Banking Risk & Regulation Podcast
Banking Risk and Regulation is a podcast from FT Specialist, part of the Financial Times Group, providing exclusive insights for senior professionals in global financial risk, compliance, and regulation. It covers emerging risks and regulatory changes to help chief risk officers, compliance officers, and regulatory affairs directors make better decisions. The podcast is hosted on Acast.
Episodes
Drama at the FCA: can it survive?
Editor Farah Khalique discusses scrutiny of the UK's financial services regulator and calls for reform with The Banker's deputy editor, Liz Lumley. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
ESMA’s Verena Ross discusses the authority’s work on ESG, digitisation, data, benchmarks and cooperation with third countries
The European Securities and Markets Authority has a broad remit bringing it into contact with many areas of financial markets, at the wholesale and retail level. In this episode of GRR’s regulatory podcast series, Verena Ross, chair of ESMA provides insights into the authority’s work around: ESG and curbing greenwashingAnalysing and collecting markets data relating to regulations such as
The impact a digital euro would have on banks and the financial system - a discussion with the ECB
Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) could usher in a revolution in the financial system creating openings for exciting new innovations. However, depending on their design, CBDCs could be disruptive, particularly for deposit taking banks. The European Central Bank is currently studying designs for a potential digital euro. This has ignited a lively debate within policy making and banking c
Are stablecoins a threat to financial stability?
Stablecoins have seen explosive growth in the last year with the Bank for International Settlements estimating that as of late 2021, there were $120bn of them in circulation.This has caught the attention of regulators who are pondering whether these instruments will revolutionize finance in a beneficial way for society or could become a major financial systemic threat.To address those issues is Da
What impact will central bank digital currencies have on the financial system?
According to the Bank for International Settlements around 80 central banks are exploring or developing central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Some experts consider CBDCs to be among one of the most significant developments in the history of money. Depending on their design they could have a profound impact on the financial system and society. This podcast explores a range of issues re
How will crypto regulation shape the future of traditional financial services?
The rise of blockchain and crypto assets are going to profoundly influence the future development of financial services and are naturally of great interest to supervisors. How supervisors decide to regulate crypto will in itself play a major role in how traditional financial services adapt to this new phenomenon. This episode looks at the approaches being taken in the EU, UK, US and some
A conversation with the CEO Of the Dubai Financial Services Authority about ESG, crypto and regulatory reporting
Environmental, social governance (ESG) factors and the rapid rise of crypto assets and currencies and blockchain have all become major focal points for supervisors. This is necessitating, in some cases, new regulatory frameworks or adapting existing ones. In this episode, Bryan Stirewalt, the CEO of the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) shares his insights into how the authority is ap
Could central bank digital currencies revolutionise capital markets? A discussion with the Swiss National Bank
The potential introduction of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) could potentially upend bank business models depending on their design and implementation. It’s a topic, which has implications well beyond monetary policy and the nature of money. The rapid rise in the popularity of crypto currencies such as bitcoin, Facebook's plans around creating stablecoins backed by existing national
How might ESG impact prudential regulatory frameworks?
Prudential frameworks are designed to ensure banks can cope with risks and still remain solvent in the face of economic adversity. Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors have risen up the political and regulatory agenda due to issues such as increasingly extreme weather patterns through to growing concerns over social justice. Society increasingly expects banks, as capital allocat
How is IOSCO driving a global ESG agenda for securities markets?
Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) are undoubtedly going to remain one of the most high profile topics impacting policy and financial regulation for years to come. ESG brings with it a whole set of new data, disclosure and reporting requirements meaning there is a great deal of work to do to create new frameworks. There is also a strong agenda among international bodies to
How ready are corporates for the end of Libor after 2021?
The move from the London interbank offered rate compelled by regulators due to manipulation scandals towards alternative risk free interest benchmarks has been protracted and painful for those involved. Undoubtedly, much progress has been made with many sectors of the financial industry such as derivatives seemingly well prepared. But moving away from the financial sector towards corporates,
The Monetary Authority of Singapore plans to become the world’s leading technology driven central bank
Singapore is famous globally for its enthusiasm for technology and for pushing the envelope in this area. The Monetary Authority of Singapore very much follows in that tradition and is a pioneer in the use of supervisory technology (SupTech). It has a raft of projects designed to turn itself into the most advanced technology driven central bank in the world as it steadily digitises many of it
How are banks managing Covid-19 operational risks?
When governments across the world ordered population lockdowns to stop the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, banks had to quickly switch away from working in offices towards remote working - which has never been done before on such a big scale. This impacted almost the entire business from payments through to vast trading floors and all their support functions. This episode explores the operat
What does the future hold for the Basel framework?
Following the 2007-9 global financial crisis - the Basel framework underwent significant revisions. It’s partly thanks to these changes that banks entered the Covid-19 pandemic induced crisis in a robust condition. Nonetheless, it remains unclear how deep and prolonged the current downturn will be and how many bad loans banks will notch up in the process. Therefore, could there be furthe
How will global banking regulation shape up after Covid-19?
Regulators, central banks and governments have taken unprecedented measures to support the economy during population lockdowns around the world to stamp out the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Prudential regulators have also acted quickly to ensure banks help support the economy. This has involved measures ranging from payment holidays on some loans, to delayed reporting through to pushing b
What impact is IFRS-9 forward provisioning having on banks during the Covid-19 crisis?
The economic fall-out from the Covid-19 pandemic is the first major test for the IFRS-9 accounting standard, which only came into force in 2018. Global Risk Regulator chaired a discussion about how banks are interpreting the IFRS-9 standard, what approaches they’re taking to forward provisioning for bad loans and how they’re accounting for regulatory guidance around how they should provision
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