Financial Stability
September 29, 2021
Regulators move to clean up crypto as it goes mainstream
Regulators are stepping up moves to clean up the crypto sector, making it more palatable for supervised financial firms to...
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September 28, 2021
Unshackling securitisation is key to Europe’s post-pandemic recovery
Following the global financial crisis (GFC), new regulation was imposed to constrain the misuse of risky securitised products such as...
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September 28, 2021
ESMA defies bond sceptics to impose tougher transparency rules
The EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive/Regulation (MiFID/MiFIR) has divided opinion. Some celebrate it as a boost for consumer transparency,...
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September 28, 2021
Regulators turn focus to the ‘S’ in ESG
Until recently, the ‘S’ in ESG (environmental, social and governance) investment had been overshadowed by environmental problems such as the...
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September 27, 2021
Greensill Capital debacle prompts Sunak to order reviews
UK finance minister Rishi Sunak has ordered two reviews into the failure of supply chain finance firm Greensill Capital following...
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September 16, 2021
SEC warns Coinbase over proposed yield product
Following a string of crypto-related enforcement actions, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is now going after the country’s...
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September 16, 2021
UK banks wrapped over the knuckles on trade finance
The warnings could see the regulators demanding to see evidence of actions being taken to tighten compliance measures and ordering...
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August 27, 2021
US crypto regulation starts to take shape
For crypto exchanges or platforms issuing tokens, the US hosts a hostile and unpredictable regulatory environment. From July 1 2013...
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August 26, 2021
‘Shadow banks’ criticise EBA consultation as “overkill”
The European Banking Authority is consulting on what constitutes a shadow bank for the purpose of reporting large exposures, as...
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August 16, 2021
Is a single bank supervisor inevitable throughout the EU?
After the Great Recession and the subsequent euro currency crisis, the EU responded by proposing a banking union based on...
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August 13, 2021
Nasdaq-listed firms to meet board diversity targets
The move, reflecting the ‘S’ in environmental, social, governance (ESG), will pressure other exchanges and financial firms to follow suit....
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