On May 23, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a press release announcing the launch of an evaluation of its too-big-to-fail reforms (TBTF) for systemically important banks (SIBs).

The evaluation (i) will focus on the effects of the FSB’s TBTF reforms for SIBs (including increased capital buffers, total loss-absorbing capacity, enhanced supervision and resolution regimes); and (ii) will analyze the impact of the reforms on global systemically important banks and domestic systemically important banks, and will cover all FSB jurisdictions.

The aims of the evaluation are to (i) assess whether the reforms for which implementation has been completed or is well underway are reducing the systemic and moral hazard risk associated with SIBs; and (ii) examine the broader effects of the reforms on the financial system.

The evaluation will be based on the FSB’s July 2017 framework for the post-implementation evaluation of the effects of the G20 financial regulatory reforms.