On 16 July 2024, the Bank for International Settlements published a speech by Klass Knot (Chair of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and President of the Netherlands Bank). The speech is dated 11 July 2024 and is entitled The AI adventure – how artificial intelligence may shape the economy and the financial system
On 16 May 2024, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) published a report on the implications of the digitalisation of finance on banks and supervision.
The report builds on the Basel Committee’s 2018 paper, Sound practices: implications of fintech developments for banks and bank supervisors and takes stock of recent developments
On 23 January 2024, the Bank for International Settlements’ (BIS) Innovation Hub announced its first six projects for its 2024 work programme. The projects focus on safety and security, green finance and next generation financial infrastructures. Additional work on advanced data analytics and tokenisation are also planned.
Head of the BIS Innovation Hub
On 19 December 2023, the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) published a final report with policy recommendations to address market integrity and investor protection issues in decentralised finance (DeFi).
The policy recommendations, which are principles-based and outcomes-focused, are addressed to relevant authorities and complement IOSCO’s policy recommendations for crypto and
On 15 November 2023, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision issued a discussion paper which provides a high-level assessment of the supervisory and financial stability implications of digital fraud for the global banking system. It is structured around three broad sets of questions:
On 15 November 2023, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision issued a discussion paper which provides a high-level assessment of the supervisory and financial stability implications of digital fraud for the global banking system. It is structured around three broad sets of questions:
Every month we provide the Global Blockchain Business Council’s Post-Trade Distributed Ledger group with a global regulatory FinTech updater, the latest version of which can be found here.
Post Trade Distributed Ledger (PTDL) Group is composed of over 40 prominent market infrastructure stakeholders whose shared vision of the use of distributed ledger technology has
On 22 June 2023, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a consultative document on enhancing third-party risk management and oversight: a toolkit for financial institutions and financial authorities.
The toolkit has been developed against a backdrop of digitalisation of the financial services sector and growing reliance of financial institutions on third-party service providers
On 25 May 2023, a group of central banks, together with the Bank for International Settlements, published a paper on central bank digital currencies (CBDC): ongoing policy perspectives.
Since publishing (i) a report in October 2020 setting out the common foundational principles and core features of a CBDC, and (ii) an executive summary
On 23 May 2023, the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) published a consultation report containing 18 proposed recommendations intended to help IOSCO members apply IOSCO’s Objectives and Principles for Securities Regulation and relevant supporting IOSCO standards, recommendations and good practices to crypto-asset activities within their jurisdictions.
The proposed recommendations cover six key