Barbados: Financial System Stability Assessment: Update, including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the following topics: Banking Supervision and Securities Regulation
February 20, 2009
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This paper presents Barbados’s Financial System Stability Assessment Update as part of the Financial Sector Assessment Program Update. The domestic banking sector appears sound and profitable and continues to dominate the financial system. The financial system has benefited from the strong economic expansion, which has boosted credit demand while contributing to a steady improvement in banks’ asset quality. Capital adequacy for locally incorporated banks remains above the minimum required, and profits remain at healthy levels.
Subject: Banking, Credit bureaus, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Insurance, Insurance companies, Loans, Mortgages, Securities
Keywords: asset quality, bank, bank assets, bank vulnerability, banking sector, Barbados, Caribbean, cash flow, CBB, company, CR, Credit bureaus, credit union, deposit, discount window, durable goods, Global, Insurance, Insurance companies, ISCR, Loans, market capitalization, On-shore bank, onshore bank, Securities, U.S. dollar
Pages:
63
Volume:
2009
DOI:
Issue:
064
Series:
Country Report No. 2009/064
Stock No:
1BRBEA2009002
ISBN:
9781451806113
ISSN:
1934-7685
