FSB Published Four Reports for G20 Finance Ministers Summit
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published four reports submitted to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors.
This updates the progress report made to the Pittsburgh Summit in September, and includes a description of the actions to date to implement the policy measures for improving financial regulation set out by the FSB in Pittsburgh. The areas on which it provides updates include:
2. Exit from extraordinary financial sector support measures
This note reviews policies to withdraw from exceptional financial support measures. Exit policies in this area should be pre-announced, flexible, transparent and credible. Although decisions on the timing of withdrawal of measures will depend on judgements on the strength of national financial systems, there are gains from advanced information exchange between countries and from stronger forms of co-ordination where cross-border spillover effects are potentially significant. The note includes a report by the staffs of the International Association of Deposit Insurers and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on strategies to unwind temporary deposit insurance arrangements.
This report by the IMF, Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and FSB responds to a request made by the G20 Leaders in April 2009 to develop guidance on this subject for use by national authorities. It outlines conceptual and analytical approaches to the assessment of systemic importance and discusses a possible form for general guidelines that would be sufficiently flexible to apply to a broad range of countries and circumstances.
4. The Financial Crisis and Information Gaps
This report by the staff of the IMF and the secretariat of the FSB identifies information gaps and sets forth proposals for strengthening data collection to better capture the build-up of risk in the financial sector, improve data on international financial network connections, monitor the vulnerability of domestic economies to shocks, and improve the communication of official statistics.