The Financial Stability Board is devising a process to standardise the collection and global aggregation of data from a key element of shadow banking activities.

The Financial Stability Board has postponed designating reinsurers as global systemically important financial institutions, pending further work on designation criteria.

The European Parliament will resume discussions of a comprehensive EU regulation of financial benchmarks, but current proposals will need refining.

The European Parliament rapporteur for money market fund reform wants to create a new category of government bond funds.

Jens Weidmann of the Deutsche Bundesbank wants an end to zero-risk weighting for bank holdings of sovereign debt in the eurozone, but the costs of this transition could be high.

A committee of financial academics has called on European leaders to reduce ambiguities over who has the power to resolve failing banks in the eurozone.

A dispute between the US and EU over bail-in debt has forced the Financial Stability Board to change tack on cross-border resolution.

Regulators have identified asset management as a potential source of systemic risk, but the industry insists there should not be an entity focus.

The European Commission has eased rules on securitisation for banks and insurers, but may have neutered bank liquidity regulation in the process.