Financial stability
Financial stability concerns the resilience of the system as a whole: banks, insurers, funds and market infrastructure, and how shocks from outside finance (climate, cyber, pandemics) are amplified inside it.
- 01In briefThe short answer
- 02Three mandatesThe field, seen three ways
- 03The systemic questionAmplification channels
- 04FrameworksPrudential references
- 05CouplingsFrom GCRI science to stability analysis
- 06GroundingThe methods behind the field
- 07Key termsTerms used on this page
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The short answer.
Financial stability as a field covers the resilience of banks, insurers, markets and market infrastructure to shocks, and the channels through which stress spreads across the financial system. In the Nexus Consortium it is governed at GRF by Capital Nexus as well as understood financially at GRA by Banking Nexus and Capital Markets Nexus; this gateway links those platforms and the methods they share.
Financial centres and urban exposure in the Gulf of Mexico coast.
The cities where people, assets and financial activity concentrate, shown for the Gulf of Mexico coast as an example geography for this subject.
The field, seen three ways.
Science and evidence
No platform yet in this field.
Amplification channels.
Leverage, liquidity mismatch, interconnectedness and common exposures turn a loss into a crisis. Supervisors now run climate scenario analysis and operational resilience regimes alongside traditional stress tests. The science input that matters most is the physical-risk and cyber-scenario analysis feeding those exercises.
Prudential references.
| Framework or body | What it governs or supplies |
|---|---|
| Basel Committee standards | Bank capital, liquidity and climate-related principles |
| Financial Stability Board | System-wide monitoring and policy coordination |
| CPMI-IOSCO PFMI and DORA | Market infrastructure risk and digital operational resilience |
From GCRI science to stability analysis.
Cyber accumulation scenarios on Cyber and Digital Resilience, hazard analysis on Climate and Hazards. GRA's platforms listed below carry the sector analysis.
The methods behind the field.
- Financial economics and macro-finance
- Economics and development economics
- Policy, institutional and decision science
- Probability and statistics
- Network science and contagion
- Financial and risk engineering
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Payment and financial market technology
- Econometrics
- Distributed ledgers and digital assets
- Data engineering, interoperability and stewardship
- Game theory and mechanism design
- Complex systems and agent-based modelling
- Scenario design and stress testing
- Reliability and resilience engineering
- Cybersecurity and cryptography
- Quantum computing, sensing and communication
- Software and safety-critical systems engineering
- AI evaluation and assurance engineering
- Uncertainty quantification and model validation
- Digital identity and public digital systems
Terms used on this page.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Basel III | The Basel Committee's international framework of capital, leverage and liquidity standards for internationally active banks. |
| Prudential regulation | Rules that set the financial strength banks and insurers must hold so they can absorb losses and keep paying depositors and policyholders. |
| Systemic risk | The risk of disruption to financial services caused by impairment of all or parts of the financial system, with serious consequences for the real economy, as the IMF, FSB and BIS define it. |
| CET1 ratio | Common equity tier 1 capital as a share of risk-weighted assets, the core measure of a bank's loss-absorbing capital. |
Where this page's references lead.
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
Questions and answers.
Why does GCRI host field gateways?
Around GCRI.
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