On May 26, 2015, the US Financial Stability Oversight Council unanimously approved and published its 2015 annual report. The report discusses a variety of issues, including significant financial market and regulatory developments, potential emerging threats to the financial stability of the US, and recommendations on methods to mitigate such threats. The findings in the FSOC report emphasize, among other things, the need for the continuing enhancement of cyber security for all market participants, the ongoing investigation into whether existing rules and standards are sufficiently robust to mitigate the potential risk that central counterparties could transmit credit and liquidity problems among financial institutions and markets during periods of market stress, and the efforts made to reduce gaps that remain in the scope and quality of data sharing among regulators.
The 2015 FSOC annual report and press release are available at: http://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/fsoc/studies-reports/Documents/2015%20FSOC%20Annual%20Report.pdf; and http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl10055.aspx.
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