Fernando Restoy

Chair, Financial Stability Institute

Fernando Restoy became Chair of the Financial Stability Institute on 1 January 2017.

He had been Deputy Governor of the Bank of Spain since 2012. Previously, he held other senior positions at the Bank of Spain, which he joined in 1991. From 1995 to 1997, he was Economic Advisor and Head of the Monetary Framework Section at the European Monetary Institute in Frankfurt.

Mr Restoy was Vice Chair of the Spanish Securities and Markets Commission (CNMV) from 2008 to 2012 and Vice Chair of the IOSCO Technical Committee (now Board). He was the Chairman of the Spanish Executive Resolution Authority (FROB) from 2012 to 2015 and was a Member of the Supervisory Board of the ECB's Single Supervisory Mechanism from 2014 to end 2016.

He holds an MSc in econometrics and mathematical economics from the London School of Economics and an MA and PhD in economics from Harvard.

Fields of interest

Financial markets
Financial institutions and macroprudential issues (including banking supervision)
Financial stability and macroprudential issues

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FSI Briefs No 1 15 Apr 2020

Reflections on regulatory responses to the Covid-19 pandemic

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Fernando Restoy

Chair, Financial Stability Institute

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All BIS publications (21)

Reflections on regulatory responses to the Covid-19 pandemic

Convergence in the prudential regulation of banks - what is missing?

Prudential policy considerations under expected loss provisioning: lessons from Asia

All external publications (11)

The role of the banking union in the current geopolitical context

Resolution funding: finding the balance

MREL for mid sized banks

Recent bank failures, deposit stability and the role of supervision

Central banks and supervisory architecture in Europe: lessons from crises in the 21st century

DeFi: some points for regulatory reflection

The need for more entity-based regulation for big techs

Fintech regulation: how to achieve a level playing field

Regulatory convergence and market confidence

All speeches (53)

Overseeing banks' governance: can we do it better?

Towards a more efficient EU prudential framework: the role of supervision

Liquidity requirements and liquidity facilities

Can MREL be lower?

Financial regulation and growth: what should be the European policy priorities?

Banks' liquidity risk: what policy could do

Post-turmoil bank failure management: the European challenges

Post-turmoil bank failure management: some reflections

Current challenges for the banking industry: the role of public policy

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FSI special session at BIS AGM

Workshop on Fostering Financial Inclusion Through Open Finance

FSI special session at BIS AGM

FSI regulatory session at BIS AGM

Keynote speech: Current regulatory and supervisory challenges from technological innovation, climate change and other sources of uncertainty

Session 6: Evolving regulatory and supervisory architecture to oversee big techs

FSI special session on regulatory convergence: what are the missing pieces?

FSI special session on key financial regulatory developments

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