Financial Stability
Moldovan central bank suspends rights of lenders’ shareholders
Move is latest effort to enforce law in notoriously difficult banking sector
Lebanese central bank orders wire services not to use dollars
Economy under strain from political division, fiscal shortfall and refugee crisis
MAS to gain powers over wider set of payment services
Central bank will also enforce new limits for coin payments
Basel Committee softens impact of revised market risk framework
Final framework cuts expected increase in average capital requirements almost in half
Supervisory lessons: resolution is a ‘dirty business’
Aristóbulo de Juan offers a toolkit for resolving problem banks
European auditors ask lawmakers for increased access to ECB documents
ECB has failed to provide sufficient information in three major audits, official body says
Individual bank diversification can increase systemic risk, researchers find
Banks that are not systemically important can be ‘systemic as a herd’, authors say
Islamic finance is for everyone, Malaysia’s Zahid says
Bank Negara Malaysia assistant governor stresses inclusiveness of Islamic finance
Ukrainian central bank plans major forex liberalisation
NBU says foreign currency reserves are highest since before revolution
ECB starts publishing statistics on secured euro money market
Data gathered using same methods used to measure unsecured segment of market
US equity prices affect consumer and business confidence, researcher finds
Results highlight risks to macroeconomy of recent equity slump
Fed’s Quarles outlines ‘building block approach’ to insurance regulation
Regulator chose not to copy and paste banking sector regulations onto insurers, says vice-chair
Mexico unveils measures to foster financial inclusion
Plan intends to promote digital payments, facilitate access to credit and deepen capital markets
EU must decide on how to oversee fintech regulation, ESAs say
Three supervisory authorities publish report on regulatory sandboxes and innovation hubs
Romanian central bank governor says bank tax law is ‘nonsense’
Mugur Isărescu attacks “incomprehensible bomb” in latest dispute with government
Former IMF chief blames Bank of Spain in Bankia case
Board followed central bank instructions in merger and failed IPO, says Rodrigo Rato
Yellen ‘greatly concerned’ over regulation reversals
Fed unveils proposal for relaxing stress test requirements
Vietnam continues with payment card upgrades
Banks must phase out magnetic strip cards by 2021
Ghana's central bank closes two banks and plans to recapitalise five more
Three banks to merge as financial sector reform effort continues
FCA opens temporary permissions regime application window
Firms have until March 28 to notify the UK regulator
Conventional models beat machine learning in predicting crises, paper finds
Bundesbank paper contrasts performance of logit approach to machine learning
Chinese central bank again seeks to boost lending to small businesses
PBoC doubles threshold for loans exempted under reserve-ratio requirements