Regulation
Central Bank of the UAE prepares to gain insurance powers
Insurance Authority is being merged into CBUAE as part of bid to become “top 10” central bank
Bank profitability affects impact of regulation – BIS paper
Rules for global banks only cut systemic risk among less profitable firms, authors find
BoE reassures foreign banks on post-Brexit booking models
EU banks that lost passporting rights after Brexit are unlikely to have to establish UK subsidiaries
BoE officials welcome stronger post-Brexit regulatory powers
Andrew Bailey says UK must not become a “rule-taker” on financial services
Regulators voice concerns over cloud risk
Failure of big cloud service provider could cause “a very large shock”, says NY Fed exec
FSB to tackle systemic risk in non-bank sector
Regulation likely but policy-makers want to avoid damaging an important funding source
Video Q&A: Andrew Geggus, BNP Paribas
Central Banking met with Andrew Geggus, global head of agency lending trading at BNP Paribas, to discuss what the bank has seen from the central banking community in response to the Covid-19 crisis, and how this has impacted the securities lending…
BoE’s Cunliffe: hedge funds played key role in March ‘turmoil’
Risk management actions by leveraged funds can destabilise the financial system, deputy says
EBA wants Basel to revisit prudential rules on software
Banking regulator set to soften capital impact of IT assets, but proposals are still out of line with US
World’s biggest IPO suspended after PBoC intervenes
Ant Group market debut suspended after Chinese authorities interview Jack Ma
Quarles: policy-makers have ‘work to do’ on non-bank fragilities
FSB chair outlines areas where non-banks may have amplified the Covid-19 shock
Fed mulls action on short-term funding markets
Randal Quarles says it is “disappointing” that the Covid-19 crisis carried echoes of 2008
Fed will calibrate NSFR to avoid hurting repo
Fed’s supervision head says final liquidity rule will be fast-tracked without fresh consultation
ECB changes largest eurozone banks’ leverage ratios
Latest emergency response to Covid-19 should raise banks’ leverage ratios by about 0.3%, ECB says
Bank investors still don’t think bail-in will happen, FSB told
Questions over bailing in bank bondholders mean problem of too big to fail persists, experts warn
Knot warns deviations from global standards must be temporary
“If the US starts distancing itself from international standards, that is quite something,” says Dutch central bank chief
Experiment finds bonus caps can reduce risk-taking
BoE paper says bonus caps can work, in contrast to earlier work by the central bank and comments by senior officials
UK’s ‘Big Four’ told to separate audit practices
Major shake-up of accounting firms comes in wake of the Wirecard scandal
FSB flags ‘gaps’ in too-big-to-fail reforms
Report highlights evidence reforms are working, but resolution remains imperfect and data limited
ECB to integrate climate risks into supervision
Climate change is pushing banks to adapt risk management, disclosure, governance and business strategies
BIS paper flags ‘barren patches’ in post-crisis reforms
Reforms have boosted “shock-absorbing capacity” but some problems persist, authors say
Basel III reforms pushed back to buy time for coronavirus response
Basel Committee chief says banks and supervisors need operational capacity to cope with the virus shock
PBoC takes on regulation of key financial infrastructure
Chinese central bank to take bigger role in regulation as country seeks to improve financial infrastructure
Basel III implementation creating fragmentation, warns FSI paper
Authors say some variation is good, but more could be done to cut fragmentation