El Salvador: Financial System Stability Assessment

February 11, 2014

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El Salvador: Financial System Stability Assessment, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2014) accessed June 12, 2025

Summary

This paper presents an assessment of financial sector stability in El Salvador. The findings reveal that the financial system of El Salvador was resilient in the face of the global shocks and political uncertainty that took a toll on the economy in 2009. The new stand-by arrangement with the IMF bolstered confidence in the new authority’s policies and eased concern over the limited lender-of-last-resort capacity of the central bank. Despite the adverse economic environment of 2009, banks’ capitalization and liquidity remain high, and stress tests indicate that most banks could withstand severe shocks. Regulated nonbanks are also sound, but pension funds’ poor profitability could pose a problem in the longer term.

Subject: Banking, Credit, Financial institutions, Financial regulation and supervision, Financial Sector Assessment Program, Financial sector policy and analysis, Loans, Money, State-owned banks

Keywords: Banking law, Capital adequacy ratio, Central America, Central bank, Commercial bank, CR, Credit, Credit risk, External borrowing, Financial crisis, Financial Sector Assessment Program, Financial system, Global, Interest rate, ISCR, Loans, Problem bank Resolution, Real GDP, Resolution process, Simulation exercise, State-owned banks

Publication Details

Pages:

65
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2014/044
Stock No:

1SLVEA2014001
ISBN:

9781475513790
ISSN:

1934-7685

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