Compendium of Standards

• 11 December 2022 G20/OECD High-Level Principles on Financial Consumer Protection

  The G20/OECD High-Level Principles on Financial Consumer Protection are the international standard for effective and comprehensive financial consumer protection frameworks.

  Content Type(s): Compendium Source(s): OECD Policy Area(s): Financial Regulation and Supervision Topic(s): Consumer and Investor Protection, Prudential Supervision and Oversight

• 14 December 2021 Guidance on Ways to resolve a financial cooperative while keeping the cooperative structure

  This Guidance Paper analyses ways to resolve financial cooperatives - especially non-systemic ones - while keeping its members, assets and liabilities in the cooperative system.

  Content Type(s): Compendium Source(s): IADI Policy Area(s): Financial Regulation and Supervision

• 30 November 2021 Good Practices for Crisis Management Groups

  This report sets out good practices that have helped Crisis Management Groups (CMGs) to enhance their preparedness for the management and resolution of a cross-border financial crisis affecting a Global Systemically Important Bank (G-SIB) as per the FSB Key Attributes.

  Content Type(s): Compendium Source(s): FSB Policy Area(s): Financial Regulation and Supervision

• 11 November 2021 Application Paper on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

  This paper provides guidance on money laundering and terrorist financing risks affecting the life insurance sector and proposes measures to mitigate the associated risks.

  Content Type(s): Compendium Source(s): IAIS Policy Area(s): Financial Regulation and Supervision

• 11 November 2021 Application Paper on Supervisory Colleges

  The Application Paper on Supervisory Colleges describes the processes and practices related to the establishment and functioning of supervisory colleges for insurance groups with cross-border activities. In particular, the paper supports observance of Insurance Core Principle (ICP) 3 (Information Sharing and Confidentiality Requirements) and ICP 25 (Supervisory Cooperation and Coordination).

  Content Type(s): Compendium Source(s): IAIS Policy Area(s): Financial Regulation and Supervision

• 1 November 2021 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Ratings and Data Products Providers

  The recommendations start with a proposal that regulators could consider focusing greater attention on the use of ESG ratings and data products and the activities of ESG rating and data products providers in their jurisdictions; followed by a set of recommendations addressed to ESG ratings and data products providers, setting out that they could consider a number of factors related to issuing high quality ratings and data products, including publicly disclosed data sources, defined methodologies, management of conflicts of interest, high levels of transparency, and handling confidential information; the recommendations also suggest that users of ESG ratings and data products could consider conducting due diligence on the ESG ratings and data products that they use within their internal processes; the recommendations close with suggestions that ESG ratings and data products providers, and entities subject to assessment by ESG ratings and data products providers could consider to improve information gathering processes, disclosures and communication between providers and entities subject to assessment.

  Content Type(s): Compendium Source(s): IOSCO Policy Area(s): Financial Regulation and Supervision, Institutional and Market Infrastructure

• 1 November 2021 Recommendations on Sustainability-Related Practices, Policies, Procedures and Disclosure in Asset Management

  The recommendations aim to improve sustainability-related practices, policies, procedures and disclosures in the asset management industry, and include guidance on product disclosure, supervision and enforcement, terminology, and the relevant financial and investor education.

  Content Type(s): Compendium Source(s): IOSCO Policy Area(s): Financial Regulation and Supervision, Institutional and Market Infrastructure

• 28 October 2021 Updated Guidance for a risk-based approach to virtual assets and virtual asset service providers

  The updated FATF Guidance for a risk-based approach to virtual assets and virtual asset service providers (VASPs) is intended to help countries and virtual asset service providers understand their anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing obligations, and effectively implement the FATF’s requirements as they apply to this sector.

  Content Type(s): Compendium Source(s): FATF Policy Area(s): Financial Regulation and Supervision

• 11 October 2021 Policy proposals to enhance money market fund resilience

  This report sets out proposals and considerations on how policy options could be selected and combined to address all the vulnerabilities arising from different types of money market funds (MMFs).

  Content Type(s): Compendium Source(s): FSB Policy Area(s): Financial Regulation and Supervision

• 1 October 2021 Principles on Outsourcing

  The seven principles set out expectations for regulated entities that outsource tasks, along with guidance for implementation.

  Content Type(s): Compendium Source(s): IOSCO Policy Area(s): Financial Regulation and Supervision, Institutional and Market Infrastructure