Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC)
Joe Biden’s slow road to remaking US financial regulation
Moves on climate risk could come early; other changes may have to wait until end of 2021, or later
Basis trades: a test case for regulating risky activities
FSOC is right to focus on dangerous behaviour, but Treasury meltdown reveals a complex chain of actors
Bailed-out basis traders face regulatory backlash
The cash/futures basis trade could be a test case for regulating systemically risky activities
Credit problem: SOFR faces uphill struggle in loan market
Furnishing Libor’s replacement with a credit-sensitive spread is proving to be a Sisyphean task
Gaps emerge in US plan to regulate non-bank systemic risk
Former regulators say FSOC may struggle to measure systemic risk in repo, loan markets
Realism or deregulation? Fed sidelined in oversight of insurers
Proposed activities-based approach to non-bank systemic risk will make Sifi designations less likely
Driverless insurance: regulating Prudential without the Fed
Scrutiny on largest US insurer should not be laxer than on second-tier US banks, experts warn
Prudential Financial growth at odds with Sifi repeal
US insurer has increased derivatives and repo books; grown total assets
Fed to push ahead with capital regime for single US insurer
Prudential faces risk capital add-ons unless it sheds “systemically important” label
Global regulation vice-president leaves MetLife
End of Sifi designation court fight reduces need for legal and lobbying work at US insurer
Insurers want clarity not compromise on G-Sii list
Insurance regulators must be clear about rut into which global supervision has slid
AIG decision threatens too-big-to-fail insurer label
Fragmentation of international rules on cards as US denounces systemic designations
Giancarlo: SLR change would cut clearing capital by 70%
Isda AGM: netting of clearing collateral would boost activity without weakening banks, claims CFTC chair
Mnuchin: FSOC working on revised Volcker rule
US Treasury secretary wants revamp of prop trading ban; not repeal
Scrap FSOC’s non-bank Sifi regime, Congress told
Designation process criticised at House hearing; senators call for review
CFTC set to flex its muscles in FSOC meetings
FSOC must study the impact of capital rules on trading liquidity, Giancarlo says
Federal insurance bodies defend role under Trump
Federal Insurance Office and Federal Reserve say work alongside state regulators critical for industry
Trump victory raises questions over future of FSOC
Risk USA: Former FSOC official cautions against scrapping supervisory council
FSOC focuses on non-cleared trades in buy-side Sifi debate
CFTC chairman sees ‘very important distinction’ in cleared versus uncleared trades
FSB holds too much sway over US regulators, say Republicans
Lew faces questions in Congress over FSB impact on US banks and markets
Interview: Natasha Cazenave on systemic risk in asset management
Chair of Iosco’s investment management committee welcomes “shift in the debate to an activities focus”
Leverage puts hedge funds in the systemic-risk spotlight
Regulatory attention shifting to hedge fund users of derivatives
The academic insights behind fears of a buy-side crunch
Risk of fire sales by highly levered funds is chief worry among influencers of regulatory thinking
IAIS under pressure to learn from FSOC mistakes
G-Siis see MetLife opinion as strengthening their case against aspects of international regulation