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Climate Change May Trigger Next Financial Crisis, Fisher Says

  • Sterling’s drop shows possibility of fast asset repricing
  • Businesses should expect more regulation due to climate change

Climate change could spark the world’s next financial crisis, according to Paul Fisher, who retired this year as deputy head of the Bank of England body which supervises the country’s banks.

“It is potentially a systemic risk,” Fisher said Monday in an interview in Sydney. A sudden repricing of assets as a result of climate change “could be the trigger for the next financial crisis,” he added.