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20 June 2017

FSB releases consultation on the use of compensation tools to address misconduct


The proposed guidance has been developed in collaboration with the standard-setting bodies and it supplements the Principles and Standards that note that compensation should be adjusted for all types of risk.

Recent events related to misconduct have focused the attention of many supervisors and financial institutions more intensively on the need to develop robust frameworks for identifying, preventing and remedying misconduct. Compensation and related performance management mechanisms help signal the importance that financial institutions place on prudent management of risk and acceptable standards of behaviour, including compliance with related laws, regulations and supervisory expectations. Compensation tools, along with other measures, can play an important role in addressing misconduct risk by providing both ex ante incentives for good conduct and ex post adjustment mechanisms that ensure appropriate accountability. To ensure such accountability, firms should have tools available to consider using when misconduct occurs. Therefore in 2016, the FSB agreed to develop guidance on better practice regarding the application of the Principles & Standards to misconduct risk.

The guidance, like the Principles and Standards, will apply to financial institutions that competent authorities consider significant for the purpose of the Principles and Standards. The guidance does not establish additional principles or standards beyond those already set out in the Principles and Standards and it has been developed in the form of recommendations on better practices. It highlights eight considerations that are relevant for firms and supervisors in terms of governance of compensation and misconduct risk, effective alignment of compensation and misconduct risk and supervision of compensation and misconduct risk.

The FSB welcomes comments and responses to the consultation by 30 August 2017.

Full consultation



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