Key Topics

The IIF joins the public and private sector through the Sustainable Finance Working Group (SFWG) to identify and promote capital markets solutions that support the development and growth of green finance. SFWG includes representatives from major institutional investors, commercial banks, ratings agencies and other interested stakeholders, as well as public sector collaborators. Broad themes covered by SFWG include scaling the green finance market, collaboration with official sector initiatives and translating political momentum to tangible action that facilitates market development. 

Technology is driving rapid transformation across the financial services industry. The IIF is leading efforts to help the financial services industry and the public sector understand technology-driven trends reshaping the industry. Digital Finance Team works to explore the implications of distributed ledger technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning, increased automation, the rise of mobile, marketplace lending and other technologies for the industry and regulators. We are also helping lead the effort to support “regtech,” the use of new technologies to meet regulatory and compliance challenges more effectively and efficiently. Our technology events bring together senior public sector officials with industry leaders and leading technology and financial companies.

The IIF is the leading voice for the financial services industry on global regulatory and policy issues. The IIF engages continuously and constructively with global standard setters and other policymakers through formal submissions, staff papers and reports, as well as through regular dialogue, targeted events, industry surveys, and podcasts. We help shape the global policy and regulatory agenda by providing industry input and feedback on critical issues such as sustainable finance, international capital and liquidity standards for banks and insurers, resolution, non-bank financial intermediation, accounting standards, combatting financial crime, operational resilience, cyber security, crypto-assets.

The IIF promotes global efforts to enhance global debt architecture and closely monitors the rapidly evolving sectoral debt dynamics across mature and emerging markets, along with the implementation of the Principles for Stable Capital Flows and Fair Debt Restructuring – a set of guidelines formulated by a working group of representatives of emerging market borrowers and their official and private creditors.