Top 30 global financial risks

The Financial Stability Board created a list of 30 large global financial entities that represented to it the most systemically worrisome firms in the world. The chart above tracks a weighted average of the 5Y CDS (or credit risk) of these 30 names. The higher the index, the great the credit risk perceived among the world's most systemically worrisome financial entities. The greater that credit risk, the more concern there should be for another round of potential insolvencies or collapse of the financial industry.