On November 18, 2015, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published its final Standards and Processes for Global Securities Financing Data Collection and Aggregation. The final standards are based on the FSB’s previous November 2014 consultation paper and define the data elements for securities lending, repo, and margin lending that national and regional authorities will be asked to report in aggregate to the FSB.

On August 29, 2013, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) issued its finalized policy framework for its securities lending and repo workstream. As part of a larger examination of shadow banking, the FSB focused on five specific areas in which policies are needed to mitigate the potential systemic risks associated with shadow banking, with one of these five areas being securities lending and repo. Following up on their November 2012 consultation paper, the FSB has issued its final Policy Framework for Addressing Shadow Banking Risks in Securities Lending and Repos. This document sets out recommendations for addressing financial stability risks in this area, including enhanced transparency, regulation of securities financing, and improvements to market structure. It also includes consultative proposals on minimum standards for methodologies to calculate haircuts on noncentrally cleared securities financing transactions and a framework of numerical haircut floors.