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Blended Finance: Implications for Supervisors

TC Note provides overview of blended finance for EMDC supervisors

Toronto Centre Note provides an overview of blended finance debates, considerations, and issues of interest for emerging markets and developing countries (EMDC) financial supervisors. It examines the constraints on the growth of blended finance in EMDCs, including possible regulatory barriers, and it explores the role that supervisors can play in supporting the expansion of blended finance while maintaining the soundness of the financial sector.

Publisher: Toronto Centre Release date: Jan 2021

Type: TC Notes

Topics: Financial inclusion

Sectors: Banking, Insurance, Microfinance, Microinsurance, Pensions, Securities

How Has Supervision Responded to Climate Change-Related Financial Risks?

TC Note sets out some international initiatives on climate change-related financial risks

Toronto Centre Note outlines some of the international initiatives focusing on climate change-related financial risks and sustainable financing, and highlights some of the specific areas on which national authorities should focus.

Publisher: Toronto Centre Release date: Dec 2020

Type: TC Notes

Topics: Climate change , Risk management

Sectors: Banking, Insurance, Microfinance, Microinsurance, Pensions, Securities

Cloud Computing: Issues for Supervisors

TC Note discusses benefits of cloud computing

Toronto Centre Note contrasts the observed and potential benefits of cloud computing outsourcing with the supervisory concerns that its growth raises, particularly from the perspective of EMDE supervisors. It discusses the regulatory and supervisory responses and highlights next steps for supervisors.

Release date: Nov 2020

Type: TC Notes

IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts: What Supervisors Need to Know

TC note discusses amendments to IFRS

Toronto Centre Note covers the amendments to IFRS 17 issued in June 2020 (see Appendix 1) and the plans that insurance supervisors need to develop and implement to facilitate a smooth transition to IFRS 17. It is based upon the final Standard as amended and a review of publicly-available resources to glean the insights of insurers and professionals involved in the implementation of IFRS 17. This Note discusses: i) how the key features of the Standards have been designed to meet the IASB's objectives; ii) the potential implications for insurers applying IFRS 17; iii) considerations of the adoption of IFRS 17 for regulatory and supervisory purposes based on the guidance of the Insurance Core Principles (ICPs) of the IAIS; and iv) the need for supervisors to understand the impact and steps to ensure preparedness and adequate supervisory oversight of transition and implementation.

Publisher: Toronto Centre Release date: Nov 2020

Type: TC Notes

Topics: Accounting, actuarial and auditing , Transparency and disclosure

Sectors: Insurance

Supervision of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

TC note on AML/CFT supervision

Toronto Centre Note provides guidance for the supervision of the implementation by financial institutions (FIs) of their obligations to implement measures to combat money laundering (ML) and terrorist financing (TF). It focuses on the actions to be taken by supervisors to ensure implementation of these obligations.

Publisher: Toronto Centre Release date: Oct 2020

Type: TC Notes

Topics: Money laundering and terrorist financing, Risk-based supervision

Sectors: Banking, Insurance, Securities

Exit Policy: Taking Supervisory Action to Deal with Non-Viable Financial Institutions

TC note discusses the most significant principles related to exit decisions

Toronto Centre Note pulls together the most significant principles related to exit decisions, including those providing the foundation for an exit decision that may ultimately be required. It is intended to help supervisory authorities, especially in jurisdictions where in-house resources are not extensive, to put in place an exit policy that will serve as a pragmatic guide to taking action to deal with failing financial institutions efficiently and confidently when the need arises. The Note also discusses the challenges of determining when an institution may be approaching a state of non-viability or be non-viable.

Publisher: Toronto Centre Release date: Oct 2020

Type: TC Notes

Peer: Recovery Planning , Resolution: Implications for Supervisors

Topics: Recovery and resolution

Sectors: Banking, Insurance, Pensions, Securities

Guide to Supervision in the COVID-19 World

TC Guide provides a framework for all financial supervisors and regulators to address the immediate and the longer-term consequences of COVID-19 on their financial sectors

Toronto Centre Guide to supervision in the aftermath of COVID-19 is intended to help the leadership of financial supervisory authorities to determine the implications of COVID-19 for how they undertake their supervision of financial institutions and financial markets. It complements and builds upon Toronto Centre Notes and webinars relating to the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Publisher: Toronto Centre Release date: Sep 2020

Type: TC Notes

Topics: COVID-19

Sectors: Banking, Insurance, Microfinance, Microinsurance, Pensions, Securities

Recovery Planning

TC Note discusses standards for recovery planning

Toronto Centre Note describes the standards for recovery planning, discusses how supervisors can monitor whether financial institutions are meeting these standards, and outlines the supervisory actions that can be taken by supervisors to improve a financial institution's recovery planning.

Publisher: Toronto Centre Release date: Aug 2020

Type: TC Notes

Peer: Recovery and Resolution Planning: Implications for Supervisors , Exit Policy: Taking Supervisory Action to Deal with Non-Viable Financial Institutions , Resolution: Implications for Supervisors

Topics: Recovery and resolution

Sectors: Banking, Insurance, Pensions, Securities

Resolution: Implications for Supervisors

TC note describes the main features of the FSB's approach to resolution

Toronto Centre Note describes the main features of the Financial Stability Board's approach to resolution and draws out some key implications for financial sector supervisors.

Publisher: Toronto Centre Release date: Aug 2020

Type: TC Notes

Peer: Exit Policy: Taking Supervisory Action to Deal with Non-Viable Financial Institutions

Topics: Recovery and resolution

Sectors: Banking, Insurance, Pensions, Securities

How Supervisors Can Improve the Effectiveness of Financial Education

TC note assists supervisors to develop practical recommendations for specific actions by supervisors

Toronto Centre Note sets out how supervisors can improve the effectiveness of financial education and literacy initiatives to improve consumer outcomes. Globally, there are significant and long-standing gaps in consumer understanding of key financial concepts and products, and how to access and manage such products successfully. Large gaps exist in both developing and developed countries, so development alone will not solve the problem.

Publisher: Toronto Centre Release date: Jul 2020

Type: TC Notes

Peer: Risk-Based Supervision , How Supervisors Can Improve the Effectiveness of Financial Education

Topics: Consumer education and protection

Sectors: Banking, Insurance, Microfinance, Microinsurance, Pensions, Securities

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Blended Finance: Implications for Supervisors

How Has Supervision Responded to Climate Change-Related Financial Risks?

Cloud Computing: Issues for Supervisors

IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts: What Supervisors Need to Know

Supervision of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

Exit Policy: Taking Supervisory Action to Deal with Non-Viable Financial Institutions

Guide to Supervision in the COVID-19 World

Recovery Planning

Resolution: Implications for Supervisors

How Supervisors Can Improve the Effectiveness of Financial Education

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