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March turmoil highlighted need to shore up money-market funds

Financial Stability Board issues report in financial market disruptions triggered by pandemic

Global policy-makers said market tumult triggered by the coronavirus pandemic in March exposed risks posed by non-bank financial firms and pledged to take steps to address them.

A long-awaited report released on 16 November by the Financial Stability Board, a global body that coordinates on financial regulation, highlighted money-market mutual funds that saw destabilising investor runs and that prompted the Federal Reserve to intervene. The FSB said it would work to develop specific policy improvements sometime next year.

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