News in Systemic Risk: Monday, October 4, 2021 (10 a.m. ET) October 4, 2021 Crypto Boom Poses New Challenges to Financial Stability (Dimitris Drakopoulos, Fabio Natalucci, Evan Papageorgiou; International Monetary Fund) Lessons from an unusual crisis (Isabel Schnabel; European Central Bank) From SMP to PEPP: A further look at the risk endogeneity of the Central Bank (Marco Fruzzetti, Giulio Gariano, Gerardo Palazzo, Antonio Scalia; Banca D'Italia) Banks' risk-taking within a banking union (Matteo Farnè, Angelos Vouldis; European Central Bank) Fed Prepares to Launch Review of Possible Central Bank Digital Currency (Andrew Ackerman; Wall Street Journal) Related Stories Going Beyond Buzzwords at the Yale Blockchain Conference Students Get an Early Start Serving as Nonprofit Board Members Prof. William Goetzmann Receives Inaugural Seiler Behavioral Research Commendation