In particular, cyber threats pose a potentially
systemic risk to financial stability through the disruption or corruption of critical payment, clearing and settlement systems and related data.
China's stimulus, including interest rate and reserve - ratio cuts to shore up growth, threatens to delay the country's efforts to reduce its debt,
posing risks to the financial stability of the world's second - largest economy.
Last week, Fed Chair Janet Yellen said she didn't see more than a moderate level
of risk to financial stability from leverage or the ballooning volumes of debt.
Description: The April 2018 Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR) finds that short -
term risks to financial stability have increased somewhat since the previous GFSR.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that the global economy is recovering strongly for the first time in a decade, but the central bank needs to remain alert to any
emerging risks to financial stability.
Mark Carney, who heads the FSB, released a statement Sunday arguing that crypto assets do not pose a material
risk to financial stability at this time.
A member of the Swiss National Bank's governing body said Thursday that central bank digital currencies (CBDC), if created, would pose
risks to financial stability while offering few tangible benefits.
In a speech for the inaugural Scottish Economics Conference at Edinburgh University today, Mark Carney said that while cryptocurrencies did not pose
immediate risks to financial stability, they were «failing» to fulfill the role of money.
The limitations of macroprudential policies reflect the potential for risks to emerge outside sectors subject to regulation, the potential for supervision and regulation to miss emerging risks, the uncertain efficacy of new macroprudential tools such as a countercyclical capital buffer, and the potential for such policy steps to be delayed or to lack public support.14 Given such limitations, adjustments in monetary policy may, at times, be needed to
curb risks to financial stability.15
Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, framed the stakes recently, saying the prospect of British exit is «the biggest
domestic risk to financial stability because, in part, of the issues around uncertainty.»
Dairy products are New Zealand's largest commodity export and lower global prices are putting pressure on the nation's dairy farmers, weighing on the outlook for economic growth and putting dairy sector debt on the Reserve Bank's radar as a
growing risk to financial stability.
Carbon Tracker argues that the new Financial Policy Committee, set up to monitor risks and bubbles in the financial system, must urgently address the «carbon bubble» and ensure regulators require greater disclose on reserves and carbon emission in order to assess this
material risk to financial stability.
The minutes of the Fed's June meeting noted that «some participants suggested that increased risk tolerance among investors might be contributing to elevated asset prices more broadly; a few participants expressed concern that subdued market volatility, coupled with a low equity premium, could lead to a build - up
of risks to financial stability.»
Although this talk is about home mortgages, I want to emphasise that home mortgage markets with prudent lending standards do not generally
pose risks to financial stability.
Though the recent increase in uninsured mortgages seems in part a response to rising mortgage insurance premiums, it also likely increases
the risks to financial stability.
New Zealand's booming housing prices are now 45.4 % above the previous market peak of late 2007, and officials warn the rapid increases pose
a risk to financial stability.
It focuses on current market conditions, highlighting systemic issues that could pose
a risk to financial stability and sustained market access by emerging market borrowers.
In a letter to G20 finance leaders that was published on March 18, Carney, writing in the capacity of Financial Stability Board chair, said that cryptocurrencies currently pose
no risks to financial stability but that they might someday.
Another aspect to consider is that
risks to financial stability have two elements: the underlying vulnerability and the trigger that could cause a risk to materialize.
In the Global Financial Stability Report the IMF begins with the observation that «
Risks to financial stability have increased since the April 2012 GFSR, as confidence in the global financial system have become very fragile.»
The GFSR begins with the observation that «
Risks to financial stability have increased since the April 2012 GFSR, as confidence in the global financial system have become very fragile.»
In this context, we think the Fed will increasingly watch
the risks to financial stability.
As a result, we believe that
the risks to financial stability stemming from bitcoin are negligible — at least as of today.
Meanwhile, as financial vulnerabilities in the household sector continue to edge higher,
risks to financial stability are evolving as expected.
Meanwhile,
risks to financial stability are evolving as expected.
«As a result, we believe that
the risks to financial stability stemming from bitcoin are negligible - at least as of today.»
A bipartisan majority of senators has chosen to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression by handing big banks and their lobbyists a package of deregulatory gifts, increasing
the risks to financial stability and the likelihood of consumer abuse, including racial discrimination in mortgage lending.
To be sure, you have comported yourself as a consistent moderate, backing the consensus crafted by Janet Yellen that interest rates should be raised slowly so that labor markets can recover, that
risks to financial stability are muted, and that new regulations make the economy safer.
This is a good thing because needing to cut interest rates would have increased
the risks to financial stability.»