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Financial market infrastructure refers to systems and entities involved in clearing, settlement, and the recording of payments, securities, derivatives, and other financial transactions. [1] Depending on context, financial market infrastructure may refer to the category in general, or to individual companies or entities (thus also used in ...
Section 804 of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (DFA) provides the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) the authority to designate a financial market utility (FMU) that it determines is or is likely to become systemically important because the failure of or a disruption to the functioning of the FMU could create, or increase, the risk of significant ...
A financial market must identify operational risks: both internally and across the market and its participants. Where appropriate, they should mitigate the risks through controls. [1] Systems used by the market must have a high degree of reliability and security, and must have sufficient capacity for the needs of the market. [1]
As of November 2011 when the G-SIFI paper was released by the FSB, [5] a standard definition of N-SIFI had not been decided. [9] However, the BCBS identified [when?] factors for assessing whether a financial institution is systemically important: its size, its complexity, its interconnectedness, the lack of readily available substitutes for the financial market infrastructure it provides, and ...
Financial regulation is a broad set of policies that apply to the financial sector in most jurisdictions, justified by two main features of finance: systemic risk, which implies that the failure of financial firms involves public interest considerations; and information asymmetry, which justifies curbs on freedom of contract in selected areas of financial services, particularly those that ...
The CSSF supervision of the financial sector aims at: [5] Promotion of a considered and prudent business policy in accordance with regulatory requirements; Protection of the financial stability of the regulated entities and the financial sector as a whole; Monitoring the quality of the organizational and internal control systems
Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) Syria: Central Bank of Syria ; Syrian Commission on Financial Markets and Securities (SCFMS) ; Syrian Insurance Supervisory Commission: Taiwan: Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) Tanzania: Capital Markets and Securities Authority (CMSA) ; Tanzania Insurance Regulatory Authority (TIRA ...
Financial regulatory authorities include those in charge of bank supervision; of securities regulation, often referred to as securities commissions; of anti-money laundering supervision of financial firms; and of consumer protection in financial services, and more generally of enforcing "conduct-of-business" requirements, not to mention ...