Non-bank financial institutions such as hedge funds remain vulnerable to a sudden financial shock and would not all be able to access the funding they would need in such a crisis, the Bank of England said on Friday. Announcing the …
The European Central Bank plans to test the cyber resilience of the euro zone’s top banks after a sharp rise in cyberattacks, including after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, ECB supervisory chief Andrea Enria told a Lithuanian newspaper. “Next year we …
Investment funds and other non-bank financial institutions face their first “stress test” next year to apply lessons from the near-meltdown in Britain’s pension fund sector, the Bank of England (BoE) said on Tuesday. The BoE had to step in from …
The Georgia General Assembly this week passed a bill that adopts National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ recommendations for insurance holding companies, including calculations for group capital and a framework for liquidity stress tests. House Bill 969 was requested by the …
France’s financial regulator will subject banks and insurers to climate change stress tests next year, central bank governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Friday. Investors are increasingly putting pressure on companies to make concrete steps to helping implement the …
The European Commission is considering stress tests and measures to force financial firms to raise their buffers against climate-change risks, the EU financial services chief said on Wednesday. The move would represent a major change in the bloc’s climate policy …
UK regulators need to widen stress tests for insurers to show how the whole industry, including themselves, would respond to an event on the scale of the 9/11 attacks, Hiscox Ltd. said. Unless the Prudential Regulation Authority, or PRA, can …
Continuing economic weakness in Europe and the debt crisis in the United States have elevated the risk profile of U.S. insurers, stirring insurance rating agency A.M. Best to stress test insurers for how they might be affected by the ongoing …
