Six EU securities regulators coordinate the lifting of their short selling bans, but have left open the possibility of reimposing them should extreme volatility reignite again

The Covid-19 pandemic is not only taking monetary and fiscal policy into new territory, but is also having an impact on how banks provision for bad loans under IFRS-9 accounting standards  

With the world once again in crisis, this time due to the Covid-19 pandemic, supervisory attention is turning to shadow banks for fear they might be harbouring hidden systemic risks. 

Concern increases that temporary extraordinarily prudential measures pursued by various jurisdictions could become permanent and undermine the Basel framework.

Bouts of liquidity shortages in key capital markets, such as in US Treasuries, has seen some in the industry call for a rethink of rules governing markets and their participants

With Europe sliding into a deep economic slumber following the Covid-19 pandemic, questions are being asked about the state of some the continent’s banks and whether BRRD is up to resolving them if it comes to that

Around 1000 smaller financial firms have been granted another year by global standard-setters to comply with margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives due to the Covid-19 fallout.

Banks have around 70-90% of their staff working at home because of the Covid-19 pandemic, which is a nightmare for compliance staff as a lot of activity is now far less supervised