Entries for 2021

The IIF submitted a comment letter to the IFRS Foundation Exposure Draft on Proposed Targeted Amendments to the IFRS Foundation Constitution to Accommodate an International Sustainability Standards Board to Set IFRS Sustainability Standards.

This series highlights innovations by IIF’s member firms in promoting financial inclusion through digitalization. This edition focuses on Scotiabank’s innovative use of artificial intelligence / machine learning technologies in forecasting liquidity in short-term predictions, addressing their clients’ unique financial needs, providing proactive assistance, and establishing trust

Wells Fargo’s Agus Sudjianto discusses approaches for ‘Explainability’, one of the key focal areas of the US agencies’ recent Request for Information on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

The fourth session of the IIF’s DataTalk forum, our interactive discussion forum with knowledge partner the Oliver Wyman Forum, focused on the ethical use of data.

The IIF Sustainable Finance Working Group has submitted a response to the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), and its Secretariat, on its public consultation on Climate-related Metrics, Targets, and Transition Planning.

EY financial practice leaders Sonja Koerner, Chris Woolard, and Mark Watson spoke with Martin Boer of the Institute of International Finance to discuss the most interesting findings of the 11^th EY-IIF 2021 Report on Global Bank Risk Management Priorities.

The IIF has submitted comments in response to the FSB’s consultation on ‘Targets for Addressing the Four Challenges of Cross-Border Payments’. This consultation addresses the specific areas of cost, speed, access and transparency.

President Biden signed his new Executive Order on ‘Promoting Competition in the American Economy’ on July 9. A particularly wide-ranging and comprehensive Order, it includes 72 initiatives and recommendations for actions by 12 agencies, with key focus areas in technology and financial services, in addition to others in healthcare, agriculture, transport and more.