Financial Stability Newsroom
MAY 10, 2022
The European Central Bank (ECB) has published the Financial Stability Review, May 2022.
Overview: Financial market and macroeconomic conditions in the EU have deteriorated and/or show signs of further deterioration:
Energy and commodity price shock increase risks to economic growth, inflatio ...
APRIL 25, 2022
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published the World Economic Outlook April 2022 showing the latest world economic projections for a broad range of macroeconomic indicators.
Key outcomes:
Global growth is projected to contract from an estimated 6.1% in 2021 to 3.6% in 2022 an ...
MARCH 15, 2022
The Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) discusses in this report (March 2022) on the role that central banks and supervisors need to play with regard to the financial and economic risks stemming from biodiversity loss, setting out the links between biodiversity loss and the macroeconomi ...
MARCH 05, 2022
On 31 March 2022, the ESRB published the concept note titled Review of the EU Macroprudential Framework for the Banking Sector. This concept note discusses the main challenges to be addressed and setting out what in the ESRB’s view needs to be done to ensure that the macroprudential rules for ba ...
JANUARY 17, 2022
The MFSA, together with the Central Bank of Malta have re-confirmed Bank of Valletta p.l.c., HSBC Bank Malta p.l.c., MDB Group Limited, and APS Bank p.l.c. as Other Systemically Important Institutions (O-SIIs) and communicated the corresponding capital buffer rate each must meet.
Credit Insti ...
DECEMBER 10, 2021
The main purpose of this report is to provide an update, at a micro level, of the liquidity stress testing of investment funds carried out for the first time by the Authority in 2020. While most of the methodology remains unchanged, some modifications are applied to overcome certain shortcomings tha ...
DECEMBER 06, 2021
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has published its BIS Quarterly Review December 2021, which includes the paper ‘Non-bank financial sector: systemic regulation needed’.
This edition includes also other reports and special features, from which of special relevance for systemic risk ...
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
This study aims to contribute to the growing strand of literature on climate transition risk by estimating the short-term implications of a carbon taxation on the investment portfolios of the Maltese financial system. Adopting a static balance sheet assumption, this research study quantifies the fin ...
OCTOBER 29, 2021
The Domestic Insurance Stress Test represents the first step by the MFSA’s Financial Stability function to assess the domestic insurance sector resilience to an adverse scenario, triggered by an interest rate shock. Insurance undertakings’ vulnerabilities are assessed from a macro-prudential per ...
OCTOBER 06, 2021
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published the Global Financial Stability Report (October 2021).
This report indicates that global financial stability risks have been contained so far, reflecting ongoing policy support and a rebound in the global economy earlier this year. A very brief s ...