Financial Stability Board (FSB)
Insurers must prepare for far-reaching 'living wills' requirements
Systemically important international insurers will be required to design their own recovery and resolution plans in case of severe financial distress, as part of new requirements by regulators to protect the wider financial system. But there are fears…
Prudential Financial Sifi appeal ‘futile’
US insurers face re-designation if initial determination overturned
Reinsurers question separation of systemic risk designations
Regulators will publish separate lists for systemically important insurers and reinsurers a year apart
Fears of disjointed regulation of systemically risky insurers grow
Harmonisation of US and global systemic risk frameworks needed as US proposes first Sifis, warns industry think tank
Lack of co-ordination of bank resolution regimes behind subsidiarisation push
Asia still behind on global rules forcing subsidiarisation of foreign banks in the region
Systemic risk debate hots up over variable annuities and ILS
In defence of the non-traditional
Designation of systemically important insurers hit by delay
Publication of list pushed back from April
AML and framework change at Nordea
Anders Meinert Jørgensen, head of group operational risk at Nordea, talks AML awareness and pace of framework change at the bank
Global margin standards face further delays
Proposals to collateralise non-centrally cleared derivatives could now be subject to further consultation and impact assessment, having missed the original end-of-2012 deadline
Banks should give more info on RWAs and models, says FSB
It is impossible for investors to understand modelling differences between banks, FSB report warns
Systemic risk methodology continues to worry insurers
Punitive reform
Regulators focus on LEIs in derivatives reporting push
Identification parade
Central banks working on liquidity support for CCPs, says BoE’s Tucker
International regulators and central banks trying to avoid "nightmare" of fragmented clearing system
New Esma ETF guidelines change the rules on securities lending in favour of synthetics
The latest European Securities and Markets Authority guidelines for Ucits ETFs will make life more difficult for physically backed ETFs and point to a growing acceptance of synthetic funds
Risk 25 firms of the future: Bank of England
CCPs will not be too big to fail
A fragmented market with unfinished rules – but reporting deadline looms
All together now?
ETFs under the microscope
Under the microscope
Don’t rush into regulating shadow banking sector, IIF warns
A new report from the IIF warns regulators to consider different approaches to shadow banking regulation
The ETN that grew too fast
The ETN that grew too fast
A crisis of identity, part two
A crisis of identity, part two
Managing the regulatory patchwork to ensure global consistency
Managing the regulatory patchwork