Regulators put credit risk transfer in the spotlight

Leading financial services regulators have placed the credit risk transfer market under scrutiny to establish if instruments such as credit derivatives and synthetic collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) pose a threat to financial stability.

The Joint Forum – a body of international regulators covering the banking, securities and insurance industries chaired by Gay Huey-Evans, head of the markets division at the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) – is due to issue a final report investigating credit transfer over 13 jurisdictions in September.

The report, conducted at the request of the Financial Stability Forum – set up by international regulators in 1999 to promote financial stability – will look into a number of issues

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