Podcast: Private Fund Regulatory Update: Post-U.S. Government Shutdown
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published its 2025 progress report on the implementation of its 2021 Climate Roadmap. The report provides a factual overview of progress made across four key areas: disclosures, data,...more
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published a letter from Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, who was appointed chair of the FSB from 1 July. In the letter, the chair confirms his commitment to the FSB's...more
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published a letter, along with a press release and webpage, from its Chair, Klaas Knot, to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors ahead of their meeting on 23-24 April. The...more
The Financial Stability Board has published its work program for 2025. Priority areas of work for 2025 include: - supporting global cooperation on financial stability: the FSB will continue monitoring global financial...more
The Financial Stability Board published a report containing a framework and analytical toolkit to assess climate-related vulnerabilities. The report introduces an analytical framework that the FSB will use to trace how...more
The Financial Stability Board has published a letter sent to the G20 leaders ahead of their meeting on November 18, 2024, together with the FSB 2024 annual report...more
In a recent valedictory press interview, the Secretary-General of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), Dietrich Domanski, posited that attempts to convince banks to combat climate change will be insufficient without financial...more
As concerns about the ecological and financial impacts of climate change have grown in recent years, so has the interest of insurance regulators in the exposure of the insurance industry to the risks raised by climate change...more
Climate change continues to preoccupy the public and policymakers, and a number of legal and regulatory initiatives in the US, UK, and elsewhere are currently underway that may affect insurers. This report provides a...more
The Financial Stability Board has published a letter to G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors outlining its work priorities for 2022, which are...more
Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) Chair Gary Gensler has repeatedly signaled his intention to begin requiring public filers to disclose climate change-related risks in quarterly and annual filings, citing...more
Federal Reserve Board (FRB) Vice Chair for Supervision Randal K. Quarles, who also is chair of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), gave a speech on July 11, 2021, to the Venice International Conference on Climate Change,...more
Last week (March 25, 2021), the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) released for public comment proposed guidance for New York domestic insurers on managing financial risks from climate change (the...more
The UK government has made another stride in its green finance ambitions – a consultation on mandatory climate-related financial disclosures for UK large corporates. The proposals, based on the Financial Stability Board...more
The past several months have taught us a lot about the interplay between global risks and the economy. With lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to evolve, climate change has earned a new spotlight as an analogous...more
The US prudential regulator is paying attention to climate risks, and will likely act to mitigate those risks if they threaten financial stability. In its November 2020 Financial Stability Report (the Report), the Board of...more
On August 1, 2019, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) issued CSA Staff Notice 51-358: Reporting of Climate Change-related Risks (the "Notice") that provides guidance on risk identification and disclosure by...more
The Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures has issued its 2019 status report outlining progress on adoption of the TCFD disclosure recommendations for improved climate-related financial disclosures by companies....more
On 16 June 2017, the Bank of England (BoE) published an article setting out its response to climate change, explaining that climate change and society’s response to it presents certain financial risks. These risks arise...more