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Banking | December 2025
Bank supervision emerged not from deliberate design but incremental adaptation
FABIO NATALUCCI
Financial markets | Podcast
Most economies have shown resilience through the steepest series of rate hikes in decades. But inflation remains stubbornly high in some countries, which is proving a challenge for global monetary policy going forward.
Financial stability never comes easy, but the past few months have been especially challenging with persistently high inflation and two bank failures in the United States that exposed vulnerabilities lurking beneath the surface.
Inflation | Podcast
Rising risks to the inflation outlook and rapidly changing views about the likely pace of monetary policy tightening have been dominant themes affecting financial stability.
Fintech | Podcast
The growing correlation between crypto and equity markets and what that means for financial stability.
While financial stability risks have risen on several fronts since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the latest Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR) says no global systemic event affecting financial institutions or markets has materialized so far.
The latest Global Financial Stability Report takes a close look at how recent supply chain disruptions, wage pressures and inflation might compromise the stability of the global financial system.
While emerging markets suffered huge portfolio outflows at the beginning of the pandemic, the latest Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR) shows capital flows have returned and the outlook continues to improve, partly because of low interest rates in countries such as the United States.
Many things can happen within the global financial system to disrupt financial stability, and the pandemic is testing most of them.
Financial markets | December 2020
Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles
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