Details of which banks are classed as "global systemically important financial institutions" will be released later this year.
As of November 2011, a standard definition of systemically important financial institution had not been decided.
We are prepared to identify systemically important non-bank financial entities.
Credit rating agency says it expects government will have to continue to support 'systemically important financial institutions'
As it turned out, these losses were concentrated in a set of systemically important financial institutions.
It will also take responsibility for the graceful resolution of systemically important financial firms, even if they have no direct links to consumers.
Standard Chartered has not been named as systemically important.
Systemically important financial institutions are likely to receive government bailouts in the event of failure.
Moody's believes that the government is likely to continue to provide some level of support to systemically important financial institutions.
A significant number of them are also systemically important groups.