At the London Summit, G20 Leaders set out actions to strengthen transparency and accountability, enhance sound regulation, promote integrity in financial markets and reinforce international cooperation. The Financial Stability Board (FSB) was asked to monitor progress in implementing these recommendations and to provide a report to the G20 Finance Ministers and Governors in November. This […]
Improving Financial Regulation Report of the Financial Stability Board to G20 Leaders 1. Since the London Summit, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and its members have advanced a major program of financial reforms based on clear principles and timetables for implementation that are designed to ensure that a crisis on this scale never happens again. […]
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.
In its April 2008 Report on Enhancing Market and Institutional Resilience ("the FSF Report"), the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) and its member bodies issued a comprehensive set of recommendations reflecting a consensus, both internationally and cross-sectorally, on the actions needed to address the fundamental weaknesses that have been at the root of the present turmoil […]
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 […]
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 […]
Consistent with statements made in the "Report of the Financial Stability Forum on Enhancing Market and Institutional Resilience" (7 April 2008) (FSF Report - April 2008), and as described more fully in a follow up to that report issued on 10 October 2008 (FSF Report - October 2008), the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) has set […]
