Hello, I’m Rebecca and I’m currently on secondment at the FSB Secretariat from the Bank of England, where I was a manager on the Sterling Operations Desk.
In that role I was responsible for designing, implementing, and executing monetary policy and liquidity insurance operations. I really enjoy being able to take what I had learnt there and applying it in a global context, for example in one of my first projects at the FSB, Enhancing the Functioning and Resilience of Commercial Paper and Negotiable Certificates of Deposit Markets. The work benefitted from great input from a range of stakeholders, including FSB Members around the world and private sector experts, who helped us to get into the detail of market functioning issues.
Currently, I spend most of my time leading the FSB’s annual global monitoring of Non-bank Financial Intermediation (NBFI). This was a new area for me, but I’ve learnt so much from working with experts on NBFI. Our flagship Global Monitoring Report and the unique underlying datasets cover 29 jurisdictions. Alongside my data scientist colleagues, we’re currently enhancing the way we present the data and analysis, as well as modernising the analytical framework we use to analyse the NBFI sector and its vulnerabilities. More to come towards the end of this year!
Beyond NBFI analysis, I lead Secretariat support for the FSB Regional Consultative Group for Europe, and I’m applying my operational background to our analytical work on operational resilience.
Working at the FSB Secretariat has provided a different context to that of the Bank of England, but it gives me the same ultimate motivation: I believe in the ethos of the institutions. On a day-to-day basis, I see the same commitment to excellence from colleagues. I will look back on this experience with gratitude.
