GRA · Financial Regulation Nexus
Spatial financeWhere capital meets hazard, exposure and transition
STEM foundation of Financial Regulation Nexus
The science, technology, engineering and mathematics Financial Regulation Nexus rests on. Each method has a canonical page in the STEM Commons, hosted by the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), and a page here on how it is applied in this field.
Four pages under STEM foundation of Financial Regulation Nexus.
The methods behind the field.
- 01Financial economics and macro-financeCosts and benefits of capital requirements · Tracing leakage of macroprudential measuresSteward · Financial StabilityApplied here
- 02Policy, institutional and decision scienceRegulatory impact assessment · Comparing supervisory architecturesSteward · Policy NexusApplied here
- 03Data engineering, interoperability and stewardshipMapping templates to a common model · Entity resolution with identifiersSteward · Data and ComputeApplied here
- 04Game theory and mechanism designHome-host cooperation in resolution · Regulatory competition between jurisdictionsSteward · Policy NexusApplied here
The STEM methods Financial Regulation Nexus applies, and why.
- Bank capital requirementsRole in Financial Regulation NexusFinancial economics explains why regulation is needed and what it costs: how leverage, maturity transformation and interconnection create externalities that firms do not price, and how capital, liquidity and macroprudential rules change lending, pricing and risk-taking across the cycle.
- Regulatory impact assessmentRole in Financial Regulation NexusPolicy and institutional science studies how financial rules are made, implemented and evaluated, and how institutional design shapes supervisory behaviour.
- Machine-readable reportingRole in Financial Regulation NexusData engineering turns reporting templates, registers and disclosures into data that can be compared and trusted.
- Regulatory arbitrageRole in Financial Regulation NexusGame theory and mechanism design explain the strategic side of regulation: why firms arbitrage rules, why authorities may cooperate in calm and ring-fence in stress, why depositors run, and how rules, guarantees and procedures can be designed so that the intended behaviour is in each party's interest.
Each Financial Regulation Nexus method is described once in the STEM Commons at GCRI and applied here to the status, scope and effect of financial rules.
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- Basel Framework (consolidated standards)
- IAIS Insurance Core Principles and ComFrame, including the Insurance Capital Standard (adopted December 2024)
- IOSCO Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation
- FATF Recommendations, including revised Recommendation 16 on payment transparency (June 2025; implementation by end-2030)
Pages in STEM foundation of Financial Regulation Nexus.
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