L ast week, the Financial Stability Board identified nine international insurance companies as GSifis. For those uninitiated in the acronyms beloved of the regulatory community, a GSifi is a global systemically important financial institution. Finding GSifis in the insurance sector is a solution in search of a problem. Having invented the concept of GSifi to describe too-big-to-fail banks, the world’s financial regulators are on the hunt for other businesses which can be treated in a similar way.
最近，金融穩(wěn)定委員會(huì)(Financial Stability Board)將9家跨國(guó)保險(xiǎn)公司確定為GSifi。如果你對(duì)這個(gè)監(jiān)管界鐘愛的首字母縮略詞不太懂，那么請(qǐng)記住GSifi指的是全球系統(tǒng)重要性金融機(jī)構(gòu)。在保險(xiǎn)行業(yè)尋覓GSifi純屬?zèng)]事找事。在發(fā)明GSifi的概念來描述“大而不倒”的銀行后，全球金融監(jiān)管機(jī)構(gòu)正在尋找哪些其他企業(yè)可以進(jìn)入GSifi行列。