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,金融穩定委員會(Financial Stability Board)將9家跨國保險公司確定爲GSifi。如果你對這個監管界鍾愛的首字母縮略詞不太懂,那麼請記住GSifi指的是全球系統重要性金融機構。在保險行業尋覓GSifi純屬沒事找事。在發明GSifi的概念來描述「大而不倒」的銀行後,全球金融監管機構正在尋找哪些其他企業可以進入GSifi行列。