ECB Papademos outlines key requirements for Systemic Risk Council

05 May 2009

Close co-operation and well-functioning information-sharing mechanisms between the new Council, national micro-prudential supervisors and the proposed European System of Financial Supervision will be indispensable, Papademos said.

Papademos outlined the key requirements to establish a Systemic Risk Council calling for a solid legal basis. Close co-operation and well-functioning information-sharing mechanisms between the new Council, national micro-prudential supervisors and the proposed European System of Financial Supervision will be indispensable, the Vice-President declared.

 

Also, adequate institutional mechanisms need to be in place to ensure that the risk warnings and the related recommendations issued by the Systemic Risk Council are translated into effective action.

 

The actions of policy makers and market participants should not only aim at overcoming the current difficulties, but should also consider the strategy and measures that will ensure sustained prosperity and that crises such as the current one will not occur again, ECB Vice-President Lucas Papademos said.

 

It is essential that the revealed weaknesses in the functioning of the financial system and the inadequacies of the regulatory and supervisory framework are effectively and promptly addressed, he said. In particular, there is a growing consensus among policy-makers about the need to strengthen and broaden the regulatory framework and to develop macro-prudential supervision globally and in the European Union.

 

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