December 10, 2014
An assessment of potential risks to the stability of Canada's financial system.
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December 10, 2014
The Reports section of the Financial System Review examines selected issues of relevance to the Canadian and global financial systems. The December 2014 issue features two reports on important developments in the financial system: rapid growth and innovation in the market for exchange-traded funds, and the increasing significance of cyber attacks to the operational resilience of financial institutions and financial market infrastructures.
Financial System Review - December 2014
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Financial Stability Report
June 12, 2014
Stress Testing the Canadian Banking System: A System-Wide Approach
Stress testing is an important tool used by financial authorities and entities around the world to evaluate potential risks to the financial system. Kartik Anand, Guillaume Bédard-Pagé and Virginie Traclet discuss different stress-testing approaches, with emphasis on the innovative and analytically rigorous model developed by the Bank of Canada: the MacroFinancial Risk Assessment Framework (MFRAF). They also present the stress-test results obtained in the context of the 2013 Canada Financial Sector Assessment Program led by the International Monetary Fund, including the important contributions made by the use of MFRAF in the exercise.
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Financial System Review articles
Topic(s):
Financial institutions,
Financial stability
JEL Code(s):
C,
C6,
C63,
G,
G0,
G01,
G2,
G21
June 12, 2014
Reforming Financial Benchmarks: An International Perspective
Thomas Thorn and Harri Vikstedt examine the efforts being taken internationally and in Canada to enhance the governance and integrity of financial benchmarks. The report provides an overview of how interbank interest rate benchmarks are set and describes the weaknesses in the process that were exposed by the financial crisis. It also explains recent policy developments designed to make global and Canadian interbank benchmarks more robust.
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Financial System Review articles
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
Financial system regulation and policies,
Recent economic and financial developments
JEL Code(s):
G,
G1,
G11
June 12, 2014
Making Banks Safer: Implementing Basel III
Éric Chouinard and Graydon Paulin review the progress to date in implementing Basel III, the new framework of global regulatory standards for the banking sector developed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. The report highlights the expected net benefits of implementing Basel III, as well as the challenges in ensuring international consistency in measuring the risk-weighted capital of banks. It includes a discussion on how implementing Basel III has affected the banking system in Canada and other important jurisdictions, and demonstrates the need for ongoing assessment of the effects on the financial system and the macroeconomy.
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Financial System Review articles
Topic(s):
Financial institutions,
Financial system regulation and policies
JEL Code(s):
G,
G2,
G28