Lesson 3 of 5
The Financial Stability Board: coordination, resolution and peer reviews
The Financial Stability Board does not write most standards itself. It coordinates the bodies that do, reports to the G20, and owns the international standard for dealing with a failing financial institution. This lesson explains where it came from and how it is run, what an effective resolution regime contains, how the largest banks are identified and made to hold loss-absorbing capacity, with a worked example, how peer reviews work, and why its monitoring of non-bank finance matters to lenders.
Published 17 October 2026 · Listen to this lesson
In this lesson
- From a forum to a board
- What it does and how it is run
- Resolution: letting a firm fail without the taxpayer
- The largest banks, with a worked example
- Peer reviews: members checking members
- Beyond banks: why non-bank lenders should watch it