To that end, the Federal Reserve has been focusing on five key supervisory initiatives: (1) comprehensive reviews of firms' stress-testing practices; (2) a multilateral supervisory assessment of the leading global banks' current practices for managing their exposures to hedge funds; (3) a review of the risks associated with the rapid growth of "leveraged lending"; (4) a new assessment of practices to manage liquidity risk; and (5) continued efforts to reduce risks associated with weaknesses in the clearing and settlement of credit derivatives and other over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives.
[2] Strong female employment growth was largely in highly-skilled sectors, including nancial and business services, and was supported by a strong rise in female participation in the labour force. Our analysis shows that, as yet, pandemic-related changes to the way we work, so more remote and exible  arrangements for example, are not a dominant factor in explaining female participation growth.