IOSCO's recommendations aim to provide common standards for the regulation and management of money market funds (MMFs) across jurisdictions, articulated around some key principles of maturity, liquidity and credit risk. In addition, the aim of these recommendations is to supplement the existing frameworks where IOSCO considers there is still room for further reforms and improvements.
Risk Management
1 October 2012
30 September 2012
The Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision are the minimum standard for sound prudential regulation and supervision of banks and banking systems.
24 September 2012
The Joint Forum's final report on Principles for the Supervision of Financial Conglomerates provides a set of principles which supersedes the compendium of principles on this topic developed in 1999 and published in 2001 by the Joint Forum ('the 1999 Principles').
The principles provide a framework for jurisdictions to set minimum acceptable underwriting standards so as to limit the risks that mortgage markets pose to financial stability and to better safeguard borrowers and investors. The report also sets out an implementation framework through which jurisdictions can apply minimum lending standards, and describes tools that could be used to monitor and supervise these standards.
1 December 2011
The good practices reflect what pension regulatory and supervisory authorities usually expect to examine when assessing the risk management of pension funds that use alternative investments and derivatives.
1 October 2011
This report intends to identify effective regulatory mechanisms and tools for the nominee account system, develop recommendations to better regulate nominee accounts and help regulators address relevant investor protection issues.
1 October 2011
This paper reviews the differential premiums systems used by deposit insurers and, where appropriate, suggests guidance in the form of principles and effective practices in order to enhance the differential premiums systems used by deposit insurers.
1 October 2011
These recommendations are aimed at promoting market integrity and efficiency and at mitigating the risks posed to the financial system by the latest technological developments including high frequency and algorithmic trading.
2 September 2011
Credit reporting systems are a key element of countries' financial infrastructure. The General Principles (GPs) aim at strengthening credit reporting systems to effectively support the sound and fair extension of credit in an economy as the foundation for robust and competitive markets. To this end, the GPs promote safe and efficient credit reporting systems.
The document identifies supervisory guidelines associated with the development and maintenance of key internal governance, data and modelling frameworks underlying the Advanced Measurement Approaches for operational risk.