Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC)
Lessons learned on macro-pru policies
Tools are proving their worth although use cases vary by country; role in over-arching frameworks remains a challenge
US regulators call for new stablecoin regulations
Working group wants issuers to be insured and regulated like banks
Republican senator accuses Fed of politicising research
Toomey demands documents from San Francisco Fed on climate and racial justice studies
Fed to launch new committee on climate risk
Brainard says body will focus on systemic dangers and warns hazards are hard to forecast
James Bullard on the Fed’s policy review, FSOC and forecasting jobs data
St Louis Fed president discusses his support for average inflation targeting, his concerns about US Treasuries market function, non-bank regulatory weakness and negative rates, as well as the unexpected success in using Homebase data to predict highly…
IMF urges broad shake-up of US financial stability framework
Rapidly changing financial landscape poses challenges for the complex oversight framework, IMF says
Next financial crisis “will be brewing” in shadow banking – Bullard
Silicon Valley disruption represents threat to financial stability; Fed has limited powers to counter it despite FSOC and tough new bank rules, says Eighth District president
James Bullard on 2% rates, tariffs and Fed leadership
The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis speaks about the impact of US trade policies, the disruption to the banking industry from Silicon Valley, shrinking the Fed balance sheet and the potential for agent-based modelling
FPC better equipped for crisis than FSOC – BoE paper
Paper compares how macro-prudential regulators in UK and US would handle a 2008-style crisis
Regulatory efficiency or rollback?
Team USA’s new clarion call for regulatory “efficiency” comes with a worrying undertow, particularly related to regulatory rollback and ‘light-touch’ supervision of algorithms
Fed proposes expanding risk regime to foreign subsidiaries
New consultation suggests widening the scope of the August 2017 proposals to foreign-owned operations
Yellen defends contentious FSOC decision on AIG
Top regulators narrowly vote to remove AIG’s designation as systemic, exposing sharply contradicting views on the Financial Stability Oversight Committee
Sarb offers insight into its macro-prudential toolkit
Central bank begins to outline macro-prudential tools needed to enforce financial stability mandate, seeking comment on appropriate instruments
Fed board gets financial stability division
The office of financial policy and research, established in 2010 to co-ordinate work across the board, is reclassified as a financial stability division; Fed cites “growth in responsibilities and staffing”
US needs to improve supervision of insurers, FSB peer review concludes
Dombret-led review says US is making progress in reducing systemic risk, but insurance supervision architecture is ‘fragmented'; FSB also publishes progress report on compensation practices
Bernanke outlines Fed's ‘intensified' monitoring of financial system
Focus is on Sifis, shadow banking, asset markets, and the non-financial sector, according to the chairman of the Federal Reserve
Fed presidents back money market fund reform
Regional federal reserve bank presidents say money market fund reform needed to increase resilience and reduce susceptibility to runs, despite SEC objections
Fed’s Yellen warns authorities of new financial risks
Federal Reserve vice-chair Janet Yellen says authorities must be attentive to risks created by new financial products
Banks blame complexity for slipping tri-party reform targets
Reforms to $1.59 trillion tri-party repo market are set to miss industry deadlines, and could now spill into 2012
Bernanke pledges tough oversight of CCPs
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke says reforms to financial market infrastructure will help strengthen supervision of central counterparties
FSoC to take ‘flexible approach’ to identifying systemically important financial market infrastructures
US Financial Stability Oversight Council outlines criteria for what qualifies as systemically important financial market infrastructure