Global ETF News Older than One Year
IMF-Monetary Policy and Financial Stability
September 21, 2015--Summary:The issue of using monetary policy for financial stability purposes is hotly contested. The crisis was a reminder that price stability is not sufficient for financial stability, financial crises are costly, and policy should aim to decrease the likelihood of crises, not only rely on dealing with their repercussions once they occur.
It is clear that well-targeted prudential policies (including micro and macroprudential regulation and supervision) should be pursued actively to attenuate the buildup of financial risks.
The question is whether monetary policy should be altered to contain financial stability risks. Should it lend a hand by temporarily raising interest rates more than warranted by price and output stability objectives? Keeping rates persistently higher is also possible, but more costly.
Source: IMF
Harmonisation of the Unique Transaction Identifier (UTI), consultative report issued by CPMI-IOSCO
August 19, 2015--The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) have today published for public comment a consultative report entitled Harmonisation of the Unique Transaction Identifier (UTI).
G20 Leaders agreed in 2009 that all over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives contracts should be reported to trade repositories (TRs) as part of their commitment to reform OTC derivatives markets in order to improve transparency, mitigate systemic risk and protect against market abuse. Aggregation of the data reported across TRs is necessary to help ensure that authorities are able to obtain a comprehensive view of the OTC derivatives market and activity.
view the Harmonisation of the Unique Transaction Identifier report
Source: BIS
IOSCO publishes Report on Cross-Border Regulation
September 17, 2015--The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) today published the final report of the IOSCO Task Force on Cross-Border Regulation (Task Force).
The International experience of regulators in developing and implementing cross-border regulations in globalized securities markets has highlighted the challenges they face in ensuring the effectiveness of domestic regulation, without unduly constraining the cross-border offering of financial services or products. In June 2013, IOSCO established the Task Force to assist policy-makers and regulators in addressing these challenges and to consider in detail cross-border regulatory issues.
view the IOSCO Task Force on Cross-Border Regulation Final Report
Source: IOSCO
WEF-Blended Finance Vol. 1: A Primer for Development
July 15, 2015--This Primer, a product of the ReDesigning Development Finance Initiative (RDFI), aims to clarify the definition of 'Blended Finance', and provide practical insights on how development & philanthropic funders can use Blended Finance to meet their impact objectives and tools to address knowledge and execution gaps.
Source: WEF(World Economic Forum)
IOSCO publishes final report on Sound Practices for Investment Risk Education
September 15, 2015--The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) today published its final report on Sound Practices for Investment Risk Education.
The report identifies a number of sound practices for investment risk education initiatives, based on an analysis of the approaches and practices adopted by the members of the IOSCO Committee 8 on Retail Investors in designing and delivering their investment risk initiatives, as well as a review of literature on the topic.
view the IOSCO Sound Practices for Investment Risk Education Final Report
Source: IOSCO
BIS Quarterly Review, September 2015 EME vulnerabilities take centre stage
September 13, 2015--Investors increasingly focused on growing vulnerabilities in emerging market economies (EMEs), particularly China, as they reassessed the global growth outlook.
In China, equity markets plunged following a prolonged surge in stock prices that had propelled many stock valuations to extreme levels. This dented investor confidence and weighed on...
Source: BIS
World Bank-New Principles to Move on a Low Carbon Path, amid Growing Momentum for Carbon Pricing
September 20, 2015--Drawing on experiences with carbon pricing initiatives around the world, new research lays out principles for governments and businesses to develop successful and cost-effective schemes to put a price on social costs of greenhouse gas emissions.
The research by the World Bank Group, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation (OECD), with input from the International Monetary Fund, says that well designed carbon pricing schemes are a powerful and flexible tool that can cut emissions causing climate change.
view the World Bank report-State and trends of carbon pricing 2015
Source: World Bank
WEF-Mining & Metals in a Sustainable World 2050
September 11, 2015--Few industrial sectors are more fundamental to global social and economic development than mining and metals.
Important in themselves, representing more than $2 trillion in revenue, they also connect to the value chains of most other economic and industrial activities. They will face major challenges in the years to come. The future of our planet and of its finite, non-replaceable resources will be top of all serious agendas between now and 2050.
Source: WEF (World Economic Forum)
World Bank-Doing Business 2015: Going Beyond Efficiency
September 10, 2015--Doing Business 2015: Going Beyond Efficiency, a World Bank Group flagship publication, is the 12th in a series of annual reports measuring the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it.
Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 189 economies-from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe-and over time.
Source: World Bank
WEF-Deep Shift: Technology Tipping Points and Societal Impact
September 9, 2015--Digital connectivity enabled by the software technologies is changing the society fundamentally.
The scale of the impact and the speed of the changes taking place have made the shift so different from any other industrial revolutions in human history.
Source: WEF(World Economic Forum)
