FSB consults on eight principles for modernising regulatory and supervisory frameworks
· 14 Oct 2026
· 2:05
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Tobias ReinhardtEight principles, published by the F-S-B today, Wednesday the fourteenth of October. Addressed to financial authorities, not to firms. Responses due the eighth of January twenty twenty-seven. Operationally, nothing changes tomorrow.
Haruki SatoNothing tomorrow, but read the fourth understanding — implementation defers to each jurisdiction's own legal framework.
Tobias ReinhardtWhich means the eight principles aren't the story. The national implementation is.
Haruki SatoAnd the assumption doing the heavy lifting is that you fix inefficiency without touching resilience.
Tobias ReinhardtThe document says exactly that, repeatedly.
Haruki SatoToo repeatedly. It even asks how to communicate modernisation to avoid misperceptions that it compromises resilience.
Tobias ReinhardtYou think that's an admission?
Haruki SatoA standard-setter doesn't pre-empt an accusation nobody is making. And the request came from the U S G20 Presidency.
Tobias ReinhardtFair. But I'd watch three headings — proportionality cliff effects, materiality-based risk prioritisation, and disclosing the assumptions behind impact analysis.
Haruki SatoThat's where resilience gets recalibrated quietly. In a stressed market the materiality threshold you set in calm times is the one that fails.
Tobias ReinhardtSo the January deadline isn't the deadline that matters.
Haruki SatoWhat one supervisor files under inefficiency, another files under the buffer that saved it.
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