that financial development can reduce stability. However, the fragility-enhancing effect of financial development can only be seen when accounting for financial structure. Thus, the research concludes that financial structure and development jointly influence banking fragility. The document provides context on the motivation and methodology of the research paper.
As the financial system becomes more complex, new methods to understand the inherent risks and dynamics are needed. Kimmo Soramäki will discuss how network analysis of large‐scale financial transaction data can be used to improve our understanding systemic risk. He will also show case studies how visual analytics and accurate data driven maps of asset correlations and tail risks can enable a stronger intuition of market dynamics.
An ad agency has filed a lawsuit against a trainee copywriter for writing a strange introduction about himself in his job application. The copywriter was unaware that he would get into trouble for his introduction. The spokesperson for the ad agency has decided not to comment on the incident.
First Splash, op 6 februari 2015, bij een gevoelstemperatuur van -12 graden Celsius, ga ik voor het eerst proefbadderen in de door mij ontworpen "Tanktub". Het gaat wel hoor!
User interface design creates digital experiences that allow users to easily access and navigate information across devices. A successful interface provides proper context and semantics, scales well, maintains a unified and holistic design, establishes a clear visual hierarchy, demonstrates elegance, has a shallow learning curve, includes innovative features, ensures accessibility, and has an aesthetic quality.
Suicide is defined as intentionally taking one's own life. Depression is often a main cause, as one feels pain exceeds their ability to cope. Warning signs of suicide include depression, talking about death, changes in behavior or mood, and a strong sense of hopelessness. A survey found most respondents knew someone who considered or attempted suicide, and many had experienced depression themselves. The document relates suicide to the themes in the book "Twisted", where a character considers suicide due to feeling uncared for by others.
The document discusses the color wheel, including its primary colors of red, yellow, and blue. Secondary colors are created by mixing primary colors: green, orange, and purple. Tertiary colors are mixtures of primary and secondary colors. The color wheel also describes hue, color schemes, color theory, pigments, color harmony, and how Sir Isaac Newton invented the color wheel while studying light spectrums.
This short document promotes creating presentations using Haiku Deck on SlideShare. It encourages the reader to get started making their own Haiku Deck presentation by simply clicking the "GET STARTED" prompt. In just one sentence, it pitches presentation creation using Haiku Deck on SlideShare's platform.
The document discusses various aspects of dating based on a survey given to students about their dating experiences and influences. It provides context about dating from the novel "Twisted" and explores how peer pressure, relationships at school, parties, and parental influences can impact dating decisions. Examples from the novel describe characters like Tyler grappling with peer pressure in their relationships with Bethany and navigating falling outs with friends due to their romantic choices.
1. The document discusses the banking crisis in the Eurozone and questions around the €720 billion stabilization fund created by EU leaders.
2. It notes the fund was created hastily without proper structures like a board or bank account and questions if the European Parliament will provide oversight.
3. The document also discusses the "wolf pack" of market speculators betting against Eurozone countries and profiting from declines in their stock markets and currencies. It suggests they may be trying to engineer a break up of the Euro system.
The document discusses the color wheel, including its primary colors of red, yellow and blue. Secondary colors are created by mixing primary colors, namely green, orange and purple. Tertiary colors are mixtures of primary and secondary colors. The color wheel also describes hue, color schemes, color theory, pigments, color harmony, and how Sir Isaac Newton invented the color wheel while studying the visible light spectrum.
Meta tags provide information to search engines about the contents of a webpage. This includes the title, description, and keyword tags. While meta tags play a smaller role in search engine optimization today, they can still benefit websites by allowing control over how pages are displayed and helping with search ranking. It is important to use meta tags carefully and ensure the keywords are relevant to the actual page content.
The document discusses ISDA's Standard Initial Margin Model (SIMM) methodology for calculating initial margin requirements for non-centrally cleared OTC derivatives. It describes how SIMM works by decomposing portfolios into risk factors and calculating sensitivities that are scaled and aggregated. Implementing SIMM requires financial institutions to consolidate trade data, choose a system to perform calculations, manage disputes, and import dynamic risk weights and correlations from ISDA. The changes require significant adjustments to businesses processes and systems.
COVID-19: Sustaining Liquidity/Funding Management and Treasury Operations in ...Boston Consulting Group
As COVID-19’s international spread has accelerated, markets have started to price in epidemic-related risks. This paper provides a four-step approach that can enable executives to quantify impacts and define mitigating actions, helping them tackle near-term (crisis management) and long-term (structural liquidity management).
This document discusses key upcoming dates and implementation challenges for Solvency II, the new regulatory framework for insurance companies in the European Union. It notes that while the original implementation date of January 2014 may be delayed due to outstanding issues, political negotiations are ongoing. It also describes new measures like the countercyclical premium and matching adjustment that aim to make capital requirements more risk sensitive. Finally, it outlines the extensive public reporting requirements under Pillar III of Solvency II and some of the criticism around complexity, costs and usefulness of the required reporting.
S26: Techsauce | A New World of FinTech Regulation: What the Future Holds (23...Kullarat Phongsathaporn
The document discusses trends in financial technology (FinTech) regulation. It notes that regulators must balance financial stability, consumer protection, and innovation. New technologies are transforming finance but also present risks. The document outlines regulatory challenges from technologies like blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and cloud computing. It predicts regulators will support FinTech through sandboxes and holistic frameworks while addressing issues like cybersecurity, data privacy, and cross-border consistency.
The document provides an overview of the financial system. It defines a financial system as consisting of financial markets, financial assets, and financial institutions. The financial system plays several key roles in the economy, including channeling funds from savers to borrowers, creating liquidity and money, providing payment mechanisms, and allowing for risk diversification. It discusses the components of the financial system, including financial assets/instruments, markets, and institutions. Financial assets are defined as providing expected cash flows rather than physical services, and having characteristics like fungibility and divisibility.
Ontonix UK provides business intelligence and corporate performance management services using complexity-based analysis. They measure the complexity and entropy of organizations, markets, portfolios, and systems to assess fragility and risk of crisis. This helps clients intervene early before issues arise to better manage growth and restructure appropriately. Their techniques also enable real-time monitoring of complex and critical systems like banks' IT infrastructure for early warnings.
The Future of Finance in 2022 - Blais, Chow, Mills, NormanJen Chow
This body of work on the Future of Consumer to Business Payment was prepared by Eric Leo Blais, Jen Chow, Jessica Mills, and Richard Norman in Fall 2011 as part of their Foresight Studio in OCAD University's Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation program.
Feel free to send questions or comments to @jenchow or jen[at]jenchow.ca. Thanks for reading!
This document summarizes the observations of the Senior Supervisors Group (SSG) on developments in risk appetite frameworks and IT infrastructure at major financial institutions. The SSG found that while most firms have made progress in developing risk appetite frameworks and IT infrastructure projects, more work remains to fully strengthen these practices. Specifically, risk data aggregation and integration of systems across business lines require further improvements. Effective implementation requires strong governance, resource commitments from senior management and boards of directors, and a focus on automation over manual processes.
Startups as the golden standard for economic development in Africa - is it a myth, or does it have a chance to become a reality? In the past 5 years, the world has been a witness to the booming startup economy in the developed world. Dozens of successful startups, from Airbnb to Uber, have grown to become multibillion dollar companies. This rise of startups is a logical extension of the learning and knowledge economy, where creative and innovative ideas become the main strategic advantage for small businesses. Startups come to replace larger companies and even government institutions while closing the existing product, service, and need gaps. For many "fresh" businesses, Ethiopia is an uncharted territory. Ethiopia has some remarkable startup companies and has even launched a startup academy for new entrepreneurs. However, these efforts are still too fragmented to create a startup economy - Ethiopia needs a new government policy to foster the growth of effective startups in future.
Startups represent a new standard of economic development in the 21st century. For decades, developed economies promoted an idea of small and medium businesses as a foundation for continuous economic growth and prosperity. Startups have become a new form of doing business in the global world where technologies, information, and continuous learning define the success of even the most ambitious enterprise. The global market has become too competitive and saturated. Only the most innovative and creative business projects have a chance to survive this harsh competition. Countries like the United States have already realized the dramatic potential of startup companies, providing policies that can harness the advantages of a startup economy and make these benefits available to everyone
Ethiopia is represented by a sample of 60 businesses, 4 accelerators, 6 co-working spaces, 3 organizations, and 5 leaders on the StartupBlink Global Startup Ecosystem Map.
The Development Bank of Ethiopia's (DBE) president, Yohannes Ayaleu (Ph.D.), announced last week that the organization had set aside ETB4 billion to support and encourage start-up innovators. The president announced that if new creative owners came to the bank and provided proof that the creative idea was theirs, the bank would do its part to turn their ideas into effective work in accordance with the bank's practice. He also noted that the budget could be raised if it were deemed necessary.
It should be remembered that the DBE previously said that it has put aside ETB10 billion to continue granting financial access to small and medium-sized firms. This announcement was made three months ago. In related news, since it started operating in May 2022, Michu, the Cooperative Bank of Oromia's uncollateralized digital lending product, has disbursed approximately ETB200 million in loan facilities to SMEs.
Indeed, it is a worthy to read article and read to be benefited.
with regards,
Principes des monnaies centrales numériques selon le G7Société Tripalio
Conclusions du G7 d'octobre 2021 sur les monnaies numériques et leurs principes d'utilisation et de déploiement. Ces conclusions dessinent les grandes lignes du Great Reset monétaire de 2025.
CIDSE paper on financial regulation nov 2012 finalManfredNolte
This document discusses CIDSE's role in advocating for value-based international financial regulation. It outlines four guidelines that regulation should follow according to Catholic Social Teaching principles: 1) Place the financial sector at the service of a real economy focused on human well-being and sustainability, 2) Prevent financial crises to the greatest extent possible and mitigate their impacts, 3) Promote a just distribution of wealth and income, and 4) Be the result of transparent and accountable processes that involve all actors in society. The document then examines specific issues like too big to fail institutions, bank capital requirements, derivatives, credit rating agencies, and shadow banking, providing analysis and recommendations.
The document provides summaries of regulatory news from February 2019 across multiple jurisdictions and topics:
1) It addresses upcoming issues with implementing aspects of EMIR Refit and discusses reports from ESAs on regulatory sandboxes and innovation hubs. Updated bank risk dashboards show improved capital ratios but weak profitability.
2) New standards for market risk are announced with a simplified approach for smaller banks. EBA and ESMA reports address crypto-asset regulations and need for an EU-wide approach. Another report finds investment costs significantly reduce returns.
3) Draft delegated regulations on sustainable finance and sector views from FCA are published. Guidance is provided on exposures associated with high risk and on ESG disclosure. Reviews
RegObs Special Report - Bankosaurus jumping on the asteroid - by A_Filtri & T...Chris Skinner
This document summarizes a report on new technologies that could disrupt banking and whether banks are prepared to evolve. It finds:
1. While new technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and quantum computing pose threats, banks could adapt by embracing these innovations rather than viewing fintech firms as "asteroids."
2. Surveys of European banks found most investment is in basic AI applications, and banks acknowledge the need to change but lack bold plans.
3. The report models how standard banking revenues could decline 30% from digital disruption, requiring 60% cost cuts, and argues banks could cut costs dramatically using distributed ledger technology.
4. By embracing innovations to slash costs, banks may be able to thrive despite
Suicide is defined as intentionally taking one's own life. Depression is often a main cause, as one feels pain exceeds their ability to cope. Warning signs of suicide include depression, talking about death, changes in behavior or mood, and a strong sense of hopelessness. A survey found most respondents knew someone who considered or attempted suicide, and many had experienced depression themselves. The document relates suicide to the themes in the book "Twisted", where a character considers suicide due to feeling uncared for by others.
The document discusses the color wheel, including its primary colors of red, yellow, and blue. Secondary colors are created by mixing primary colors: green, orange, and purple. Tertiary colors are mixtures of primary and secondary colors. The color wheel also describes hue, color schemes, color theory, pigments, color harmony, and how Sir Isaac Newton invented the color wheel while studying light spectrums.
This short document promotes creating presentations using Haiku Deck on SlideShare. It encourages the reader to get started making their own Haiku Deck presentation by simply clicking the "GET STARTED" prompt. In just one sentence, it pitches presentation creation using Haiku Deck on SlideShare's platform.
The document discusses various aspects of dating based on a survey given to students about their dating experiences and influences. It provides context about dating from the novel "Twisted" and explores how peer pressure, relationships at school, parties, and parental influences can impact dating decisions. Examples from the novel describe characters like Tyler grappling with peer pressure in their relationships with Bethany and navigating falling outs with friends due to their romantic choices.
1. The document discusses the banking crisis in the Eurozone and questions around the €720 billion stabilization fund created by EU leaders.
2. It notes the fund was created hastily without proper structures like a board or bank account and questions if the European Parliament will provide oversight.
3. The document also discusses the "wolf pack" of market speculators betting against Eurozone countries and profiting from declines in their stock markets and currencies. It suggests they may be trying to engineer a break up of the Euro system.
The document discusses the color wheel, including its primary colors of red, yellow and blue. Secondary colors are created by mixing primary colors, namely green, orange and purple. Tertiary colors are mixtures of primary and secondary colors. The color wheel also describes hue, color schemes, color theory, pigments, color harmony, and how Sir Isaac Newton invented the color wheel while studying the visible light spectrum.
Meta tags provide information to search engines about the contents of a webpage. This includes the title, description, and keyword tags. While meta tags play a smaller role in search engine optimization today, they can still benefit websites by allowing control over how pages are displayed and helping with search ranking. It is important to use meta tags carefully and ensure the keywords are relevant to the actual page content.
The document discusses ISDA's Standard Initial Margin Model (SIMM) methodology for calculating initial margin requirements for non-centrally cleared OTC derivatives. It describes how SIMM works by decomposing portfolios into risk factors and calculating sensitivities that are scaled and aggregated. Implementing SIMM requires financial institutions to consolidate trade data, choose a system to perform calculations, manage disputes, and import dynamic risk weights and correlations from ISDA. The changes require significant adjustments to businesses processes and systems.
COVID-19: Sustaining Liquidity/Funding Management and Treasury Operations in ...Boston Consulting Group
As COVID-19’s international spread has accelerated, markets have started to price in epidemic-related risks. This paper provides a four-step approach that can enable executives to quantify impacts and define mitigating actions, helping them tackle near-term (crisis management) and long-term (structural liquidity management).
This document discusses key upcoming dates and implementation challenges for Solvency II, the new regulatory framework for insurance companies in the European Union. It notes that while the original implementation date of January 2014 may be delayed due to outstanding issues, political negotiations are ongoing. It also describes new measures like the countercyclical premium and matching adjustment that aim to make capital requirements more risk sensitive. Finally, it outlines the extensive public reporting requirements under Pillar III of Solvency II and some of the criticism around complexity, costs and usefulness of the required reporting.
S26: Techsauce | A New World of FinTech Regulation: What the Future Holds (23...Kullarat Phongsathaporn
The document discusses trends in financial technology (FinTech) regulation. It notes that regulators must balance financial stability, consumer protection, and innovation. New technologies are transforming finance but also present risks. The document outlines regulatory challenges from technologies like blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and cloud computing. It predicts regulators will support FinTech through sandboxes and holistic frameworks while addressing issues like cybersecurity, data privacy, and cross-border consistency.
The document provides an overview of the financial system. It defines a financial system as consisting of financial markets, financial assets, and financial institutions. The financial system plays several key roles in the economy, including channeling funds from savers to borrowers, creating liquidity and money, providing payment mechanisms, and allowing for risk diversification. It discusses the components of the financial system, including financial assets/instruments, markets, and institutions. Financial assets are defined as providing expected cash flows rather than physical services, and having characteristics like fungibility and divisibility.
Ontonix UK provides business intelligence and corporate performance management services using complexity-based analysis. They measure the complexity and entropy of organizations, markets, portfolios, and systems to assess fragility and risk of crisis. This helps clients intervene early before issues arise to better manage growth and restructure appropriately. Their techniques also enable real-time monitoring of complex and critical systems like banks' IT infrastructure for early warnings.
The Future of Finance in 2022 - Blais, Chow, Mills, NormanJen Chow
This body of work on the Future of Consumer to Business Payment was prepared by Eric Leo Blais, Jen Chow, Jessica Mills, and Richard Norman in Fall 2011 as part of their Foresight Studio in OCAD University's Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation program.
Feel free to send questions or comments to @jenchow or jen[at]jenchow.ca. Thanks for reading!
This document summarizes the observations of the Senior Supervisors Group (SSG) on developments in risk appetite frameworks and IT infrastructure at major financial institutions. The SSG found that while most firms have made progress in developing risk appetite frameworks and IT infrastructure projects, more work remains to fully strengthen these practices. Specifically, risk data aggregation and integration of systems across business lines require further improvements. Effective implementation requires strong governance, resource commitments from senior management and boards of directors, and a focus on automation over manual processes.
Startups as the golden standard for economic development in Africa - is it a myth, or does it have a chance to become a reality? In the past 5 years, the world has been a witness to the booming startup economy in the developed world. Dozens of successful startups, from Airbnb to Uber, have grown to become multibillion dollar companies. This rise of startups is a logical extension of the learning and knowledge economy, where creative and innovative ideas become the main strategic advantage for small businesses. Startups come to replace larger companies and even government institutions while closing the existing product, service, and need gaps. For many "fresh" businesses, Ethiopia is an uncharted territory. Ethiopia has some remarkable startup companies and has even launched a startup academy for new entrepreneurs. However, these efforts are still too fragmented to create a startup economy - Ethiopia needs a new government policy to foster the growth of effective startups in future.
Startups represent a new standard of economic development in the 21st century. For decades, developed economies promoted an idea of small and medium businesses as a foundation for continuous economic growth and prosperity. Startups have become a new form of doing business in the global world where technologies, information, and continuous learning define the success of even the most ambitious enterprise. The global market has become too competitive and saturated. Only the most innovative and creative business projects have a chance to survive this harsh competition. Countries like the United States have already realized the dramatic potential of startup companies, providing policies that can harness the advantages of a startup economy and make these benefits available to everyone
Ethiopia is represented by a sample of 60 businesses, 4 accelerators, 6 co-working spaces, 3 organizations, and 5 leaders on the StartupBlink Global Startup Ecosystem Map.
The Development Bank of Ethiopia's (DBE) president, Yohannes Ayaleu (Ph.D.), announced last week that the organization had set aside ETB4 billion to support and encourage start-up innovators. The president announced that if new creative owners came to the bank and provided proof that the creative idea was theirs, the bank would do its part to turn their ideas into effective work in accordance with the bank's practice. He also noted that the budget could be raised if it were deemed necessary.
It should be remembered that the DBE previously said that it has put aside ETB10 billion to continue granting financial access to small and medium-sized firms. This announcement was made three months ago. In related news, since it started operating in May 2022, Michu, the Cooperative Bank of Oromia's uncollateralized digital lending product, has disbursed approximately ETB200 million in loan facilities to SMEs.
Indeed, it is a worthy to read article and read to be benefited.
with regards,
Principes des monnaies centrales numériques selon le G7Société Tripalio
Conclusions du G7 d'octobre 2021 sur les monnaies numériques et leurs principes d'utilisation et de déploiement. Ces conclusions dessinent les grandes lignes du Great Reset monétaire de 2025.
CIDSE paper on financial regulation nov 2012 finalManfredNolte
This document discusses CIDSE's role in advocating for value-based international financial regulation. It outlines four guidelines that regulation should follow according to Catholic Social Teaching principles: 1) Place the financial sector at the service of a real economy focused on human well-being and sustainability, 2) Prevent financial crises to the greatest extent possible and mitigate their impacts, 3) Promote a just distribution of wealth and income, and 4) Be the result of transparent and accountable processes that involve all actors in society. The document then examines specific issues like too big to fail institutions, bank capital requirements, derivatives, credit rating agencies, and shadow banking, providing analysis and recommendations.
The document provides summaries of regulatory news from February 2019 across multiple jurisdictions and topics:
1) It addresses upcoming issues with implementing aspects of EMIR Refit and discusses reports from ESAs on regulatory sandboxes and innovation hubs. Updated bank risk dashboards show improved capital ratios but weak profitability.
2) New standards for market risk are announced with a simplified approach for smaller banks. EBA and ESMA reports address crypto-asset regulations and need for an EU-wide approach. Another report finds investment costs significantly reduce returns.
3) Draft delegated regulations on sustainable finance and sector views from FCA are published. Guidance is provided on exposures associated with high risk and on ESG disclosure. Reviews
RegObs Special Report - Bankosaurus jumping on the asteroid - by A_Filtri & T...Chris Skinner
This document summarizes a report on new technologies that could disrupt banking and whether banks are prepared to evolve. It finds:
1. While new technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and quantum computing pose threats, banks could adapt by embracing these innovations rather than viewing fintech firms as "asteroids."
2. Surveys of European banks found most investment is in basic AI applications, and banks acknowledge the need to change but lack bold plans.
3. The report models how standard banking revenues could decline 30% from digital disruption, requiring 60% cost cuts, and argues banks could cut costs dramatically using distributed ledger technology.
4. By embracing innovations to slash costs, banks may be able to thrive despite
Pillar 2: operational issues of risk managementQuoc Nguyen Dao
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Crypto-Assets: Implications for financial stability, monetary policy, and pay...eraser Juan José Calderón
Crypto-Assets: Implications for financial stability, monetary policy, and payments and market infrastructures
Occasional Paper Series. No 223 / May 2019.
Abstract
This paper summarises the outcomes of the analysis of the ECB Crypto-Assets Task
Force. First, it proposes a characterisation of crypto-assets in the absence of a
common definition and as a basis for the consistent analysis of this phenomenon.
Second, it analyses recent developments in the crypto-assets market and unfolding
links with financial markets and the economy. Finally, it assesses the potential impact
of crypto-assets on monetary policy, payments and market infrastructures, and
financial stability. The analysis shows that, in the current market, crypto-assets’ risks
or potential implications are limited and/or manageable on the basis of the existing
regulatory and oversight frameworks. However, this assessment is subject to change
and should not prevent the ECB from continuing to monitor crypto-assets, raise
awareness and develop preparedness.
Keywords: crypto-assets, characterisation, monitoring, crypto-assets risks
JEL codes: E42, G21, G23, O33
This document summarizes a white paper published by DTCC that discusses systemic risks facing the global financial services industry. The paper identifies several emerging risks, including cyber attacks, new financial regulations, high frequency trading, counterparty risk, collateral issues, market quality concerns, liquidity risk, central counterparty concentration, interconnectedness, securities settlement challenges, business continuity risks, shadow banking, and Eurozone risks. It provides an overview of DTCC's role in mitigating systemic risk and the goal of promoting ongoing dialogue around further reducing risks to financial stability.
Dodd Frank Overview Eco Risk January 2011tabatangelo
The document summarizes the Dodd-Frank Act's impact on derivatives regulation, focusing on key issues affecting non-financial ("end-user") companies. It identifies three main areas of impact: 1) reduced market liquidity as regulations constrain dealers; 2) increased compliance burdens from new record-keeping and reporting rules; 3) effects of standardized margin and capital rules that may divert funds from long-term investments. The document provides an overview of new regulatory entities and requirements and how companies can prepare for changes taking effect in mid-2011.
Digital Assets in United States: All you need to know before the US regulatio...BlockZero
Still a work in progress, the U.S. Framework for digital assets takes another step forward these last weeks! And all you need to know about it is below in our new Thought Leadership signed by Marie-Chantal Leduc, Sabrina McNeil and Rodrigo Urcuyo
Digital Assets in United States: All you need to know before the US regulatio...
Ec G20 Tasks G
1. DISCUSSION PAPER
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
G20+
G20+ TASKS
CAPABILITY ISSUES
By Robert McDowell
Revised 3 times through to December 2009
RMCDBASIC@aol.com
3. Argument
All competent authorities lack macro- macro-
financial models at both state & EU levels! NOTES
To regulate at EU level requires tools, Central banks & competent state authorities have
models, data, that build on EU laws (CRD, conflicts of interest in carrying out different objectives
Solvency II & finance sector data etc.) We have (macroeconomic stability, prudential supervision,
the laws, not tools for analysis & reporting investor protection or competition).
required by EC & G20 agendas.
Worse (in EU) if those objectives are only those of state
As various measures of governments, policy makers (national interest, bailing-out of a big
bailing-
central banks impact all kinds of intermediary). Hence importance of EC rules, laws &
intermediaries (commercial & investment banks, guidelines.
investment & hedge funds, pension funds & insurers):
Financial system’s traditional 3-way division into
3- States & EC coordination can be cumbersome, with
banks, capital markets, & insurance was hundreds of bilateral & multilateral memoranda or
defeated by events; colleges of supervisors etc.
Defeating also VaR & capital adequacy models, Level 3 Committees (e.g. Cebs, Cesr & Ceiops), in
& exposing equity values (200% of banks’ total spite of excellent if limited permanent staff, depend
capital wiped out gross & more in share value of banks) wholly on their constituents members/authorities &
Asset swaps & capital injections reminded all have rigid tripartite competences (banks, securities &
that macro-bailouts are responsibility of states,
macro- insurance) - an obsolescent framework.
only assisted/ adjusted by EC authorities;
Bail-
Bail-out decisions are by central banks, In spite of progress, the system is unable to respond to
regulators, governments, who were supervising challenges of integrated inter-linked markets (no over-
inter- over-
the impaired entities; arching models exist). 2 urgent demands:
No lender of last resort or government had – Much better cyclical protection for investors, citizens, &
liquidity on scale needed but could create it by macro-economy
relatively limitless power to grow a state’s short-
short- – Dramatic improvements in regulation to redirect role,
term off-budget balance sheets (less so by ECB for
off- culture & flexibility of the financial industry.
Euro Area where states gave money market operations
to ECB).
ECB).
4. CONTEXT 2: EU-wide agreement without EU-wide forensics?
EU- EU-
To contain an early
But, who is
warning system on
Specifying
macro-economic &
Macro-model
macro-financial
toolset & data
prudential
for this?
developments
The Big Picture
Including legally
But, who is
binding mediation
Specifying
between national
Micro-data
supervisors &
format
regulatory
for this?
authorities.
The Small Details
5. COMPREHENSIVE ACTION PLAN
Is there a project management office for EC’s
G20+ comprehensive action plan Note: G20 tasks
Short-
Short-term immediate + longer medium term tasks listed grouped by ‘immediate’ & ‘medium term’ & by
term’
‘information’ & ‘actions’.
Two keys: (our phrasing)
keys: (our
Immediate tasks are mix of…
X A new global financial architecture Technical, regulatory & supervision infrastructure
new Bretton Woods system (addressing global imbalances), Economic scenarios for economic capital models &
Reporting to G20 & from G20 to G192 UN, Doha) Policy Audits of/by national & international bodies.
set up quickly by IMF (purpose: financial stability)
include emerging & developing economies (in FSF & IMF) Medium term tasks are …
Macro-
Macro-prudential oversight of global finance Reviews of effectivenes of all work done & remaining
tasks to be done by all bodies
Y Auditing regulatory supervisory regimes Over-
Over-arching role for Commission especially
coordination & new directives based on assessments
counter-
counter-cyclical finance (measures & standards) & other G20 Commission tasks etc.
asset derivatives clearing & transparency (financial markets
measures)
liquidity measures (instilling macro-prudential risk mgt.)
macro-
6. FINANCIAL RISK REGULATION AT EU LEVEL
This will change in EU – an enormously responsible task (at EC
Current crisis exposed poor organisation of level) to oversee how regulators & central banks’ roles swing
financial supervision (central banks, EU between fiscal & lender of last resort to policy-maker, &
ministers, & treasury authorities) even if they all strategic implementer (of what CRD & Solvency II & other risk
responded better than anyone expected!. management in EU ultimately mean in a financial & economic crisis).
Crisis questioned efficacy of “horizontal”
allocation of micro-prudential competencies
micro-
across states (fragmentation in US or single
regulator in many EU countries) & “vertical”
distribution of macro-prudential (systemic &
macro-
global liquidity) competencies, where only
national entities appeared to be in charge of
policy responses & of supervision (media
comment scarcely mentioned CRD or C-ebs).
C-
US - a mix of federal & state competencies
while only states supervise insurance;
EU - states led policy & agencies are (in
popular mind) only at member state level;
Euro Area - response was slower than in UK
& relatively smaller (where short-term treasuries
short-
–off-budget source of states’ short-term funding
off- short-
are vested in multi-national ECB).
multi- ECB).
7. ECOFIN TASKS (1 of 2)
delegated to Commission
“…until financial stability has been fully restored, actions
related to resolution & management of financial crisis
remain the top priority within the EU” – ECOFIN Nov. ‘08
MACRO-
MACRO-PRUDENTIAL Actions & Information
Improve European supervisory & regulatory framework, amending, &
updating existing roadmaps where necessary (most vital are roadmaps for Pillar II)
Improve supervisory framework & enhance Lamfalussy process (Mar 2009)
Strengthening risk & crisis management framework
Update recommendations on functioning of EU committees of supervisors
Consider legislative actions by end 2009
Pro-cyclicality (re. prudential & accounting rules) outline by end 2008
Pro-
Pro-cyclicality first report by March 2009 (finalised no later than mid 2009)
Pro-
Work to keep critical role at international level, in wake of G20 Summit/s
Review guarantee schemes & recapitalizations & submit recommendations
Modify national mandates of supervisors to take account of EU financial stability
(foreseen in CRD & Solvency II - Strengthen CRD & SolvII Supervisors’ tasks)
Ensure EU positions on new international financial architecture are well founded.
8. ECOFIN TASKS (2 of 2)
delegated to EU Commission
MARKETS STABILITY & MICRO-PRUDENTIAL
MICRO-
Actions & Information
Put into place a European oversight of credit rating agencies
Legislative proposals of Commission: gaining agreement s on these?
Improve transparency to restore confidence in financial markets (needs massive consultation)
Mitigate counterparty & op risks & improve transparency in CDSs market (bring on-market?)
on-
With CEBS report progress on transparency of fin. firms?
Executive pay system: member states to implement EC recommendation ?
Safe & sound European post-trade infrastructures to prevent systemic risks ?
post-
Increase transparency on the OTC derivatives markets (bring on-market?)
on-
Strengthening prudential rules (CRD & Solvency II) (needs road-map models & datasets)
road-
Definitive adoption of 2 directives before end of Parliament mandate ?
Modify decisions on Cmte Supervisors – so as to assign next tasks?
9. ECOFIN TASK ISSUES MACRO-PRUDENTIAL
MACRO-
EU supervisory & regulatory framework (needs amending for Pillar II & III to provide detailed
worked economic templates with empirical constantly updated stress models.)
models.)
Roadmaps (most vital in Pillar II, more than ½ of CRD, but only 5% of advice! Major Gaps!)
Improve supervisory framework & enhance Lamfalussy process (Mar 2009) (This depends on
issues some of which are not immediately urgent for financial stability)
Strengthening risk & crisis management framework (Commission has taken steps here – need to
survey all states’ current crisis response processes to learn lessons – first issues are definition of
systemically important market or firm event, then define KRI advance warnings e.g. what did
supervisors know but did not flag & instead left issues as confidential part of supervisor Pillar II
challenge dialogue?)
Update recommendations on functions of EU Committee of Supervisors (College – need for
cross-
cross-border combined research of EU-wide resilience with stability awaiting per-review data – efforts
EU- per-
required to abstract multi-bank data in a systematic reporting format)?
multi-
Consider legislative actions (Additions to CRD & Solvency II that should be law not principles of
guidance only. Must distinguish hard from flexible data. IFRS could be specified within CRD &
Solvency II plus standardisation of FinRep/CoRep accounting information report format?)
FinRep/
Pro-cyclicality (prudential & accounting rules) (IFRS/CRD on judgment areas)
Pro- (prudential rules)
Banks are not continue to act pro-cyclically; deleverging and raising credit margins!)
pro-
Pro-cyclicality (Major unsolved issues in correlating banks & markets to economy, E-Cap)
Pro- E-
Critical role in wake of G20 (Internal & External embrace of emerging economies into process)
Review guarantees & recapitalizations (Detailed modeling, monitoring & refinement needed)
Mandates of supervisors for EU fin. stability (Needs Central Banks’ models & oversight)
EU on new G20 Fin. Architecture (EU study of global imbalances & EU systemic risk role?)
10. ECOFIN TASK ISSUES MARKETS & MICRO-PRUDENTIAL
MICRO-
Mkt Transparency (OTC FX, MM, BD – bring on-exchange and/or ensure regular reporting?
on-
Currently FX is surveyed every 2 yrs by BIS, but MM & Bonds trading not reported! Need transparent
measures of market liquidity by instrument class and marketplace.)
CRAs reform (need to be far better defined - conflict of interest charging, model quality, validation &
transparency, TTC/PIT, new sub-AAA grades, & individual v. portfolio, cycle economics – listing &
sub-
checking all CRA-type data sources incl. indexes & aggregate spreads data. CRAs are major story in
CRA-
factors leading to present crisis – should be interrogated. Scope for new European CRAs out of firms
that do similar analyses)
CDSs market (netting standards available, but not full trading & clearing standards?)
Executive pay (regulatory checklist under appropriate risk categories + extending risk policies &
independent risk unit oversight of bonus levels & risks – risk authority checklist?)
Clearing (Quality of Market data, gross not just net, are not reported? More needed on Oprisk. Too
Oprisk.
much emphasis in past on commercial competition & not regulatory quality. Clearing should be regulated
like banks (possible project to extend Basel II principles to Exchanges as appropriate? – they hold large
margin collateral c/p risk – same applies to in-house investment bank clearing/netting & prime brokers.
in-
Attention to stock lending?)
OTC derivs (OTC instruments non-standard and/or customers excluded from X access, & degree of
non-
CFDs, & derivs X’s driving the cash market – price discovery needs rethinking)
12. Note: Contextual matters of public opinion?
DG ECFIN …
history as a watchdog for EC/EU core principles, but not yet expressed in tools & models?
now adds responsibility for wider econ role (EU in global structure)
not at all easy to be held responsible in critical manner for EU/Eurozone economy
EU/Eurozone
Now loaded with tasks from ECOFIN in respect of G20 - not fully coordinated in central plan?
Regional context to ECFIN’s work may be embraced in G20 tasks?
EU is in fragile position (hence European Recovery Programme) even before melt-down.
Programme) melt-down.
Too much poverty around its borders (and some bad history)
Critical issues e.g. include how to make a deal with Russia
EU may be going green but how to maintain borders etc.?
Does G20 statement offer basis for wider problem resolutions?
"G20" statement …
rich countries need support of world’s major non-OECD countries’
non-
rich countries’ best effort at reform of international financial institutions +
framework to maintain "level playing fields" (globalisation programme)
programme)
risks rejection by countries where most of world's population live
but, a surprising number of poor countries are implementing Basel II
Useful blueprint (or not?) for 21st C, for at least next decade (Best result may be obtained by focus on modeling of
external economics of EU as Europe Region & then integrating with UN global models before informing into IMF models. All
currently lack detailed finance sectors.)
13. Note: ECOFIN welcomed fair value (fV) guidance by IASB
(fV)
Accounting rules for fV between trading & banking books, on & off B/S are critical,
but ECOFIN sees urgency to improve ‘real economic’ market valuation when
assessing government schemes & cases – but more to be done by IASB & BIS.
G20 decision: ECOFIN will examine progress & need for action re. IASB
governance reform (accountability to public authorities).
ECOFIN states, “Banking institutions have made progress …to release
states,
exhaustive & comparable financial information related to their exposures, losses
& write-downs arising from the financial crisis. Nevertheless, qualitative
write-
disclosure on valuation techniques still has to be improved. The Council
encourages the industry to pursue its initiatives regarding the improvement of
investor information & transparency in the securitisation market.”
market.
…is debatable. Progress is limited & problematic, not “exhaustive” or for
exhaustive”
“comparable financial information” –banks are obfuscating, but they also need
information”
guidance on flexible judgment calls (e.g. in stress-testing of e-cap models).
stress- e-
Qualitative disclosure needs improving, yes, but also standardising, &
standardising,
quantitative definitions e.g. of ‘market turbulence adjustments’ also improved!
adjustments’
Precise relationship (mapping) between IFRS & CRD Pillar II is key!
14. Note: EFC to work on:
Review IMF’s resources & loan instruments for short-term policy
IMF’ short-
IMF relations with other fora & IFIs
Assess progress of key short-term priorities
short-
Assess causes & lessons of present & previous financial crises
Take account of financial stability in all markets (no model expected before 2012!)
Propose updated short-term & long-term work priorities
short- long-
Standard setting & surveillance of financial institutions at global (G20) &
Ecofin roadmaps:
– progress in sharing information with non-cooperative jurisdictions;
non-
– strengthening IMF surveillance
– how IMF should develop early warning mechanisms
– build on swift identification of systemic vulnerabilities
– stronger integration of bilateral & macro-financial surveillance
macro-
– strengthen joint IMF/World Bank Financial Sector Assessment Programs
– review mandate & governance of IFIs.
16. Bank of England Model
This model is illustrative & was never realised by central banks or regulated commercial and investment banks?
17. MACRO-
MACRO-MODEL issues in summary
All authorities lack macro-models with detailed finance sectors (which must include,
macro-
alongside national sectoral & regulatory data & calculations as per CRD & Solvency II law)
ECFIN task has over-arching approvals regime & policy initiatives role in coordination
over-
& collation of EU-wide responses regarding G20+ agenda.
EU-
Key primary G20 & prudential focus is to link financial stability with economics
(macro-
(macro-prudential tier) is CRD (& Solvency II) in Pillar II (e-cap modeing):
(e- modeing):
– least complete parts of CRD & Solvency II (& of IFRS); that
– Banks (& insurers) have greatest practical problems with;
– Understanding market shares accurately & in context of national financial sectors’ quality
– Unless solved they can’t calculate or monitor cyclical behaviour!
can’
EC, with supervisors & central banks could specify macro-financial-economic
macro-financial-
models, with USA + EU-wide & Euro Area dimensions - complicating national sectoral
EU-
models & should monitor with BIS cross-border obligations:
cross-
– Various techniques missing, but can be advised, explained & summarised;
– Pillar II & IFRS framework, data sources & model structures & harmonising these for IFRS, Solvency
II & CRD are critical;
– To take account of full range of G20 tasks & results usefully feeding into macro-models.
macro-models.
This could be single biggest contribution to financial stability &
The only basis for analysing & determining many pro- and anti- cyclical issues
pro- anti-
Current projects indulge too many short-cut assumptions to avoid processing all
short-
available date (& game theory + asymptotic single factor macro-economy variables for those who cannot
macro-
understand macro-economy accounting models or don’t want to!)
macro-
19. G20 tasks
Immediate tasks
Immediate tasks + Medium Term (TAKING FAR LONGER THAN FIRST EXPECTED)
tasks (timescale n/a) financial technical, regulatory & supervisory
policy infrastructure
action plan mandated on relevent
authorities economic scenarios generation for economic
capital models &
divided into groups of tasks & issues: policy assessments of measures by national &
– 80 Immediate (SHORT TERM) international authorities.
tasks & issues
– 57 Medium term tasks & issues Medium term tasks
– distinguished as information or assessment of the effectivenes, adequacy &
action tasks. qualities of all the work done & remaining to
be done by all bodies involved.
appropriate role for Commission includes
coordination & application of this assessment
at EU level
similar to a Basel II ICAAP applied to individual
banks except done by, or on behalf of,
regulators & supervisors & central banks as
monetary authorities, & of governments as
fiscal policy-makers regarding financial
system.
20. Immediate priority: A. Regulatory Regimes
A. Regulatory Regimes Pro-cyclical behaviour by banks (credit cycle exactly matching the economic
cycle) is biggest single unresolved issue of Basel II banking & Solvency II
recommendations to insurance regulations (EU CRD law).
mitigate pro-cyclicality,
pro- Hitherto, banks have been late in deleveraging (withdrawing credit) into a
by reviewing how downturn & late in expanding credit in the early quarters of a recovery.
valuation & leverage, This is central to Basel II Pillar II economic scenario stress tests, but can
bank capital, executive only be addressed looking at all of financial sectors, not by banks
compensation, & individually.
provisioning exacerbate BIS published papers as guides to banks to correlate their experience to the
cyclical trends? underlying economy. None succeeded. Too little academic literature on the
finance sector to general economy relationship. Banks lacked precise
templates how to do this.
BIS & regulators told banks to make their own solutions. This proved to be
too intellectually difficult. 3rd party solution providers could not help either!
Regulators issued some indicators for stress tests, but all banks stress-
tested much too weakly; none to the extent of what needs to happen to wipe
out their capital. In aggregate, credit crunch + recession are each wiping out
all bank capital by 200%. Governments are supplying 100% & debt
recoveries 50%. The remaining 50% has to be replenished in other ways.
______________________________________________________________
Note: Cyclical trends are subject to retrospective revision e.g. US recession now officially began
Dec.’07! UK&I may revise recession data to having begun in mid-’08. EU current official
recession may be revised up to positive growth until 2010 when US is in recovery & UK
following soon after! Perception is as important to ‘confidence factors’’ as fundamental actuality.
Economic patterns are mixed across trade surplus (e.g. Germany) & deficit states (e.g. Greece),
& across credit-boom (e.g. UK) & credit-limited economies (e.g. Italy), with some (e.g. Spain) a
mix of both. But, principles & common features can be established!
21. Immediate tasks (1 of 10) B. Prudential Oversight
B. Prudential Oversight In EU 10-13 are in hand, all else is unresolved.
10-
.3 ensure credit ratings agencies (CRAs) meet IOSR standards CRAs operated faulty models until June ‘07 &
.4 & CRAs avoid conflicts of interest, accepted commercial conflicts of interest. But,
CRAs occupy a role more central & essential to
.5 provide greater disclosure to investors & issuers, financial valuations & markets, as risk drivers &
.6 differentiate ratings for complex products, & ensure quantifiers, in banking & insurances than
.7 CRAs role is to deliver superior unbiased risk assessments economic indicators, auditors or stock
(but under legal risk/ solvency threats & can’t prove if superior models)? exchanges.
IOSR to review… CRAs are essential, but must be regulated,
.8 credit rating agencies’ standards and qualified & reformed. Credit crunch deepened
.9 mechanisms for monitoring compliance. dramatically when ABS issues, banks &
Monolines were downgraded, or subject to
Supervisory Authorities to ensure… potential downgrades, & share prices crashed
.10 financial institutions maintain adequate capital triggered by CRAs once they fixed their models.
.11 in amounts necessary to sustain confidence. But, problems remained in grey areas between
International standard setters to set out… TTC & PIT risk grades, single & p/f ratings.
.12 strengthened capital reqs. for banks’ structured credit and
reqs. More model transparency needed, or banks &
.13 securitization activities. insurers (less so) cannot create their own IR
models. All IR models currently rely on CRAs.
Supervisors & regulators to… Internal models only extend to unrated SME &
.14 build on launch of CDS clearing services in some countries household loans (using score-cards) & calculate
score-
.15 speed efforts to reduce systemic risks of CDS & OTC derivs for collateral & sureties.
.16 insist market participants support exchange-traded or
exchange- Efforts to create exchange clearing for illiquid &
.17 electronic trading platforms for CDS contracts; OTC instruments = very important. But, currently
.18 expand OTC derivs market transparency; & standards are available only for netting CDS.
.19 ensure OTC derivs infrastructure supports growing volumes. CRAs are not yet producing hold-to-maturity risk
hold-to-
gradings for TTC ABS valuations.
A few new CRAs are emerging to do this but there
is an oligopoly & insufficient quality validation.
22. Immediate tasks (2 of 10) C. Risk Management
C. Risk Management In the EU, regulatory supervisors are already doing
Regulators to develop & implement…
implement… 20-29 as adequately as possible in current
.20 enhanced guidance to banks’ risk management
banks’ turbulent conditions. 30-37 are outstanding
.21 in line with international best practices, & problems.
.22 financial firms to re-examine internal controls &
re- Liquidity risk, concentration risk & stress-testing
.23 strengthened policies for sound risk management. are ill-defined despite recent new guidance =
.24 policies & procedures for fin. firms to manage liquidity risk currently inadequate for detailed assessment.
.25 Including by creating strong liquidity cushions. All banks failed to include one or more essential
factors in their liquidity analyses. As with
Supervisors to ensure…
ensure…
economic scenario stress tests, banks want much
.26 Fin. firms develop processes for timely &
more precise templates.
.27 comprehensive measurement of risk concentrations &
This is a hard-to-change culture in which CRD is
.28 large counterparty risk positions across products &
treated as a regulatory overhead = not yet as
.29 across geographies. central & core to how banks manage & operate.
Financial Firms to…
to… Liquidity risk used to be treated as relatively
.30 reassess risk models to guard against stress & simple, predictable, easy to understand, trsy mgt
.31 report to supervisors on their efforts. operation, now a crisis!?
.32 have clear internal incentives to promote stability & Credit crunch dramatically exposed liquidity
.33 have necessary actions for this in place ignorance, but banks’ boards & senior officers lack
.33 avoid rewarding excessive short-term returns / risk taking.
short- confidence how to take a precise or firm view of
.34 exercise effective risk management & the issues.
.35 due diligence over structured products & securitization. Ideally, it would help if they had more precise
Basel Committee to…
to… standards with worked examples & a liquidity
.36 study need for improving firms’ stress testing models &
firms’ health measure.
.37 provide help to firms’ stress testing models, as appropriate.
firms’
23. Immediate tasks (3 of 10) D. Promoting Integrity in Financial Markets
In the EU, regulatory supervisors are co-operating in 38 & 39
above. 40-47 all in need of research & data & by central
D. Promoting Integrity in Financial Markets banks with ECB. What they do not address is issue of post-
National & regional authorities to promote & ensure… MiFid fragmentation away from EU’s major stock exchanges.
.38 working together to enhance regulatory cooperation Ensuring cooperation among banking & insurance regulators
.39 between jurisdictions on a regional & international level? in applying CRD is main function of C-ebs.
.40 information sharing about domestic threats & National supervisors have right to challenge each other &
.41 cross-
cross-border threats to market stability & host country supervisors can examine banks’ home country
.42 national (or regional) law is adequate to address these regulatory submissions.
threats? Degree of such co-operation was most clearly evidenced in
.43 review business conduct rules to protect markets & failures of Fortis, Dexia, & others, whether funding problems
investors? (new Company Law standards?) or error-ridden failure to comply in detail with CRD legal
.44 especially against market manipulation & requirements.
.45 fraud & New liquidity risk reserve ratios, other cyclical buffers &
.46 cooperation to protect Intl. fin. system from illicit actions. much more template detailed Pillar II analytics are in train,
.47 appropriate sanctions regime for misconduct. but much remains to be detailed.
Issues of cross-border financial stability threats including
stock-lending & short-selling as well as shadow-banking,
how securitization issues were packaged & sold (between fin.
Firms & between banking & trading books, & between proprietary &
customers’ portfolios) & fair value issues are capable of being
resolved, but only if firm principles are enforced = not
compromised to please or disappoint everyone equitably.
Operational risk issues of fraud & cross-border cooperation,
44 -47, are variously in hand in EU. Differences remain &
cannot be ironed out soon.
24. Immediate tasks (4 of 10) E. Reinforcing International Cooperation
In the EU, CEBS is in process of standardising supervisor
training = a form of supervisory college. But, this does not
E. Reinforcing International Cooperation
extend to level of detail required by G20. CEBS is not designed
Supervisors to collaborate to strengthen...
for this with ‘culture’ or skill-set to act at this level.
.48 supervisor colleges for major cross-border fin.firms,
cross- fin.firms, EU Commission could devise such a process? There is a process
.49 surveillance of cross-border firms
cross- in place for supervising cross-border financial institutions, but
.50 regular meetings with major global banks for not yet a formal or regular meeting between systemically
.51 comprehensive discussions of firm’s activities & important cross-border institutions to meet with a college of
.52 assessment of the risks the firm faces. supervisors from each jurisdiction involved.
Regulators to take all steps necessary to This could be devised on an EU-wide (& non-EU ‘partners’) basis
.53 strengthen cross-border crisis management,
cross- beginning with template example of FSA’s ARROW reviews =
.54 incl. cooperation & communication with each other interrogatory challenge system.
Regulators may co-operate on cross-border crisis management,
.55 with appropriate authorities, &
but does not yet fit in all regulators’ national remits.
.56 develop comprehensive contact lists &
Only central banks are strictly responsible for fin. sector system
.57 conduct simulation exercises, as appropriate. stability. Regulatory arms or separately constituted supervisory
authorities are responsible for resilience of individual firms, not
systemic risks directly. Finance Ministries (and ECOFIN) have
coordinating responsibilities. Therefore, 53-57 could be an
appropriate coordinating role for Commission as in case of
pricing of national government & central bank support for banks
& also European Economic Recovery Plan (November 26th ‘08),
plus Regulation setting up European Globalisation Fund?
25. Medium-
Medium-term tasks (6 of 10) G. Regulatory Regimes
G. Regulatory Regimes CRD is half-completed towards ensuring most of
All G-20 members commit to undertake Financial Sector
G- above. Self-assessment or external assessment is a
Assessment Program, report & support transparent very significant undertaking for EU & a major
assessments of natl. regulatory systems.
natl. contribution to single market policies & perceptions.
Each country or region pledges to review & report: Essentially it is EU-wide audit that Commission has
.81 on structure of its regulatory system & much experience of in economic & social programmes
.82 principles of its regulatory system using external auditors. Asessment is almost identical
.83 ensure it is compatible with a modern & to principles of Basel II ICAAP, except applied to
.84 increasingly globalised financial system. regulatory regimes. EU is a single market, a meta-
Authorities review & report on differentiated nature of: economy above national economies, & with an
.85 regulation in banking, securities, & insurance sectors & international single currency & monetary zone.
.86 outlining the issues & Thus cross-border comparisons are economically
.87 making recommendations on needed improvements important & cannot be satisfied by individual national
.88 scope of Fin. Regs for unregulated firms, instruments, & reports.
markets C-ebs is co-ordinating on CRD & related regulatory
.89 appropriate regulation for all systemically-important
systemically- supervision & announced cutting down of national
institutions. exceptions. But, there is more than this.
National & regional authorities to review Commission could scope an appropriate study & then
.90 resolution regimes & put this to tender in whole or in parts. One weakness is
.91 bankruptcy laws in light of recent experience & to ensure that with 93 & 94 there is not a reference to a 95 to be
.92 orderly wind-down of large complex cross-border
wind- cross- some standardisation of economic-capital models
financial firms. definitions & implementation = more critical than
Definitions of capital to be…
be… capital adequacy.
.93 harmonized, in order for
.94 consistent measures of capital & capital adequacy.
26. Medium-
Medium-term tasks (7 of 10) H. Prudential Oversight
There are calls for creation of one or more
European CRAs - a logic, notwithstanding
globalised nature of financial markets. & there are
H. Prudential Oversight nascent European-based firms with potential to
Supervisors & central banks to grow into fully-fledged CRAs on a par with S&P,
.95 register CRAs that provide public ratings Moody’s & Fitch.
.96 develop robust & internationally consistent approaches But, 95 is a task to define who are & who are not
for liquidity supervision, (including) of CRAs, & then what are all credit ratings data
.97 central bank liquidity operations for cross-border banks.
cross- sources & providers & then validation checks &
certification or some regular regulatory audit.
Indexes should be included. 96 is partly also an
index issue, as liquidity risk can be dictated by
credit risk gradings.
This, & central banks’ liquidity windows are
complex issues that require considerable research
by financial experts working with economists &
practical mathematicians.
There is no single institution or standards body
that can address all of the above.
Hence this again seems a place for EU Commission
to coordinate.
27. Medium-
Medium-term tasks (8 of 10) I. Risk Management
In official G20 text, in 98 ‘economists’ must also be implied
here - an important point since economists have generally
I. Risk Management been left out of standards setting for banks & insurers.
International standards bodies to work with…
with… They have much to contribute centrally to Basel II,
.98 broad range of economies & other appropriate Solvency II (EU CRD) Pillar II.
bodies, But, over & above this they are important in navigating the
.99 to ensure regulatory policy makers are aware & current economic cycle. Pillar II requires banks & insurers
.100 can respond rapidly to evolution & innovation in to stress test for a 1 in 25 set of market & economic
financial markets & products. shocks, in effect a severe recession. Undertaking this
Authorities should monitor…
monitor… today is changed obviously when in the middle of such a
.101 substantial changes in asset prices & set of shocks. It should surprise no-one that banks’
.102 their implications for macroeconomy & internal models & systems are not attuned or designed or
.103 for financial system. capable of determining recovery strategies & short term
implications in next few years.
Economists now, by force of circumstances, have a critical
role to play, more than designers of Basel II imagined.
EU authorities could address this issue with the same
application applied to economic analysis of the
introduction of the common currency. At that time,
external economists were not much employed, but it
should be different this time in addressing 102 & 103, but
quite possibly will not be given the cultural resistance
within banks to empowering their macro-economists?
28. Medium-
Medium-term tasks (9 of 10) J. Promoting Integrity in Financial Markets
J. Promoting Integrity in Financial Markets Items 104-107 have in mind off-shore financial centres
National & regional authorities should implement … & tax-havens. They can also apply to unregulated
.104 natl. & internatl. steps to protect global financial system shadow-banking types of firms generally.
.105 from uncooperative jurisdiction & We do have views & analysis that can be contributed
.106 from non-transparent jurisdictions that
non- here as to all previous tasks, but not on items 108-114.
.107 pose risks of illicit financial activity. On eve of Credit Crunch & during it, various attempts to
Financial Action Task Force to continue work against… extend transparency & regulation fell before legal &
political obstacles.
.108 money laundering &
What we do not yet have is comprehensive assessment
.109 terrorist financing, &
of the scale of issues involved. This would seem a
.110 support efforts of the World Bank proper study for Commission DGs.
.111 UN Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative. Tasks 108-111 are in hand within EU & while more
Tax authorities to draw on bodies such as OECD to… coordination may be called for, these are not isssues
.112 continue efforts to promote tax information exchange we are able to comment on with authority & that applies
.113 on lack of transparency & also to 112-114.
.114 failure to exchange tax information.
29. Medium-
Medium-term tasks (10 of 10) L. Reforming International Financial Institutions
Underlying these are global (& Commission) questions
relating to how trade & payments imbalances respond
L. Reforming International Financial Institutions to & raised a demand for spectacular growth of
Bretton Woods Institutions must be… be… structured credit or debt instruments. Theories about
.126 comprehensively reformed so that they can better savings, with export-led or endogenous growth,
.127 reflect changing economic weights in world economy & shortage of government bonds, credit-boom bubbles,
.128 be more responsive to future challenges, with commodity booms etc.
.129 emerging & developing economies given more voice & This is an area for global & multi-regional macro-
.130 representation in these institutions. empirical economists. Bretton Woods model has a
IMF to conduct vigorous & even-handed…
even-handed… special interest for EU & Commission as within EU
.131 surveillance reviews of all countries, arguably ECB (in conjunction with Commission’s
.132 giving greater attention to financial sectors & external development programmes) may become more
.133 integrating reviews with IMF/WB financial sector like an EU IMF (except for UK objection). This is high-
.134 whereby macro-financial policy advice is strengthened.
macro- politics that has a long history since Delors Plam,
OECD economies, IMF, & other international bodies for... European recovery Plan & current debates over if 2% or
.135 capacity-building for emerging & developing countries
capacity- 8% reflation is needed & if Commission should have
.136 formulation & implementation of major new regulations,
regulations, borrowing rights to issue large quantities of long term
.137 consistent with international standards. debt to support cross-border transfers within EU.
These matters will have more light shed by coordinating
with IMF to remain close to shape & formal processes a
new Bretton Woods could be.
In current context it is key to EU’s near term external
policy & global role in financial matters & in terms of
global economic recovery. Currently, we surmise, there
are more published papers (if not many) with interesting
ideas & analyses on what EU, Commission, could do.