## Preface

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### Purpose and scope
- The Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR) assesses key risks facing the global financial system.
- In normal times, the report seeks to play a role in preventing crises by highlighting policies that may mitigate systemic risks, thereby contributing to global financial stability and the sustained economic growth of the IMF’s member countries.

### Coordination and direction
- The analysis in this report has been coordinated by the Monetary and Capital Markets (MCM) Department under the general direction of Tobias Adrian, Director.
- The project has been directed by Fabio Natalucci and Dong He, both Deputy Directors, as well as by Claudio Raddatz and Anna Ilyina, both Division Chiefs.
- It has benefited from comments and suggestions from the senior staff in the MCM Department.

### Individual contributors
- Individual contributors to the report are Sergei Antoshin, Prasad Ananthakrishnan, Adolfo Barajas, Peter Breuer, Jeroen Brinkhoff, John Caparusso, Sally Chen, Yingyuan Chen, Fabio Cortes, Marc Dobler, J. Benson Durham, Dimitris Drakopoulos, Martin Edmonds, Alan Xiaochen Feng, Rohit Goel, Evrim Bese Goksu, Pierpaolo Grippa, Dirk Jan Grolleman, Tryggvi Gudmundsson, Sanjay Hazarika, Frank Hespeler, Henry Hoyle, Mohamed Jaber, David Jones, Will Kerry, Piyusha Khot, Robin Koepke, Yumi Kuramochi, Yang Li, Alejandro Lopez Mejia, Sheheryar Malik, Rebecca McCaughrin, Aditya Narain, Huyen Ngoc Phuong Nguyen, Thomas Piontek, Mustafa Saiyid, Luca Sanfilippo, Jochen Schmittmann, Katharine Seal, Juan Solé, Ilan Solot, Richard Stobo, Florina Tanase, Nour Tawk, Nico Valckx, Constant Verkoren, James P. Walsh, Froukelien Wendt, Jeffrey Williams, Peter Windsor, Juno Xinze Yao, and Akihiko Yokoyama.
- Magally Bernal, Claudia Cohen, Breanne Rajkumar, and Han Zaw were responsible for word processing.

### Editorial and production
- Gemma Diaz from the Communications Department led the editorial team and managed the report’s production with support from Linda Kean and editorial assistance from Sherrie Brown, Lucy Scott Morales, Nancy Morrison, Katy Whipple, AGS, and Vector Talent Resources.

### Consultations and inputs
- This issue of the GFSR draws in part on a series of discussions with banks, securities firms, asset management companies, hedge funds, standards setters, financial consultants, pension funds, central banks, national treasuries, and academic researchers.

### Information cutoff and attribution
- This GFSR reflects information available as of September 14, 2018.
- The report benefited from comments and suggestions from staff in other IMF departments, as well as from Executive Directors following their discussion of the GFSR on September 20, 2018.
- However, the analysis and policy considerations are those of the IMF staff and should not be attributed to Executive Directors or their national authorities.

*International Monetary Fund | October 2018*

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