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Payments & Settlements
CPMI to Define Service Level Template for Cross-border Payments
By Editors | 13/12/2021
Agreed service levels will establish consistency and certainty for all cross-border payment stakeholders based on a common framework, CPMI says.
Clearing & Post-Trade
CPMI, IOSCO Consider Client Clearing Access Models
By Editors | 29/11/2021
Improving access to client clearing is “critical” to ensuring all standardised OTC derivatives contracts are cleared through CCPs.
Payments & Settlements
CPMI Proposes to Extend & Align RTGS Operating Hours
By Editors | 19/11/2021
CPMI proposes to align RTGS operating hours so they can be used for cheaper, faster, and safer cross-border payments.
Market Risk
International Standard Setters Launch Review into Margin Practices
By Editors | 26/10/2021
While centrally cleared and non-centrally cleared markets faced similar levels of volatility in March and April 2020, IM requirements increased significantly only for centrally cleared derivatives.
Cryptocurrency
Crypto Asset Regulation “A Matter Of Urgency”, says BOE
By Mark Johnston | 18/10/2021
Deputy governor Jon Cunliffe says a “plausible scenario” involving a collapse in crypto-asset prices would have financial stability implications.
Stablecoins
FSB Takes Stock of Progress to Regulate ‘Global Stablecoins’
By Mark Johnston | 08/10/2021
The FSB highlights concerns that new regulatory regimes for global stablecoins could give rise to regulatory arbitrage and harmful market fragmentation.
Payments & Settlements
CPMI Calls for Solutions to Expand PvP Settlement
By Editors | 08/10/2021
Banks and fintechs are invited to share their views on potential solutions to expand PvP settlement to further mitigate FX settlement risk in global markets.
Stablecoins
PFMI Applies to Global Stablecoins, CPMI & IOSCO Confirm
By Editors | 07/10/2021
The transfer function of a stablecoin arrangement is “comparable” to the transfer function performed by other types of financial market infrastructures.
Cryptocurrency
Lack of Crypto Regulation Presents Financial Stability Risk: IMF
By Mark Johnston | 05/10/2021
The IMF says more coordination among national regulators is needed to ensure effective enforcement, reduce regulatory arbitrage, and enhance monitoring of the crypto ecosystem.
Cybersecurity
Industry Group Considers Options for Protecting Data at FMIs
By Editors | 23/09/2021
There is no standard approach to identifying the types of data that need to be protected, nor the manner in which that data should be protected.
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