framework to ensure its coherence and maximize its effectiveness without further significantly
increasing overall capital requirements across the banking sector. We continue to closely monitor,
and if necessary, address emerging risks and vulnerabilities in the financial system, including those
associated with shadow banking, asset management and other market-based finance activities. We
welcome the work of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) in cooperation with other standard setting
bodies (SSBs) to assess holistically the extent, drivers and possible persistence of shifts in market
liquidity across jurisdictions and asset classes and consider policy measures if necessary.
We will also continue to enhance the monitoring of implementation and effects of reforms to ensure
their consistency with our overall objectives, including by addressing any material unintended
consequences. In this regard, we welcome the work by the FSB and SSBs to enhance the analysis
of the effects of G20 financial regulatory reforms, including the combined effects and interaction
across sectors of related reforms, and look forward to the FSB’s second annual report to the G20 on
implementation and effects of regulatory reforms. We intend to reap the economic benefits of
technologically enabled financial innovations while managing their potential impacts on financial
stability and market integrity. We welcome the work of the G7 Cyber Experts Group in the financial
area to foster cyber security and enhance cooperation among G7 countries in this area. We also
welcome and support the effective implementation of the G20/OECD Principles of Corporate
Governance. In particular, we look forward to the development of the assessment methodology of
the Principles.
Tax and Transparency
Steady, consistent and concerted implementation of the G20/OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting
(BEPS) package is critical to restore public trust in tax systems and to achieve a global level playing
field for all engaged in economic activities. We remain committed to lead the process by example. To
ensure widespread implementation of the BEPS package, we encourage all relevant and interested
countries and jurisdictions to commit to implement the BEPS package and join the new inclusive
framework, noting that the first meeting will be held in Kyoto in June.
To restore public trust in tax systems by enhancing transparency of tax information, we reaffirm
G20’s call on all relevant countries including all financial centers and jurisdictions to implement the
standard on automatic exchange of information by committed deadline and to sign the Multilateral
Convention, as well as the request to the OECD to establish the “objective criteria to identify
non-cooperative jurisdictions with respect to tax transparency.” These actions, together with possible
defensive measures to be considered against non-cooperative jurisdictions, will help ensure that all
relevant countries and financial centers are committed to implementing the agreed standard of tax
transparency.
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