This report is an update of the FSF's 2000 Report on Highly Leveraged Institutions and focuses on financial stability issues relating to hedge funds.
Publications
19 May 2007
6 September 2006
This cover note highlights and summarises those initiatives started during the previous six months, out of the initiatives in the attached Secretariat detailed note on work relevant to sound financial systems. Contact information for projects is also provided in the detailed note. The cover note also includes an overview of major ongoing international regulatory initiatives, […]
The Public Interest Oversight Board (PIOB) issued today its First Public Report. The PIOB was established in February 2005 to oversee the international standard setting activities of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) in the areas of audit performance standards, independence and other ethical standards for auditors, audit quality control and assurance standards, and education standards. […]
This note reviews some of the ways in which a global influenza pandemic may affect macroeconomic and financial stability and identifies areas which call for planning and coordination by financial system participants and authorities.
15 September 2005
27 March 2005
This final report, issued on a consultative basis in October 2004, contains a series of recommendations for market participants and supervisors in the areas of risk management, disclosure, and supervisory approaches.
21 October 2004
This consultative report responds to a request by the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) for the Joint Forum to undertake a review of credit risk transfer (CRT) activity.