Press releases 2024

• 43rd meeting of Austria’s Financial Market Stability Board – December 2, 2024

  The 43rd meeting of Austria’s Financial Market Stability Board (FMSB) took place on December 2, 2024. Systemic risks from debt-based financing of residential real estate were at the top of the agenda. Furthermore, the FMSB reaffirmed its recommendation for keeping the countercyclical capital buffer at 0% and adopted its work program for 2025.

• 42nd meeting of Austria’s Financial Market Stability Board – October 3, 2024

  The 42nd meeting of Austria’s Financial Market Stability Board took place on October 3, 2024. The main topics discussed were recommendations on: limiting systemic risks from commercial real estate financing, applying the systemic risk buffer and the other systemically important institutions buffer (O-SII buffer) and keeping the countercyclical capital buffer at 0%. The annual evaluation of systemic risks arising from leverage funding by alternative investment funds was also a topic on the agenda.

• 41st meeting of Austria’s Financial Market Stability Board – June 10, 2024

  The 41^st meeting of Austria’s Financial Market Stability Board took place on June 10, 2024. The main topics discussed were structural systemic risks as the basis for structural capital buffers, the countercyclical capital buffer and commercial real estate financing.

• 40th meeting of Austria’s Financial Market Stability Board – March 12, 2024

  In its 40^th meeting on March 12, 2024, the Financial Market Stability Board (FMSB) discussed the following topics, among others: commercial and residential real estate financing, the countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB), the 2023 annual report and the 2024 work program.