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Correspondent banking

The CPMI sets out five recommendations to help alleviate some of the costs and concerns affecting correspondent banking activities.

Guidance on cyber resilience for financial market infrastructures

View the Standard The Cyber Guidance aims to add momentum to and instil international consistency in the industry’s ongoing efforts to enhance its cyber resilience. The Cyber Guidance aims to enhance the ability of Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) to pre-empt cyber-attacks, respond rapidly and effectively to them, and achieve faster and safer target recovery objectives […]

Global Systemically Important Insurers: Updated Assessment Methodology

The document sets out an updated Assessment Methodology (2016 Methodology) for global systemically important insurers (G-SIIs).

Systemic Risk from Insurance Product Features (previously referred to as Non-traditional Noninsurance activities and products)

The document provides a framework that explains why certain product features and related activities may raise the potential for an insurer to pose systemic risk upon failure, and describes the rationale for the IAIS’ discontinuation of the Non-traditional Noninsurance (NTNI) product label.

Payment aspects of financial inclusion

The guiding principles for advancing financial inclusion through payments seek to tackle barriers to the adoption and usage of transaction accounts, which sit at the heart of retail payment services.

Guidance for a risk-based approach for money or value transfer services

This non-binding Guidance is intended to assist countries and their competent authorities, as well as the practitioners in the Money or Value Transfer Services (MVTS) sector and in the banking sector that have or are considering MVTS providers as customers, to apply the risk-based approach associated to MVTS.

Special Data Dissemination Standard Plus

The SDDS Plus was established in 2012 and builds on the SDDS to guide member countries on the provision of economic and financial data to the public to address data gaps revealed during the global financial crisis. The Guide for Adherents and Users provides guidance on the observance of the SDDS Plus requirements and elaborates in detail on the requirements for the nine data categories that are additional to the SDDS.

System of National Accounts

The System of National Accounts (SNA) is the internationally agreed standard set of recommendations on how to compile measures of economic activity in accordance with strict accounting conventions based on economic principles.

Application Paper on the Regulation and Supervision of Captive Insurers

This paper provides guidance to insurance supervisors on the application of aspects of regulation and supervision specifically relevant to captive insurers or reinsurers.

Regulatory framework for haircuts on non-centrally cleared securities financing transactions

The regulatory framework for haircuts on non-centrally cleared securities financing transactions (SFTs) is intended to limit the build-up of excessive leverage outside the banking system, and to help reduce procyclicality of that leverage.