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Reducing the Moral Hazard Posed by Systemically Important Financial Institutions

This report recommends a policy framework for addressing the systemic and moral hazard risks associated with systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs).

Intensity and Effectiveness of SIFI Supervision: Recommendations for Enhanced Supervision

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, the FSB and the G20 Leaders have identified as a priority the need for more intense and effective supervision particularly as it relates to systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs). The level of supervision applied by national authorities must be commensurate with the potential destabilization risk that such firms […]

Interim report to G20 Leaders on Reducing the Moral Hazard Posed by SIFIs

This report seeks the endorsement of the G20 Leaders for the overall direction of work on the development of a policy framework for reducing the moral hazard risks posed by SIFIs.

The Financial Crisis and Information Gaps – Action Plans and Timetables

This report sets out a summary table of the progress to date, and the proposed action plans going forward, with timetables, in addressing the 20 G20 endorsed recommendations.

Guidance to Assess the Systemic Importance of Financial Institutions

The attached report and background paper respond to a request made by the G20 Leaders in April 2009 to develop guidance for national authorities to assess the systemic importance of financial institutions, markets and instruments. The report outlines conceptual and analytical approaches to the assessment of systemic importance and discusses a possible form for general […]

Guidance to Assess the Systemic Importance of Financial Institutions

To inform the preparation of the paper, country authorities were surveyed on their experiences with identifying systemically important institutions, markets and instruments. Feedback on an initial draft questionnaire, coordinated by the IMF, FSB and BIS, was sought from counterparts at several central banks (see Attachment). The finalized questionnaire was subsequently sent out to the central […]

The Financial Crisis and Information Gaps

The report identifies the main financial and economic information gaps based on the experience of the recent financial crisis and presents recommendations for closing them.