On 18 December 2024, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) issued a consultation report on proposed policy recommendations to its members and standard setting bodies on leverage in non-bank financial intermediation (NBFI).
Entities in scope of the proposed recommendations are non-bank financial firms that use leverage, either financial or synthetic, including hedge
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 13 December 2024, the Bank of England (BoE) issued a consultation paper setting out proposals for a set of requirements in rules and a code of practice and expectations for UK financial market infrastructures (FMIs) to report operational incidents and their material third-party arrangements.
Rationale
The proposals in the consultation
On 12 December 2024, the Government published its response to the Treasury Committee report on access to financing for small businesses.
The report, which was published in May 2024, made recommendations related to de-banking and the Business Banking Resolution Service. It was the conclusion of work carried out by previous members of the Treasury
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:
The Global Foreign Exchange Committee (GFXC) has issued a press release following its virtual meeting on 5–6 December 2024.
Among other things the press release notes that:
On 11 December 2024, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) published final guidelines for counterparty credit risk (CCR) management. The guidelines will replace the Basel Committee’s ‘Sound practices for banks’ interactions with highly leveraged institutions’ published in January 1999.
CCR
CCR is the risk that the counterparty to a
On 10 December 2024, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) issued policy recommendations to enhance the liquidity preparedness of non-bank market participants for margin and collateral calls in centrally and non-centrally cleared derivatives and securities markets (including securities financing such as repo).
The policy recommendations are part of the FSB’s work programme on enhancing
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