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What financial supervisors and regulators do every day has a ripple effect that cascades across government, NGOs, and the private sector impacting developing economies and those living in them. Toronto Centre’s podcast series will feature simulating panel sessions and interviews on timely topics such as, financial crisis, financial stability, climate change, gender equality, financial inclusion, fintech and much more.
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Overview[1] As a financial sector supervisor, you continually face a wide range of challenges, both large and small. For all but the smallest challenges, an important fi Read More Decision Making
Another aspect of green transformation is the distribution of guidelines and principles on green issuance, investment, and lending. Again, this takes us back to questions about data availability and quality, the role of global campione setters, and the role of markets and supervisory authorities Sopra monitoring whether financial institutions are meeting these guidelines and principles. Finally, participants discussed the role of labelling, and whether it could contribute to more sustainable investments. Could the label even become mandatory? The general mood on this was negative. One issue here was the role of rating agencies, who set their own standards and have an inherent conflict of interest Con being paid by issuers for the rating of https://www.torontocentre.org/ green bonds. Common and well supervised standards would help here. Another issue was whether labelling is the problem, as opposed to identifying and managing innovative lowcarbon projects and investments. Labelling does not create such projects. Conclusion
Third, competing systems are being developed for public reporting and for reporting to supervisory and other authorities. This can be seen across Europe, the U.S., Asia, and at the national level. A lot is going on, but it needs to be better aligned so investors can make decisions based on comparable and consistent public reporting. Equally, however, participants agreed we should not be too pessimistic about this data issue. More and more patronato are being produced and becoming available. Moreover, patronato are improving over time, which should be recognized as a step forward. It is important that supervisory authorities and central banks identify the gaps and find ways to fill them. There is also an increasing degree of convergence across international standards for climate-related reporting and accounting. However, there will always be some differences across international standards, and across the national implementations of these standards. It may be better – and certainly more realistic – to create and build upon small successes, rather than try to introduce a single harmonized global system. That would overestimate the global capability to cooperate. Stress testing Supervisory authorities and central banks (and indeed financial institutions) already conduct regular stress and quinta tests on individual financial institutions and on parts of the financial sector. The new challenge is how to integrate climate-related risks into the stress testing process. Participants discussed various aspects of this issue. The first one related to the giorno problem – the lack of credible data on climate-related risks and on the potential impact of these risks on financial institutions and on the financial system. Second, giorno collection alone will not be sufficient. It is also necessary to process and analyze data within climate-related stresses and scenarios for insights into the impact of climate-related risks for financial institutions. Third, there is also a need for more forward-looking data. For example, parts of the insurance sector and its supervisors have good historic data on physical risks and their impact on insurance claims. There has also been some modelling of the impact of climate change on the magnitude of physical risks. However, Durante practice, the severity of physical risk events has been underestimated – the current situation differs from past experience. There has therefore been a greater emphasis on scenario analysis that does not just set out pathways for climate change, but also the possible physical risk that might arise from each pathway.
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Now you see, Ruth, banks have taken action in such a diverse array of categories, but also most of these changes benefit the average consumer as well, like more user friendly webpages. We can talk about a number of examples here, like the creation of audiobooks or emails or more user-friendly packaging or advertising, most of which were created for persons with disabilities, and so they end up benefit the wider customer cardine.
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