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On 14 January 2025, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) updated its webpage regarding its innovation hub.

The update includes information regarding the 2025-2026 work programme which includes:

  • At the start of 2025, the innovation hub’s project portfolio consisted of 26 active projects and 31 projects completed since its establishment in 2019. BIS

In recent years, diversity and inclusion (D&I) in the financial services sector has become a focus for regulators around the world. Individual regulators, however, have taken different approaches to D&I to reflect the local socio-economic environment.

Below, we provide a high-level summary of the position across a number of key jurisdictions updating our table published

On 12 December 2024, the Bank for International Settlement’s Financial Stability Institute published a paper which explores the potential transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the financial sector. In summary, the paper notes that while AI exacerbates existing risks such as model risk and data privacy, it does not introduce fundamentally new

On 12 December 2024, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published:

  • Final Report – Recommendations to Promote Alignment and Interoperability Across Data Frameworks Related to Cross-border Payments. The Final Report sets out policy recommendations for promoting alignment and interoperability across data frameworks (i.e. the laws, rules, and regulatory requirements for collecting, storing and

On 5 December 2024, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published its 2024 Resolution Report.

The Resolution Report takes stock of the FSB resolution-related work of the past year as well as of the progress made by FSB members in implementing resolution reforms and enhancing resolvability across the banking, financial market infrastructure, and

On 4 December 2024, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) issued a press release following its plenary in Hong Kong on 3 and 4 December.

Key points from the press release include that the FSB:

  • Will shortly
  • On 29 November 2024, the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) issued a final report on the evolution in the operation, governance and business models of exchanges. The final report focuses on equity exchanges but may be of relevance to other types of trading venues and trading in other classes of financial instruments.

    On 28 November 2024, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) published a report which describes the range of practices in implementing a positive neutral countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB).

    In 2010, the Basel Committee published guidance that detailed the key requirements for operating the CCyB, and in 2017 it published

    On 26 November 2024, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published the 2024 list of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) published additional information relating to the 2024 G-SIB assessment.

    The FSB confirmed that no banks have been removed or added to

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