We anticipate greater use of “Big Data” in our supervisory assessments and in providing warning signs of crises or market concerns. But the day of full “robo-supervision” may still be some way off! Macro-prudential policy Macro-prudential is a relatively new policy area that we have so far implemented through LVR speed limits, applied in 2013, and modified in 2015 and in October last year.
The Commission’s proposal on banking structures drifted into a peculiar situation in the European Parliament when the rapporteur responsible for the proposal lost the vote in the committee. The fate of the proposal remains open. A lot has been happening in the markets themselves. Many so-called universal banks have substantially limited their proprietary trading because it has caused significant losses for them.