Data
Financial stability staff sufficiency improves year on year
Most central banks report contentment with non-staff resources
The foundations of sovereign finance are quietly evolving
Digital settlement infrastructure is taking shape. Now SSA issuers must decide how, not whether, to participate, argues Domenico Nardelli
Most central banks co-ordinate monetary and financial stability tools
Cross-scenario evaluation and committee overlap cited as areas of interaction
Supervision Benchmarks 2025 – model banks analysis
Data breakdowns reveal patterns in staffing, supervisory strategy and inspections
Financial technologies are increasing AML/CFT risks – EBA
Crypto increasingly used to facilitate crime, while fintech firms prioritise “growth over compliance”
Supervision Benchmarks 2025 – executive summary
Data reveals focus on digitalisation and widespread use of suptech tools
Book notes: Making money work, by Matt Sekerke and Steve H Hanke
This book provides a critique of the post-crisis monetary and financial system, proposing changes that deserve to be broadly read
Supervision Benchmarks 2025 report – digital oversight
Benchmarking data reveals how supervisors structure their organisations, as well as their top strategic priorities and technology adoption
Banks seek EU supervisory green light on external credit data
GCD-developed industry standard to show pooled loss data is representative of banks’ portfolios
Supervisors widely use suptech tools for data collection and validation
AI use is growing but remains much less widespread than suptech
Resolution framework update planned by 56% of supervisors
Non-central bank supervisory authorities less likely to have bail-in powers
Collateral pre-positioning reported in half of jurisdictions
Most supervisors believe banks are ready to access emergency central bank liquidity
Supervisors report low adoption of newer global standards
High income supervisors more likely to have regulations in place
Data automation at ‘moderate’ level in most supervisors
Over 70% of supervisors plan to upgrade data collection in the next year
Book notes: Central banking at the frontier, by Thammarak Moenjak
This well-structured book provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges digitalisation poses for finance and includes possible actions for central banks
Three in five supervisory authorities publish oversight outcomes
Majority of respondents release supervision details in annual report
FSB sets up task force to tackle non-bank data gaps
“High-level” team will investigate leveraged trading strategies in core bond markets
Digitalisation is top strategic priority for supervisors
Majority of supervisors have a strategy document but only half make them public
Ex-OCC chief urges new approach to AI explainability
Michael Hsu suggests shift from academic analysis to decision-based techniques
How central banks manage their own cyber defences
Resilience against system breaches, ransomware and phishing attacks is in focus, alongside managing third-party risks and the threat of state actors to payment systems
Supervisors review banks’ asset quality at varied frequencies
Middle income supervisors tend to review assets more often than high income counterparts
Boris Vujčić on Croatia’s economic journey, the digital euro and the Governing Council
The Croatian National Bank (HNB) governor speaks with Christopher Jeffery about managing financial risks, the pros and cons of euro adoption, payment system reform and the use of real-time data
Systemic banks prioritised in onsite inspections
Supervisors’ activities commonly include interviews, reviews and verifications
Onsite inspection frequency tailored to individual firms’ risk profiles
All authorities in high and middle income countries engage in risk-based exercises