FSOC Advances Designation Framework, Ready to Deploy
The FSOC today voted unanimously to finalize the Council’s analytic framework for financial stability risk identification (see FSM Report SYSTEMIC95) and guidance on nonbank financial company systemic designations (see FSM Report SIFI35). FedFin will soon provide clients with in-depth reports on each item. In addition to minor clarifications to the analytic framework, the Council importantly decided not to add cost-benefit analysis. Further, the final nonbank designation guidance is unchanged from the proposal, meaning that designation standards will not require a determination of imminent threat to financial stability.