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This spreadsheet provides information on the policy measures taken by Member States, EU institutions and national authorities in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. It is updated by the ESRB on a regular basis. This information is collated in cooperation with the European Central Ban ...

Based on the 2020 O-SII (Other Systemically Important Institution) identification exercise, the same four credit institutions identified as O-SIIs during last year’s iteration have been re-confirmed as O-SIIs. The Statement of Decision lists these Credit Institutions together with their current ap ...

The Global Monitoring Report on Non-Bank Financial Intermediation 2020 presents the results of its annual FSB monitoring exercise to assess global trends and risks in non-bank financial intermediation (NBFI), covering 29 jurisdictions that account for 80% of global GDP. The annual monitoring exercis ...

This report is a first attempt by the Financial Stability function within the MFSA to develop a liquidity stress testing framework, both at micro and macro levels, for a sample of 64 Maltese retail investment funds. ...

Interconnectedness between financial institutions is a source of systemic risk. Transmission channels make institutions interconnected and susceptible to the same shocks. This paper focuses on the first channel of systemic risk, i.e. contagion arising from direct exposures to the failing institut ...