International Organization of Securities Commissions (Iosco)
FSB to reform external audits of financial institutions
Financial Stability Board in major drive to ensure external audits of financial institutions provide more relevant information to prudential supervisors, regulators and investors
Tucker replaces Dudley as chairman of CPSS
Bank of England’s Paul Tucker to replace New York Fed’s William Dudley as head of international committee responsible for payments, clearing and settlements infrastructure
Regulators ignore data challenges at their peril, say CBJ authors
Standards-setters around the world seeking to improve financial stability are destined to fail unless they can get to grips with core data needs, according to the authors of a new Central Banking Journal article
Data: a core challenge for financial regulatory reform
Improving financial stability through the use of interconnected and predictive supervisory tools requires a rethink on data. By Constantin Gurdgiev and Keith Saxton
Wright secures top secretariat job at Iosco
European Commission veteran David Wright is leaving academia to become the new secretary general of the International Organization of Securities Commissions
New chair for Basel Joint Forum
Basel-based Joint Forum on issues common to the banking, securities and insurance sectors selects new head
CPSS asks for help filling derivatives data reporting gaps
Committee on Payments and Settlements Systems releases OTC derivatives market report for comment; wants suggestions on addressing data gaps
Nine securities regulators to join Iosco
International Organisation of Securities Commissions (Iosco) announces nine regulatory authorities have been invited to join
Bernanke pledges tough oversight of CCPs
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke says reforms to financial market infrastructure will help strengthen supervision of central counterparties
Interview: Daniela Russo
The European Central Bank's director-general of payments discusses the CPSS-Iosco report on regulating financial market infrastructures
Clarity, access to information key to financial market infrastructure oversight, say regulators
Consultation report from CPSS and Iosco says central banks, market regulators need clear, specific information to determine which financial market infrastructures need regulation
CPSS-Iosco proposes risk standards for CCPs
Central counterparties should be ready for failure of one or two largest customers, regulators suggest
Iosco draws systemic risk roadmap for securities regulators
International Organisation of Securities Commissions sets out ways in which securities authorities can help control systemic risk
G20 calls for bigger, better FSB to carry reform agenda
G20 leaders at Seoul summit identify areas in which further progress in needed, calling on Financial Stability Board to take the lead and drive reform; ask FSB to report on what extra resources it needs
Iosco issues guidelines to crack down on dark pools
International Organisation of Securities Commissions solicits comment on how to regulate dark liquidity
Iosco names new technical head
Dutch regulator Hans Hoogervorst will take the chair of Iosco's technical committee this week
Iosco calls on regulators to share information
International securities body says members should cooperate outside an enforcement context to spot disturbing trends; report sets out principles of bilateral information-sharing deals
Regulators set out policy agenda for OTC derivatives infrastructure
CPSS and IOSCO issue consultative reports on central counterparties and trade repositories
Wheatley on where regulation is heading in Hong Kong
Justin Keay speaks with the CEO of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission about regulatory priorities in the wake of the credit crunch and the future of regulation in Hong Kong and mainland China
Dirk Witteveen to chair Joint Forum
The Joint Forum's parent organisations announced on Wednesday 21 December the appointment of Dirk Witteveen as chair of the Joint Forum for a two-year term beginning January 2006.
Update on initiatives to combat money laundering
The Joint Forum published an update to "Initiatives by the BCBS, IAIS and IOSCO to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism" on Tuesday 1 February. Compiled from contributions by each of the three Secretariats, it focuses on recent guidance…
Minimum standards for securities settlement system
REPORT - Central banks and securities regulators release recommendations for securities settlement systems, 12 November.
Cross-sector financial disclosure (update)
An international regulatory working group has released a set of guidelines to prompt all financial institutions to reveal more information about the risks they are running.
Measuring regulatory success- by Alan Cameron
ARTICLE - Effective regulation cannot be measured by high-profile prosecutions or by counting boxes ticked. Financial regulators have much to learn from Professor Malcolm Sparrow's study of crime and environmental policing, argue Alan Cameron and Bill…