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FSB Cites Growing FinTech/BigTech Concerns, Policy Solutions Await
The FSB today published its latest assessment of fintech, now adding bigtech to the picture and elaborating on the array of policy concerns it and BIS have previously sketched out. We will shortly provide clients with an in-depth analysis of a report which concludes that the pandemic has significantly accelerated digital transformation. This improves financial inclusion, but raises growing risk of structural change by way of dominant players outside the regulatory perimeter.
SEC Sets Out Sweeping U.S. Climate-Risk Disclosure Construct
On unsurprising party lines (3-1), the SEC today released proposed climate-risk disclosures for public registrants. Although Congressional Democrats pressed for express materiality standards, the proposal relies on current interpretations of what must be disclosed. Although Congressional Republicans derided the proposal as far outside the Commission’s mandate, it would require not only Scope 1 and 2 disclosures, but also an initial construct designed to lead gradually, but indisputably, to Scope 3 disclosures from larger companies.