Lessons from the pandemic: Has the simpler post-2008 financial system held up? And where do we go from here? - speech by Christina Segal-Knowles

Given at the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum
Published on 29 January 2021

Christina Segal-Knowles reflects on the post-2008 financial crisis reforms to the derivatives market. She looks at how they held up during the market turbulence of spring 2020. 

Christina examines what the ‘dash-for-cash’ in the early days of the pandemic told us about financial system resilience. 

And she highlights the global work underway to sustain and strengthen the new, simpler framework for derivatives markets.

Lessons from the pandemic: Has the simpler post-2008 financial system held up? And where do we go from here?