IOSCO Launches First Securities Markets Risk Outlook

IOSCO published the Securities Markets Risk Outlook for 2013 and 2014, which highlights important trends, vulnerabilities and risks in securities markets that may be of concern from a systemic perspective.The information and data from the Outlook was compiled by the IOSCO Research Department and the Committee on Emerging Risks, and identifies four main risks related to:

• the low interest rate environment;
• collateral management;
• the derivatives markets; and
• a reversal of the capital flows of emerging markets.

See: IOSCO Securities Markets Risk Outlook 2013-14; IOSCO Press Release.