The Financial Stability Board has published a progress report to the G20 on enhancing the resilience of non-bank financial intermediation. The aim of policies by the FSB to enhance NBFI resilience has been to reduce excessive spikes in the demand for liquidity, enhance the resilience of liquidity supply in stress, and enhance risk monitoring and the preparedness of authorities and market participants. The report sets out the recent and ongoing work by the FSB, in collaboration with standard-setting bodies, to enhance the resilience of the NBFI sector. The FSB notes that the design and implementation of NBFI policies continues to advance, albeit at an uneven pace across jurisdictions. The report includes a table which provides an overview of the FSB's medium-term NBFI work program. The report concludes by outlining further work to assess and address systemic risk in NBFI that the FSB, in collaboration with the standard-setting bodies, will carry out. The work is structured in three main areas: (i) in-depth assessment and ongoing monitoring of vulnerabilities in NBFI; (ii) the development of policies to enhance NBFI resilience; and (iii) the monitoring of the implementation and assessment of the effects of NBFI reforms. The FSB explains that this work will help it to determine whether collectively the reforms have sufficiently addressed systemic risk in NBFI, including whether to develop additional tools for use by authorities.
The FSB expects to publish by the end of 2024 a consultation report with proposed policy approaches for authorities. The FSB has also published a letter to the G20 which calls for further progress implementing NBFI reforms. It also highlights the FSB's recent stocktake report on regulatory and supervisory initiatives on the identification and assessment of nature-related financial risks. One issue the report considers is the perception of central banks and supervisors on whether nature degradation is a relevant financial risk.
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