Systemic risk
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
US senator attacks regional Fed over fintech firm’s payments access
Kansas City Fed president Esther George refuses to release correspondence about terminating account
Average RTGS system processes millions of payments yearly
Benchmarking data shows wide range of transaction volumes
Shadow banks need macro-pru regimes – Bundesbank paper
Limits on shadow banks’ leverage could have helped avert global financial crisis, researcher finds
The international effort to manage NBFI risks: where do we stand?
Maurizio Trapanese details progress made during the Italian G20 presidency as well as outstanding macro-pru issues
War forcing central banks into ‘delicate balancing act’, says IMF
Sudden repricing of risk could expose vulnerabilities, fund says in latest stability report
Chinese draft law sets up financial stability fund
New government committee would oversee financial stability as concerns grow
Hong Kong recovery expected to slow – IMF
Fund warns of risks including exposures to Chinese real estate and further supply disruption
Latin American dollar debts could cause systemic risk, paper says
Authors say the Fed risks a major policy mistake if it ignores the wider impact of tighter US policy
Experts urge OCC to include climate risk in bank exams
Regulator’s proposed principles are step in the right direction, but still behind Europe
Reputational risk tops central bank concerns
Cyber security and credit/counterparty risk followed
GFXC names SNB’s Maechler as new chair
Swiss central banker succeeds Guy Debelle
Quarles says Congress should rein in Fed funding
Former vice-chair for supervision calls for new body to wind down liquidity programmes
JP Morgan becomes world’s most systemically important bank
A handful of banks climb the rankings in this year’s updated FSB G-Sib list
More macro-pru tools needed, say some central banks
Some benchmark respondents say they lack legal framework for macro-prudential powers
FSB relaunches global surveillance framework
New approach aims to be more systematic and reflect FSB’s “broad membership”
Emerging nations favour different macro-prudential tools
Respondents from richer countries use counter-cyclical buffers more than emerging market peers
Many central banks are sole macro-pru agency
Two-thirds of respondents say central bank alone can impose macro-pru restrictions
Management failings caused Australian equity trading platform outage
Responsibility for upgrade project was unclear, IBM review finds
An assessment of the ECB’s strategy review
Aspects of the framework raise challenges for implementation and credibility, while climate change inclusion may politicise the institution