248 Macroprudential policy
issued by large corporates in international nancial markets. In the event of a
default of a large corporate, nancial investors, notably asset management com-
panies but also insurance companies, would rapidly propagate the shock to the
whole international nancial system. Markets authorities generally have very
limited power to restrict securities and OTC issuances. The only exception is
the measure on concentration limits towards overleveraged large non- nancial
corporates introduced by the HCSF in December 2017 (8.3.1). Although the
measure was implemented by the banking supervision authority and only applies
to banks, hence excludes asset management companies, which are only indirectly
aected, such a measu ...