News in Systemic Risk: Friday, February 16, 2018 (10 a.m. ET)

Are credit rating agencies discredited? Measuring market price effects from agency sovereign debt announcements (Mahir Binici, Michael M Hutchison, Evan Weicheng Miao; BIS)

Cross-border retail payments (Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures; BIS)

The negative interest rate policy and the yield curve (Dora Xia, Jing Cynthia Wu; BIS)

EU ministers to discuss risk reduction at EU banks on Monday (Reuters)

UK aims to keep financial rules close to EU after Brexit (FT)

U.S. financial regulatory panel to review Prudential risk designation (Reuters)

Haruhiko Kuroda set for BoJ second term after Abe nomination (FT)

Swedish cbank sees modest impact on bank capital from IFRS 9 – commentary (Reuters)

Central Bankers Can't Really Afford Another Setback, Norway Says (Bloomberg)

Switzerland sets out guidelines to support initial coin offerings (FT)

Bullish Mood Returns as Investors Shrug Off Big Price Swings (WSJ)