The Global Risks Alliance (GRA)
Topics at Financial Regulation Nexus: the pages in this section are listed below, each with its own scope and status.
The Financial Regulation Nexus topics are the ten subject dossiers of its field, among them prudential regulation, market conduct and consumer protection, and macroprudential policy. Each dossier sets out how the risk develops, what is measured and in which units, the public sources and their licences, the methods, who decides and the limits of the evidence.
GRA is a nonprofit business league for the financial services industry. It does not lend, underwrite, rate, invest, advise on or arrange transactions, and readiness work is not approval.
Topic pages in Financial Regulation Nexus share one structure: mechanisms, indicators, sources, methods, decisions and limits, written for prudential and conduct supervisors and regulatory policy and compliance staff.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Output floor | A Basel III limit that stops internal-model risk-weighted assets falling below a set share of the standardised approach. |
| Suitability rule | A requirement that a firm recommend only products that fit a customer's needs, circumstances and risk tolerance. |
| Countercyclical capital buffer | An extra capital requirement raised in credit booms and released in stress. |
| Same activity, same risk, same regulation | The principle that equivalent activities should face equivalent rules whoever carries them out. |
| Regulatory return | A standard report a firm submits to its supervisor on a set template and schedule. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
Banking and insurance prudential frameworks.
TopicDisclosure, fairness and protection.
TopicSystem-wide buffers and risk controls.
TopicAI, tokenization and digital services.
TopicRisk data, quality and reporting.
TopicInternational standards and cooperation.
TopicResolution and contingency policy.
TopicBusiness league safeguards and lawful coordination.
TopicConsumer protection, conduct and independent regulatory authority.
TopicPrudential source quality, disclosures and reporting standards.
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