The attached report and background paper respond to a request made by the G20 Leaders in April 2009 to develop guidance for national authorities to assess the systemic importance of financial institutions, markets and instruments. The report outlines conceptual and analytical approaches to the assessment of systemic importance and discusses a possible form for general […]
Policy Documents
To inform the preparation of the paper, country authorities were surveyed on their experiences with identifying systemically important institutions, markets and instruments. Feedback on an initial draft questionnaire, coordinated by the IMF, FSB and BIS, was sought from counterparts at several central banks (see Attachment). The finalized questionnaire was subsequently sent out to the central […]
29 October 2009
The report identifies the main financial and economic information gaps based on the experience of the recent financial crisis and presents recommendations for closing them.
The Implementation Standards set out detailed specific proposals on compensation governance, structure and disclosure to strengthen adherence to the FSB Principles for Sound Compensation Practices.
2 April 2009
The Principles are intended to reduce incentives towards excessive risk taking that may arise from the structure of compensation schemes.
The recommendations cover the following areas: the bank capital framework, bank loan loss provisions, and leverage and valuation.
The objective of financial crisis management is to seek to prevent serious domestic or international financial instability that would have an adverse impact on the real
economy.
The objective of financial crisis management is to seek to prevent serious domestic or international financial instability that would have an adverse impact on the real economy. In so doing, authorities will be mindful of the impact interventions may have on the public purse and will, as far as possible: maintain incentives for financial institutions […]
This note aims to provide an overall framework that could help evaluate policy options to address the procyclicality of the financial system. While the framework is general in nature, the note focuses exclusively on options for prudential and financial reporting arrangements and the associated risk management and incentives issues. It therefore excludes other possible policy […]
2 April 2009
This note sets out recommendations to address the potential procyclicality of the regulatory capital framework for internationally active banks. Some of these recommendations are focused on mitigating the cyclicality of the minimum capital requirement, while maintaining an appropriate degree of risk sensitivity. Other measures are intended to introduce countercyclical elements into the framework. The recommendations […]