Systemic risk
BoE and FCA set out plan to oversee ‘critical third parties’
Regulators fear growing reliance on outsourced services could threaten financial stability

Data sharing as a policy intervention
Increasing access to data represents another policy lever regulators can pull to achieve their objectives, writes David Bholat

Balance sheet data can help gauge systemic risk, ECB paper says
Researchers present methodology for assessing large and small lenders based on SRisk measure

Joachim Nagel on the ECB’s terminal rate, fiscal policy, model relevance and the digital euro
The Deutsche Bundesbank president speaks about compromise on the Governing Council, rolling back PEPP, the need to implement Basel III and the chances of a revised Stability and Growth Pact
Non-banks taking on significant ‘hidden leverage’, FSB warns
Off-balance-sheet positions have grown, but data on many parts of the system is poor
Generative AI has ‘broad systemic implications’ – IMF
Economists argue regulators need to take action now to mitigate risks
BoE researchers call for more advanced stress-testing techniques
Survey finds “great strides” in modelling but calls for greater complexity and feedback loops
Bank resolutions averaged 1.8 cases in last decade – central banks
Lower-middle income countries report higher mean number of resolutions
Guillermo Avellán on BCE independence, capacity-building and dollarisation
Ecuador’s general manager speaks about bolstering legal autonomy, dollarisation, payments and gold production
Rule-setters need to heed their own advice
The US risks a reputation for failing to meet standards to which it holds others
IMF economist takes on vexed question of macro-pru calibration
Housing markets are “at a turning point”, says Laura Valderrama, and policy faces tough trade-offs
IMF’s Adrian on the systemic threat posed by a ‘weak tail’ of financial institutions
IMF’s financial counsellor discusses the need for action on run rate assumptions, interest rate risk, deposit insurance and crypto regulation
A troubling trilemma
Central banks need to tread a fine line as they serve as the economy’s police, fire brigade and paramedics
Credit Suisse collapse triggered eurozone contagion – ECB’s Enria
Enria says some kinds of contagion were more dangerous than others as Swiss G-Sib collapsed
What are the systemic lessons of SVB?
Philip Turner says the collapse of SVB reveals deeper issues than many have realised
China to overhaul financial regulatory system
Proposed changes reduce the PBoC’s role in financial oversight
ECB estimates trillions of euros at risk from climate change
Central bank publishes sustainable finance, carbon emissions and physical risk indicators
Rethinking the CCyB
As central banks rush to replenish bank capital reserves, the countercyclical buffer may need some fine-tuning
Proportionality in bank regulation: striking the right balance
Careful analysis is required when making any proportionality adjustments in the EU single rule book
Armenia’s Galstyan calls for a new framework to tackle uncertainty and nonlinearities
Favours risk-management approach to policy and less emphasis on baseline forecasts that give false assurances
Is there a case for a retail CBDC in Japan?
A BoJ-managed, account-ledger ‘digital yen’ tied to the new Kotora payments may offer some potential
Book notes: The Fed unbound, by Lev Menand
This book highlights need for charter-like oversight of shadow banking sector
Rethinking regulation of the modern financial system
Rules need to address uncertainty in addition to risks, and should not be too complex
G30 warns US Treasury market remains vulnerable
Group says US regulators need to do more to prevent dysfunction in the critical market