Credit risk transfer has grown quickly, often with complex products, and provides concrete benefits to the global financial system. The benefits of credit risk transfer (CRT) are well understood and have not changed since the Joint Forum’s first CRT report in 2005. CRT allows credit risk to be more easily transferred and potentially more widely […]
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29 March 2008
This cover note highlights and summarises those collective and multilateral initiatives started 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, including information on their schedules for public consultation and target dates for finalisation, […]
6 March 2008
6 March 2008
Senior Supervisors Group Report – transmittal letter.
These guidelines provide a framework for licensing regulations and the assessment of licensing applications from pension entities.
9 February 2008
FSF sets out policy directions for strengthening the resilience of the financial system The FSF’s Working Group on Market and Institutional Resilience has sent an interim report to G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors. It discusses the Working Group’s views to date on adjustments and near-term challenges in the financial system; the causes of […]
Financial Stability Forum Chairman Welcomes Hedge Fund Manager Initiative on Best Practice Standards
22 January 2008
1 November 2007
This document sets out principles related to two important topics in the implementation of the Advanced Measurement Approaches (AMA) for operational risk under Basel II.
1 November 2007
This document sets out principles for valuing the investment portfolios of hedge funds that are designed to mitigate the structural and operational conflicts of interest that may arise between the interests of the hedge fund manager and the interests of the hedge fund.