ESRB report on sovereign bond-backed securities
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The report summarises the findings of the ESRB High-Level Task Force on the feasibility and impact of creating a market for SBBS as a tool to enhance financial stability. The…
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The operational efficiency of the ECBs crisis management
The ECA special report assessed the operational efficiency of the management of the ECB in relation to crisis management. The auditors found that the ECB has established a substantial framework…
Single Resolution Board: Work on a challenging Banking Union task started, but still a long way to go
In a special report the European Court of Auditors pointed to critical weaknesses and shortcomings in the build-up and work of the Single Resolution Board thus far. The auditors identified…
REPORT Financial Stability Conference 2017
The Financial Stability Conference 2017 was held October 18 in Berlin. A comprehensive report was compiled containing summaries of all speeches, impulses and discussions as well as three accompanying policy…
BCBS report on risk-weighted assets in the banking book
The report finds a reasonable relationship between estimates of probabilities of default and actual default rates. It also evaluates the variability in estimates of exposure at default for all asset…
ECB annual report on supervisory activities
The European Central Bank published its’ second report on supervisiory activities, giving an overview on the organisational set-up, financial stability issues, proceedings and the Single Supervisory Mechanism as well as legal…
Uneasy calm gives way to turbulence
In its’ quarterly review the Bank for International Settlements analyses international banking and financial market developments, warning that there is a gathering storm in the global economy, in part caused by…
Better Markets report: The cost of the crisis
The report details that the 2008 financial crisis and the economic fallout it caused will cost the United States more than 20 trillion US Dollar. It is a reminder that implementation of the financial reform…
Reducing excessive variability in banks’ regulatory capital ratios
A BCBS report sets out measures to improve consistency and comparability in bank capital ratios, including policy proposals to revise the standardised approaches for calculating regulatory capital ratios, and reducing…
Competition in the financial markets
In a report the German Monopolies Commission analyses the development and the regulation of financial markets since the outbreak of the crisis. It says that since the financial crisis core competition principles…