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United Kingdom: Financial System Stability Assessment including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the following topics: Banking Supervision, Insurance Supervision, Securities Regulation, Payment Systems, Monetary and Financial Transparency, Securities Settlement Systems, and Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Terrorist Financing

March 3, 2003

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International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department "United Kingdom: Financial System Stability Assessment including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the following topics: Banking Supervision, Insurance Supervision, Securities Regulation, Payment Systems, Monetary and Financial Transparency, Securities Settlement Systems, and Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Terrorist Financing", IMF Staff Country Reports 2003, 046 (2003), accessed 12/16/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451814125.002

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This paper presents key findings of the Financial System Stability Assessment for the United Kingdom, including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on Banking Supervision, Insurance Supervision, Securities Regulation, Payments Systems, Monetary and Financial Policy Transparency, and Securities Settlement Systems. The financial sector of the United Kingdom is supported by a financial policy framework that has been significantly strengthened in a number of ways in recent years, and that in many respects is at the forefront internationally. The supervision framework complies or largely complies with most international standards and codes.

Subject: Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Banking, Crime, Financial institutions, Financial sector policy and analysis, Financial sector stability, Financial stability assessment, Insurance companies, Money laundering

Keywords: Africa, Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), central bank, CR, Europe, financial market, Financial sector stability, Financial stability assessment, financial system, FSA authorization, FSA compliance checking, FSA official, FSA rule, FSA sourcebook, Global, Insurance companies, ISCR, market discipline, monetary policy, Money laundering, Northern Europe, U.K. banking market, Western Europe

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