U.S. equities falter amid rising policy uncertainty, which is fueling weakening investor and consumer sentiment; at the same time, the Chinese stock market is well supported as optimism grows on both AI and clean tech sectors.
The Institute of International Finance (IIF) provided feedback on March 12 to the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) Exposure Draft on Provisions Targeted Improvements: Proposed amendments to IAS 37.
The Institute of International Finance (IIF) on 7 March provided feedback to the European Commission s Call for Evidence on creating a European Savings and Investments Union (SIU).
The February 2025 edition of the Global Regulatory Update provides targeted updates on current workstreams and events.
While well intentioned, certain prudential regulations can inadvertently curtail the degree to which multilateral development banks (MDBs) and development finance institutions (DFIs) can mobilize private capital for vulnerable low-income countries.
The IIF has published a Staff Paper on "Operational Resilience - A Brief History and the Road Ahead" which describes the evolution of operational as a regulatory concept and examines key challenges and open questions for the public and private sectors.
A high-level summary of regulatory and policy discussions at the 2024 IIF Annual Membership Meetings (AMM).
The October 2024 edition of the Global Regulatory Update provides targeted updates on current workstreams and events.
On October 9, the IIF submitted a response to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) issued a consultative document proposing Principles for the sound management of third-party risk in the banking sector .
The Q3 2024 U.S. Regulatory Update covers federal agency announcements, Congressional news, and senior regulatory appointments. This edition includes an update on the Basel III re-proposal, CFTC supervisory stress test results, and guidance on resolution plans by the Federal Reserve.
On August 28, the IIF and ISDA submitted a joint response to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision s (BCBS) consultation on Guidelines for counterparty credit risk (CCR) management.
On July 15, the IIF and ISDA submitted a comment letter to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's (BCBS) Discussion Paper on The role of climate scenario analysis in strengthening the management and supervision of climate-related financial risks.'.
The Institute of International Finance (IIF), together with GFMA and ISDA, has submitted a response to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) consultation on the global systemically important bank (G-SIB) revised assessment framework.
The IIF hosted its 2024 IIF Spring Meetings between April 15-22, alongside the IMF / World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington, DC.
On Thursday, March 28, the Institute of International Finance (IIF), working with other trade associations, submitted a comment letter to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) in response to a request for comment on the consultative document Cryptoasset standard amendments.
On Thursday, March 28, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) submitted a comment letter to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) in response to a request for comment on the consultative document Recalibration of shocks for interest rate risk in the banking book.
The Q1 2024 U.S. Regulatory Update covers federal agency announcements, Congressional news, and senior regulatory appointments. This edition includes the recent SEC Rule on climate disclosures and the Federal Reserve's 2024 stress test scenarios.
On Thursday, March 14, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) submitted a comment letter to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) in response to a request for comment on the consultative document Disclosure of climate-related financial risks. The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) co-signed the comment letter.
The February 2024 edition of the Global Regulatory Update provides targeted updates on current workstreams and events.
On February 16th, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) submitted a response to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Discussion paper on Digital fraud and banking: supervisory and financial stability implications.
The January 2024 edition of the Global Regulatory Update provides targeted updates on current workstreams and events.
On Monday, December 18, the IIF submitted a response to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Consultation on Transition Planning Guidelines for Financial Institutions.
The December 2023 U.S. Regulatory Update covers federal agency announcements, Congressional news, and senior regulatory appointments that have taken place within the last few months.
The IIF and ISDA have submitted a joint comment letter to the Basel Committee responding to their consultation on updates to the Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision.
On Tuesday, October 10, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) published a new report on The Role of The Financial Sector in the Net Zero Transition: Assessing Implications for Policy, Supervision and Market Frameworks.
The September 2023 U.S. Regulatory Update covers the latest federal agency announcements, Congressional news, and senior regulatory appointments, including Basel III Capital Proposals and new rules on cyber incident disclosures.
The August 2023 edition of the Global Regulatory Update provides targeted updates on current workstreams and events.
The April 2023 edition of the Global Regulatory Update provides targeted updates on current workstreams and events.
The March 2023 edition of the Global Regulatory Update provides targeted updates on current workstreams and events.
On February 6, the IIF submitted a comment letter on the U.S. Federal Reserve Board's (FRB) Draft Principles for Climate-Related Financial Risk Management for Large Financial Institutions.
The January 2023 edition of the Global Regulatory Update provides targeted updates on current workstreams and events.
The March 2022 edition of the Global Regulatory Update provides targeted updates on current workstreams and events.
The IIF, together with ISDA, submitted a response to the BCBS, CPMI and IOSCO consultative report on the topic of "Review of margining practices" on January 26.
The Institute of International Finance (IIF) and the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA) have submitted a joint response letter to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) supporting the draft principles put forward in their Consultative Document "Principles for operational resilience.".
The Institute of International Finance (IIF) and the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA) submitted a joint response letter to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s (BCBS) Consultative Document "Revisions to the principles for the sound management of operational risk.".
The IIF Regulatory Affairs Department is pleased to share a comprehensive summary of the key regulatory and policy discussions that took place during the IIF’s 2020 Annual Membership Meeting.
The October 2020 IIF Global Regulatory Update provides updates on current work streams.
The September 2020 IIF Global Regulatory Update provides updates on current work streams.
This staff paper discusses the heightened importance of coordination among an internationally active bank’s supervisors during the COVID-19 pandemic and suggests opportunities to continue enhancing supervisory coordination through the crisis and the recovery phase.
In this special edition of the Global Regulatory Update, Andres Portilla, Managing Director and Head of Regulatory Affairs, discusses with Bill Coen, former Secretary General of the Basel Committee and Chairman of the IFRS Advisory Council, the global regulatory and policy response to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
The April U.S. Regulatory Update covers U.S. regulators’ responses to COVID-19, the CARES Act, the recent FSOC meeting, the Fed’s stress capital buffer and CCAR announcements, and more.
The IIF commended the efforts taken by BCBS and IOSCO to address the challenges of the final phases of non-cleared margin implementation. However, it underscored that the efforts of our members to prepare are severely impacted by the global COVID-19 pandemic.
The March 2020 IIF Global Regulatory Update provides updates on current work streams.
The IIF is pleased to submit our comment letter on the BCBS discussion paper on designing a prudential treatment for crypto-assets.
The IIF submitted a Joint Associations response to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Consultation Paper on the topic of Targeted Final Revisions to CVA Risk on February 25.
On February 14, 2020 the IIF responded to a BCBS consultation on revisions to market risk disclosure requirements.
The February 2020 IIF Global Regulatory Update provides updates on current work streams.
The Institute of International Finance (IIF) on February 11th conveyed its financial services regulatory priorities for engagement with the new European Commission in a letter to Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis.
The Institute of International Finance on February 14th submitted a response to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Consultative Document on Voluntary Disclosure of Sovereign Exposures.
The IIF has commented on a Basel Committee Consultation on draft guidance for cooperation between AML/CFT and prudential supervisory authorities.
The January 2020 IIF Global Regulatory Update provides updates on current work streams.
We discuss the recent Basel Committee report on Open Banking and APIs with lead author Linda Jeng.
On January 13, the IIF responded to the Basel Committee’s recent report on open banking and application programming interfaces.
The annual RiskMinds International conference was held in Amsterdam during the first week of December, drawing an extensive Chief Risk Officer (CRO) community from all continents, including many of the regular participants in the IIF’s various regional CRO Fora.
Riksbank Governor Stefan Ingves discusses Sweden’s "cashless" economy, the potential eKrona digital currency, and the importance of staying the course in regulatory developments (with Brad Carr).
The June 2019 IIF Global Regulatory Update provides updates on Advocacy on Addressing Market Fragmentation, Evaluation of Too-Big-To-Fail (TBTF) Reforms and the Basel III Finalization & Cumulative Capital Impact Study.
The IIF submitted to the Basel Committee and to representatives of the Basel Policy Development Group this letter which sets out the key messages of our advocacy and industry's recommendations for addressing these issues.
The May 2019 IIF Global Regulatory Update provides updates on the Financial Stability Board along with current work streams in Regulatory Capital, Cyber Security, Digital Finance, Accounting, Sustainable Finance, Systemic Risk, Insurance and upcoming events.
The industry comment letter was submitted to the BCBS on March 14.
The final revised Basel III Market Risk standard was published on January 14th in the new ‘modular’ format. We have arranged for a comparison document/tool which provides a comparison between the standards and an overview of the differences between the text of the 2019 and 2016 market risk rules.
The IIF, our members and other associations developed an industry response to the BCBS consultation paper (CP) on "Leverage ratio treatment of client cleared derivatives.".
The IIF has submitted the response letter to the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) Consultation Paper - Enhancing banks’ and insurers’ approaches to managing the financial risks from climate change.
The Basel Committee on Bank Supervision finalised the Basel III Market Risk standard on January 14, 2019.
The December 2018 IIF Global Regulatory Update provides updates on current work streams in regulatory capital, recovery and resolution, accounting, cyber security, digital finance, sustainable finance, AML/CFT, insurance, and upcoming events.
The Task Force focused on more high level issues linking to the current developments in the ICS, Systemic Risk, as well as recovery and resolution pla.
The March Insurance Update provides targeted updates on IIF insurance activities and events, and highlights relevant IIF publications or related regul.
This newsletter is designed to provide a targeted monthly update on IIF insurance activities and events, and highlight some relevant IIF publications.
On January 31, the Joint IIF/GA ICP Working Group submitted its response to the public consultation on revised ICP 15 and 16, covering important topic.
The IIF is pleased to provide some specific requests for clarification on particular items in the final Basel III reforms that were announced on Decem.