IMF Staff Country Reports

Tunisia: Banking System Issues and Statistical Appendix

January 7, 1999

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International Monetary Fund. "Tunisia: Banking System Issues and Statistical Appendix", IMF Staff Country Reports 1999, 129 (1998), accessed 12/16/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451837759.002

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Summary

This Banking System Issues paper and Statistical Appendix analyzes the banking system of Tunisia. The paper highlights that notwithstanding the gradual developments of other financial institutions such as the stock market, mutual funds, and leasing companies, the intermediation of savings and the financing of economic activity in Tunisia remains dominated by the banking system. The paper also highlights that the authorities in Tunisia are giving appropriate high priority to the modernization of the financial sector during the IXth Economic Development Plan (1997–2001).

Subject: Banking, Capital adequacy requirements, Commercial banks, Credit, Financial institutions, Financial regulation and supervision, Money, Multilateral development institutions, Nonperforming loans, State-owned banks

Keywords: bank category, Capital adequacy requirements, capital base, commercial bank, Commercial banks, CR, Credit, development bank, exposure to the bank's manager, financial assets, Global, ISCR, loan, Nonperforming loans, private bank, recovery company, return on assets, return on equity, share, share of credit, State-owned banks, Tunisian bank