The events of the last few years, particularly those in the global financial crisis that began in 2007, indicate that mortgage insurance (MI) is subject to significant stress in the worst tail events. This report examines the interaction of mortgage insurers with mortgage originators and...

The matrix below describes the CPSS-IOSCO quantitative disclosure standards for CCPs. Together with the CPSS-IOSCO Disclosure Framework, these constitute the disclosures expected of a CCP under Principle 23, Key Consideration 5, of the CPSS-IOSCO Principles for financial market infrastructures...

The Research Task Force Transmission Channel (RTF-TC) project was conceived before the onset of the recent global financial crisis. From the beginning, RTF-TC was intended to be a long-term project that would involve many RTF member institutions. The primary goal was to generate new research on...

The Basel Committee's Research Task Force Transmission Channel project aimed at generating new research on various aspects of the credit channel linkages in the monetary transmission mechanism. Under the credit channel view, financial intermediaries play a critical role in the allocation of...

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, in cooperation with the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), is seeking views on potential changes to the capital treatment of banks' exposure to central counterparties...