In a report released March 28, 2016, the GAO concluded that fragmented and overlapping oversight has created inefficiency in the U.S. financial market regulatory structure. The GAO recommended that Congress should consider taking steps to reduce or better manage fragmentation and overlap, and also determine whether legislative changes are needed to align Financial Stability Oversight Council's (FSOC) authorities with its mission to respond to systemic risks.

On January 29, 2016, the Bank of England (B of E) issued a consultation paper laying out its proposed framework for the systemic risk buffer (SRB) to be applied to ring-fenced banks and large building societies holding more than £25 billion of retail and small and medium enterprise deposits. The proposals are intended to provide clarity to banks on how much capital they will be required to reserve in connection with the activities of their "ring-fenced" arms.

In a November 2, 2015 speech in Madrid,  Stefan Ingves, Chairman of the Basel Committee and Governor of Sveriges Riksbank,  announced that the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision will revisit internal risk modeling by banks. According to Mr. Ingves, "ample evidence has accumulated to suggest that the current role of internal models in the regulatory framework does not strike the right balance between simplicity, comparability and risk sensitivity."  While "the use of internally modelled approaches was a defining feature of Basel II," the Basel Committee expects to revisit this reliance on internal modeling and, perhaps, broadly eliminate it for some risk categories.