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CRYPTO ASSETS
- EBA and ESMA analyse recent developments in crypto-assets
- The EBA consults on draft technical standards on the prudential treatment of crypto assets exposures under the Capital Requirements Regulation
ECB
- Account of the monetary policy meeting of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank held in Frankfurt am Main on Wednesday and Thursday, 11-12 December 2024
- The economic outlook and monetary policy in the euro area – Speech by Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the ECB, at the 15th edition of Spain Investors Day
- Het Financieele Dagblad Interview with Frank Elderson, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the ECB, conducted by Arend Clahsen and Han Dirk Hekking
- Speech by Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the ECB, at the 15th edition of Spain Investors Day: The economic outlook and monetary policy in the euro area
- Der Standard: Interview with Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, conducted by András Szigetvari
- Further ECB documents
- Households and non-financial corporations in the euro area: third quarter of 2024
- Euro area quarterly balance of payments and international investment position: third quarter of 2024
- Euro area monthly balance of payments: November 2024
- Consolidated financial statement of the Eurosystem as at 10 January 2025
- Philip R. Lane: The euro area outlook and monetary policy
- Scientific papers by the ECB
- How tightening mortgage credit raises rents and increases inequality in the housing market
- Flexible asset purchases and repo market functioning
- Investment funds’ financial leverage – material and systemic?
- Central clearing and the growing presence of non-bank financial intermediation in euro area government bond repo markets
- System-wide implications of counterparty credit risk
- Assessing the impact of minimum haircuts on leverage
- Measuring synthetic leverage in interest rate swaps
- Leveraged investment funds: A framework for assessing risks and designing policies
- Strengthening risk monitoring and policy for non-bank leverage
- Time-varying risk aversion and inflation-consumption correlation in an equilibrium term structure model
- ECB Survey of Monetary Analysts (SMA), January 2025
- ECB Blog: Exploring an uncertain future with the help of scenarios
- Flexible asset purchases and repo market functioning
- System-wide implications of counterparty credit risk
- Assessing the impact of minimum haircuts on leverage
- Measuring synthetic leverage in interest rate swaps
- Leveraged investment funds: A framework for assessing risks and designing policies
- Strengthening risk monitoring and policy for non-bank leverage
- Time-varying risk aversion and inflation-consumption correlation in an equilibrium term structure model
ECB BANKING SUPERVISION
- Operational resilience in the digital age – ECB Supervision Blog
ESG
- The EBA consults on Guidelines on ESG scenario analysis
- European Banking Federation: Launch of the new C-ESG Risk Roundtable Data Workstream report
DORA
- ESAs publish study on feasibility of further centralisation of major ICT-related incident reporting by financial entities
EIOPA
- EIOPA’s Consumer Trends Report shows digitalisation is transforming insurance and pensions services
- Policyholders of the insurer NOVIS may face financial losses as no liquidator has yet been appointed
- EIOPA recommends that Bulgarian insurance supervisor FSC review its supervisory process for assessing undertakings’ solvency positions
ESMA
- ESMA: EU funds continue to reduce costs – at low and varying pace
- ESMA and the European Commission publish guidance on non-MiCA compliant ARTs and EMTs
- Ongoing ESMA Consultations
- Consultation on the Conditions of the Active Account Requirement under EMIR 3 until 27 January 2025
- Consultation on the technical Advice to the European Commission on the amendments to the research… until 28 January 2025
- Consultation on the draft technical advice concerning MAR and MiFID II SME GM until 13 February 2025
- Further ESMA documents
- SMSG advice on the Call for Evidence on potential further steps towards harmonising rules on civil liability pertaining to securities prospectuses under the Prospectus Regulation
- SMSG advice on the Consultation Paper on the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA) on the role and competence of the National Competent Authorities in supervising the crypto markets
- Service Level Agreement between the Hellenic Capital Markets Commission and ESMA for the validation of a significant CCP model change
- List of Synthetic Securitisations notified to ESMA
- Register of authorised European long-term investment funds (ELTIFs)
- Letter to IASB on the Exposure Draft Equity Method of Accounting
- Letter to EFRAG on due process on the IASB’s Exposure Draft Equity Method of Accounting
EBA
- The EBA repeals the Guidelines on major incident reporting under the revised Payment Services Directive
- EBA publishes its Peer Review on the application of proportionality under the Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process
- Final EBA Q&As
- 2021_6283 Provision of the “acquiring of payment transactions” payment service in the EU
- 2022_6336 Definition of electronic money
- 2022_6421 EMI’s application of negative interest rates to its clients
- 2022_6612 Information provided to the payee on individual payment transaction
- 2023_6675 Consideration of own funds requirements as a comparable guarantee to the PII
- 2023_6777 Exchange rate mark-ups part of ‘all charges payable’/’currency conversion charges’
- 2023_6790 Multi-licensed entity capital requirement
- 2023_6873 PISP payment order cancellation due to fraud prevention reasons
- 2023_6882 Safeguarding with a credit institition in a third country
- 2024_7185 Scope of public offering
- 2024_7232 Vega general interest rate risk and credit spread risk factors
- 2024_7231 Basis of calculation for the DRC for non-securitisations and SBM-CSR for non-securitisations – instruments guaranteed by a guarantor
- 2024_7230 Basis of calculation for the DRC for non-securitisations and SBM-CSR for non-securitisations – Individual ‘issuers’/‘obligors’ or ‘group of issuers/obligors’?
- 2024_7233 Seniority categories to use when offsetting the gross JTD amounts of short exposures and long exposures within the DRC calculations for non-securitisations
- Ongoing EBA Consultations
- Consultation on Regulatory Technical Standards on CCP to strengthen fight against financial crime – 4 DECEMBER 2024 – 4 FEBRUARY 2025
- Consultation on Technical Standards on structural foreign exchange under CRR – 28 OCTOBER 2024 – 7 FEBRUARY 2025
- Consultation on Guidelines on proportionate retail diversification methods – 12 NOVEMBER 2024 – 12 FEBRUARY 2025
EU PARLIAMENT REGISTER
- Newsletters – 2025 – Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
- AMENDMENTS 1 – 330 – Draft report European Semester for economic policy coordination 2025 – PE766.937v01-00
EU COUNCIL REGISTER
- ST 5004 2025 INIT AOB for the meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council of 21 January 2025: Current financial services legislative proposals – Information from the Presidency
- CM 1041 2025 REV 1 COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Economic and Financial Affairs)
- CM 1227 2025 INIT Code of Conduct Group (Business Taxation) – Subgroup on internal and external issues
- ST 17099 2024 INIT COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING DECISION amending the Implementing Decision of 13 July 2021 on the approval of the assessment of the recovery and resilience plan for Spain
- ST 5008 2025 INIT COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plan of Cyprus
- ST 5009 2025 INIT COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plan of Czechia
- ST 5010 2025 INIT COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plan of Denmark
- ST 5011 2025 INIT COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plan of Estonia
- ST 5013 2025 INIT COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plan of Greece
- ST 5014 2025 INIT COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plan of Spain
- ST 5015 2025 INIT COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plan of Finland
- ST 5016 2025 INIT COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plan of France
- ST 5042 2025 INIT Recommendation for a COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plan of Hungary
- ST 5017 2025 INIT COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plan of Croatia
- ST 5183 2025 INIT Amended recommendation for a COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION with a view to bringing an end to the situation of an excessive deficit in Hungary
- ST 5018 2025 INIT COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plan of Ireland
- ST 5016 2025 REV 1 COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plan of France
- ST 5030 2025 REV 1 Council Recommendations endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plans of 21 Member States
- ST 5030 2025 INIT Council Recommendations endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plans of 21 Member States
- ST 5041 2025 INIT Council statement regarding the 2025 Council recommendations endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plans of Member States
- ST 5019 2025 INIT COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plan of Italy
- ST 5021 2025 INIT COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plan of Latvia
- ST 5040 2025 INIT COUNCIL EXPLANATORY NOTE – Accompanying document to the 2025 Council recommendations endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plans of Member States
- ST 5023 2025 INIT COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION setting the net expenditure path of the Netherlands
- ST 5025 2025 INIT COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plan of Portugal
- ST 5029 2025 INIT COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plan of Slovakia
- ST 5028 2025 INIT COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plan of Slovenia
- ST 5027 2025 INIT COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plan of Sweden
- ST 16272 2024 INIT Directive (EU) 2021/2167 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2021 on credit servicers and credit purchasers and amending Directives 2008/48/EC and 2014/17/EU
EU COMMISSION REGISTER
- Recommendation for a COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION endorsing the national medium-term fiscal-structural plan of Hungary
- Amended recommendation for a COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION with a view to bringing an end to the situation of an excessive deficit in Hungary
- CORRIGENDUM to Commission Delegated Regulation of 10 October 2024 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards on information to be exchanged between competent authorities (C(2024) 6766 final)
BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS
- Quantum-readiness for central banks and supervisors
- Global standard-setting bodies publish three final reports on margin in centrally and non-centrally cleared markets
- Streamlining variation margin in centrally cleared markets – examples of effective practices
- Further BIS publications
- Origins and foundations of central bank independence
- The granular origins of inflation
- Completing the post-pandemic landing
- 2024 IFC Annual Report
- Transparency and responsiveness of initial margin in centrally cleared markets – review and policy proposals
- Streamlining variation margin processes and initial margin responsiveness of margin models in non-centrally cleared markets
- Elson Gaskin: The Frank Collymore Literary Endowment – literature enriches the tapestry of our nation
- Olli Rehn: Global economy – fragmentation, decoupling or slowbalisation?
- Pan Gongsheng: Speech – opening ceremony of the Asian Financial Forum
- Ryozo Himino: Japan’s economy and monetary policy
- Christopher J Waller: Challenges facing central bankers
- Sarah Breeden: Reading between the lines
- Kazuo Ueda: Achievement of the 2 percent price stability target and Japan’s economy
- Dynamics of Market Power in Monetary Economies
- Instantaneous Inflation as a Predictor of Inflation
- Nonparametric Time Varying IV-SVARs: Estimation and Inference
- Predicting College Closures and Financial Distress
- “Good” Inflation, “Bad” Inflation: Implications for Risky Asset Prices
- Missing Data Substitution for Enhanced Robust Filtering and Forecasting in Linear State-Space Models
- Air Pollution and Rent Prices: Evidence from Wildfire Smoke Plumes
- Labor Demand Responses to Payroll Taxes in an Economy with Wage Rigidity: Evidence from Colombia
- The International Exposure of the Canadian Banking System
- Quantifying the Signaling Role of Education
- Dynamics of Market Power in Monetary Economies
THE WORLD BANK
- Global Economy Stabilizes, But Developing Economies Face Tougher Slog
IMF
- Integrating the EU Energy Market to Foster Growth and Resilience – Remarks for EFC in January 2025
- Further publications by the IMF
- Transcript of World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update, January 2025
- Working Paper No. 2025/016 : Foreign Aid and Conflicts: The Effects of 9/11 on Donor Behavior
- Working Paper No. 2025/015 : Shocks and Shields: Macroeconomic Institutions During Commodity Price Swings
- Working Paper No. 2025/014 : State Capacity and Growth Regimes
- Working Paper No. 2025/013 : The Macroeconomic and Welfare Benefits of Building Resilience in Disaster-Prone Developing Countries
- Working Paper No. 2025/012 : Frayed Societies: Decoding the Interplay between Conflicts and Gender Inequality
- Working Paper No. 2025/011 : Portfolio Inertia and Expected Excess Returns in Currency Markets: Evidence from Advanced Economies
- Working Paper No. 2025/008 : Drivers and Effects of Residence and Citizenship by Investment
- Working Paper No. 2025/007 : Shocked: Electricity Price Volatility Spillovers in Europe
- Working Paper No. 2025/006 : Foreign Aid and (Big) Shocks: Evidence from Natural Disasters
- Working Paper No. 2025/005 : Immigration and Local Inflation
- Working Paper No. 2025/003 : Drivers of Inflation in the Caucasus and Central Asia
- Policy Paper No. 2025/001 : Considerations for the Comprehensive Review of Access Limits
- Departmental Paper No 2025/001 : Corporate Sector Vulnerabilities and High Levels of Interest Rates
FSB
- FSB examines the relevance of climate transition plans for financial stability
UNITED STATES
- FinCEN Convenes Virtual Summit of Financial Intelligence Units to Combat Nature Crimes in the Amazon Region
- FinCEN Announces Inflation Adjustments to Bank Secrecy Act Civil Monetary Penalties
- Federal Reserve Board announces it has withdrawn from the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS)
- Further publications by the U.S. Fed
- Federal Reserve Board announces the designation of the Chairs and Deputy Chairs of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks for 2025
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