This report sets out good practices that have helped Crisis Management Groups (CMGs) to enhance their preparedness for the management and resolution of a cross-border financial crisis affecting a Global Systemically Important Bank (G-SIB) as per the FSB Key Attributes.
Financial Regulation and Supervision
30 November 2021
Comprehensive reference on good practices for leveraging digital ID for enhancing financial inclusion.
This paper provides guidance on money laundering and terrorist financing risks affecting the life insurance sector and proposes measures to mitigate the associated risks.
11 November 2021
The Application Paper on Supervisory Colleges describes the processes and practices related to the establishment and functioning of supervisory colleges for insurance groups with cross-border activities. In particular, the paper supports observance of Insurance Core Principle (ICP) 3 (Information Sharing and Confidentiality Requirements) and ICP 25 (Supervisory Cooperation and Coordination).
The recommendations start with a proposal that regulators could consider focusing greater attention on the use of ESG ratings and data products and the activities of ESG rating and data products providers in their jurisdictions; followed by a set of recommendations addressed to ESG ratings and data products providers, setting out that they could consider a number of factors related to issuing high quality ratings and data products, including publicly disclosed data sources, defined methodologies, management of conflicts of interest, high levels of transparency, and handling confidential information; the recommendations also suggest that users of ESG ratings and data products could consider conducting due diligence on the ESG ratings and data products that they use within their internal processes; the recommendations close with suggestions that ESG ratings and data products providers, and entities subject to assessment by ESG ratings and data products providers could consider to improve information gathering processes, disclosures and communication between providers and entities subject to assessment.
1 November 2021
The recommendations aim to improve sustainability-related practices, policies, procedures and disclosures in the asset management industry, and include guidance on product disclosure, supervision and enforcement, terminology, and the relevant financial and investor education.