By European Central Bank Risks to financial stability in the euro area have increased amid soaring energy prices, elevated inflation and low economic growth, the November 2022 Financial Stability Review published today by the European Central Bank (ECB) shows. At the same time, financial conditions have tightened as central banks act to rein in inflation.[…]
By European Central Bank The European Central Bank (ECB) today published the results of its thematic review, which shows that banks are still far from adequately managing climate and environmental risks. The ECB is now setting staggered deadlines for banks to progressively meet all the supervisory expectations it laid out in its Guide on climate-related[…]
By Ralph De Haas and Çağatay Bircan After years of rising indebtedness and the Covid-19 pandemic, financially weak firms are constraining business dynamism across emerging Europe. This fourth in series of five columns looks at zombie lending and its economic implications. Zombie lending – the evergreening of cheap loans to unviable firms – turns out[…]
By Naoto Takemoto, Simon Jurkatis, and Nicholas Vause In less than two decades, the system of market-based finance (MBF) – which involves mainly non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) providing credit to the economy through bonds rather than loans – has both mitigated and amplified the economic effects of financial crises. It mitigated effects after the global[…]
By Bassel Committee The Basel Committee provides additional information regarding the 2022 G-SIB assessment. Further details of the assessment include global denominators and individual bank indicators.The release accompanies the Financial Stability Board’s updated G-SIB list. These additional details will help understand the scoring methodology which assesses the systemic importance of global banks using indicators calculated[…]
By Press Financial Stability Board This press release reports that the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published the 2022 list of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) using end-2021 data and applying for the first time the revised assessment methodology published in 2018 by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS). The BCBS published updated denominators used[…]
By Alain Naef, Eric Monnet, Camille Macaire, Arnaud Mehl, Barry Eichengreen The share of China’s renminbi in global reserve portfolios is around 3%, compared to 60% for the US dollar. This column argues that the renminbi can play a more important role in the future, even in the absence of full financial liberalisation. This process[…]