IMF Speech on Global Financial Sector Reform
On 26 October 2012, the IMF published a speech given in Toronto by its Managing Director, Christine Lagarde, on global financial sector reform.
Ms Lagarde noted that progress had been made on implementing financial sector reform, specifically referring to Basel III and improved standards for the resolution of banks. In particular, she welcomed the EU’s moves to adopt a legal framework for a single supervisory mechanism by the end of 2012 as well as provisions regarding national resolution and deposit guarantee frameworks. However, she noted that a globally coordinated discussion and response was still required in a number of areas, including:
- current efforts to resolve the issue of “too important to fail” through structural reform as proposed by Volcker, Vickers and Liikanen; and
- international agreement on methodologies to assess compliance of recovery and resolution planning for large cross-border institutions.