Financial Sector Surveillance (FSS)
Invitation
Session No.: CT 19.07
Location: Dalian, China
Date: June 17-28, 2019 (2 weeks)
Primary Language: English
Target Audience
Qualifications
Course Description
This course, presented by the IMF Institute for Capacity Development, introduces participants to key concepts and tools used in the identification and assessment of financial sector vulnerabilities and sources of strength. The course materials provide a basic toolkit to assess financial sector risks and to measure them against existing capital and liquidity buffers in the financial system. The discussions focus on the early identification of unwarranted macro-financial imbalances and the analysis of the transmission of financial distress across institutions, markets, and economic sectors, with the objective of reducing the likelihood and the severity of financial crises. A combination of lectures and hands-on workshops allows participants to apply essential risk assessment techniques.
Course Objectives
- Measure the main risks facing banks (e.g., credit, market, funding) and use bank balance sheet indicators of financial soundness (e.g., asset quality, liquidity and capital buffers), such as IMF Financial Soundness Indicators, in assessing banking system risks.
- Design and perform basic stress tests of solvency and liquidity and interpret the results.
- Recognize the importance of nonbank financial intermediaries and their links to banks.
- Assess macrofinancial linkages (e.g., the impact of business cycles on bank soundness), including the links between the financial sector, the government, and the real economy.
- Track the buildup of systemic risk and vulnerabilities associated with credit, real estate prices, leverage, balance sheet mismatches, and interconnectedness.
- Assess how shocks can amplify throughout the financial system, e.g., through adverse liquidity spirals a new approach to financial regulation since the global financial crisis.
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