Germany: Financial Sector Assessment Program-Stress Testing the Banking and Insurance Sectors-Technical Notes

June 29, 2016

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Germany: Financial Sector Assessment Program-Stress Testing the Banking and Insurance Sectors-Technical Notes, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2016) accessed September 18, 2024

Summary

This paper assesses Germany’s financial system and, in particular, its potential for spillover risk. The analysis comprises structural and financial statement analyses, detailed stress tests for banks and insurance companies, and spillover risk analysis. Solvency and liquidity stress tests cover all 1,776 banks operating in Germany, and insurance-sector analysis covers 93 percent of the life insurance sector in terms of the assets. Germany is highly interconnected through trade and financial channels. The total consolidated claims of German banks on foreign banks, nonbank private sector, and public sector stood at about $1.7 trillion in the second quarter of 2015, with the majority of cross-border exposures vis-à-vis France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Financial institutions, Financial sector policy and analysis, Insurance, Insurance companies, Solvency, Stress testing

Keywords: Asset quality, Banking sector, Commercial banks, Coverage ratio, CR, Fixed income, Global, Hurdle rate, Insurance, Insurance companies, ISCR, Mortgage bank, Solvency, Stress testing, Valuation loss

Publication Details

Pages:

64
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2016/191
Stock No:

1DEUEA2016003
ISBN:

9781475564549
ISSN:

1934-7685

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