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Communication
Macroprudential supervision is preventative in nature. Its impact is largely based on the expectations and behaviour of many financial market players. Consequently, the Financial Stability Committee communicates regularly and transparently in order to provide effective macroprudential supervision.
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Financial Stability Board
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) was established to promote financial stability at the international level. As an international forum for national supervisory authorities, the FSB serves as a coordination and exchange platform and develops regulatory and supervisory recommendations for action.
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International bodies
In addition to the Financial Stability Committee at the national level, there are two central international bodies that monitor financial stability from different perspectives.
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Strategy and rules of procedure
The strategy sets out how the Financial Stability Committee defines its goal of financial stability, how it intends to achieve it and what options it has for taking action. It also sets out the standards and guidelines according to which the Financial Stability Committee fulfils the responsibilities assigned to it by law.
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Monitoring
The Financial Stability Committee discusses and assesses threats to financial stability in Germany based on analyses performed by the Bundesbank. In addition, its work is based to a large extent on findings of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) taken from its supervisory activities in the banking, insurance and securities sectors.
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Dr Benjamin Weigert
Dr Benjamin Weigert has been Director General for Financial Stability at the Deutsche Bundesbank, and a member of the Financial Stability Committee, since August 2016. He has also worked at Deloitte & Touche and served as Secretary General of the German Council of Economic Experts. He graduated from the Technical University of Dresden in 2002 with a degree in Economics and received his Ph.D. …
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Prof. Dr Claudia Buch
Dr Claudia Buch has been Vice-President of the Deutsche Bundesbank since 2014. Her remit there covers financial stability, statistics and internal audit. She also serves as the Bundesbank’s deputy at G20 and G7 meetings. Her previous positions include serving as President of the Halle Institute for Economic Research, Professor of Economics at the University of Tübingen, member of the German …
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Dr Frank Grund
Dr Frank Grund has been Chief Executive Director of Insurance and Pension Funds Supervision at the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) since 2015. Before moving to BaFin, his previous positions included serving as member of the Gerling Group’s managing board, CEO and general representative of Basler Insurance (Germany) and Supervisory Board Member of IDEAL Insurance Group.
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Jakob von Weizsäcker
Jakob von Weizsäcker was appointed Director-General for economic and fiscal policy strategy and international issues at the Federal Ministry of Finance in 2019. From 2014 to 2019, he served a Member of the European Parliament where he was as a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Delegation for relations with India. Previously, he worked at the Ministry for Economy in …