Climate Risk and Financial Systems of Latin America: Regulatory, Supervisory and Industry Practices in the Region and Beyond
Gianleo Frisari,
Matías Gallardo,
Chiemi Nakano,
Víctor Cárdenas and
Pierre Monnin | 18 December 2019
Monetary,
Discussion Notes | Tags:
Central Banks,
Climate Risk,
Financial Regulation,
Green Finance,
Latin America In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), regional supervisors and regulators have not yet explicitly included nor addressed climate-related risks in binding regulations and/or supervisory measures for the financial sector. This implies significant work ahead for the LAC financial sector to develop effective and complete
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Governing Finance for Sustainability – Panel Discussion
16 October 2019 | Washington D.C., USA | By Invitation Monetary,
Panel | Tags:
Central Banks,
Financial Regulation,
Governing Finance The nexus between financial governance, macroeconomic and financial stability, social cohesion, and environmental sustainability has become the subject of a growing debate among policymakers and market participants. Current beliefs on central banking and financial regulation are being questioned in the face of systemic challenges such
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Governing Finance for Sustainability – Pathways Forward
15 October 2019 | Washington D.C., USA | By Invitation Monetary,
Roundtables | Tags:
Central Banks,
Financial Regulation,
Governing Finance This is the third in a series of roundtables on Governing Finance for Sustainability. Details on the first roundtable can be found here, and the second here.
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Governing Finance for Sustainability – Advancing the Debate
8-9 July 2019 | Zurich, Switzerland | By Invitation Monetary,
Roundtables | Tags:
Central Banks,
Financial Regulation,
Governing Finance Since the initial roundtable that was held in January 2019 we have been carefully following the debate on governing finance in what we increasingly perceive to be a four-way nexus between growing risks in today's financial and monetary systems, the power of central banks and
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Trade Policy Priorities for Financial Services
21 June 2019 | Geneva, Switzerland | By Invitation Roundtables,
Trade | Tags:
Financial Regulation,
Services Trade International financial service providers account for a key part of global services flows and have been a historic catalyst of services trade negotiations. Yet, countries today are reluctant to undertake deeper international commitments in financial services
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Prudential Regulation Can Help in Tackling Climate Change
Paola D'Orazio,
Lilit Popoyan and
Pierre Monnin | 13 February 2019
Monetary,
Blog | Tags:
Environment,
Financial Regulation Awareness of climate-related financial risks has been growing in the past years. Prudential frameworks however still fall short in reflecting them. Given the possible impacts of climate risks on financial stability, incorporating them into prudential regulation is rapidly moving up agendas both among academics and
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Governing Finance and Sustainability
21-22 January 2019 | Zurich, Switzerland | By Invitation Monetary,
Roundtables | Tags:
Central Banks,
Financial Regulation,
Governing Finance As highlighted by Benoît Coeuré from the ECB in his keynote on “Monetary Policy and Climate Change” last November, there is an accelerating momentum to move sustainability up financial market agendas worldwide. A key aspect of this development is the growing acceptance that the nexus
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Climate Change and Finance: What Role for Central Banks and Financial Regulators?
Emanuele Campiglio,
Yannis Dafermos,
Pierre Monnin,
Josh Ryan-Collins,
Guido Schotten and
Misa Tanaka | 7 September 2018
Monetary,
Blog | Tags:
Central Banks,
Climate Change,
Environment,
Financial Regulation Climate change poses risks to the financial system. Yet our understanding of these risks is still limited. As we explain in a recent paper published in Nature Climate Change, central banks and financial regulators could contribute to the development of methodologies and modelling tools for
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Financial Stability and Inequality: A Challenge for Macroprudential Regulation
Pierre Monnin | 5 June 2018
Monetary,
Blog | Tags:
Central Banks,
Financial Regulation,
Financial Stability,
Inequality,
Macroprudential Policy The global financial crisis shed new light on the role that central banks play for financial stability. In response to the financial turmoil, central banks took radical action to stabilize the financial system, by providing liquidity to banks and buying up financial assets. Following these
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Central Banking and Green Finance
28-29 November, 2017. Co-organized with De Nederlandsche Bank Monetary,
Workshops | Tags:
Climate Change,
Financial Regulation,
Green Finance When the Leaders of the G20 met in China in 2016 they highlighted the necessity to scale up green financing. They also endorsed efforts to “provide clear strategic policy signals and frameworks” to target this objective. The question to what extent central banks can and
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