Tunisia: Financial Sector Assessment Program Update: Detailed Assessment of Compliance of the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision
IMF Staff Country Reports, March 7, 2007
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Bibliographic details
- Published: March 7, 2007
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451837919.002
Summary of assessment
- The paper presents key findings of the Detailed Assessment of Compliance of the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision for Tunisia.
- The findings indicate that the Central Bank of Tunisia (Banque Centrale de Tunisi/BCT) monitors supervised institutions closely.
- Monitoring activities include:
- examining prudential reports;
- reviewing numerous documents that the external auditors of the credit institutions must submit at the close of each year;
- extracting information from inspection reports.
- Direction Générale de Supervision Bancaire (DGSB) staff are trained in economics, accounting, and finance.
- Also available online in French.
Supervisory practices and capacity
- Supervisory focus:
- Prudential reporting review.
- Year-end external auditor submissions from credit institutions.
- Use of inspection reports as an information source.
- Human capital:
- DGSB staff training disciplines explicitly include economics, accounting, and finance.
Subjects and keywords (as listed)
- Subject: Bank supervision, Banking, Basel Core Principles, Credit, External audit, Financial regulation and supervision, Internal controls, Money, Public financial management (PFM), Revenue administration
- Keywords: asset recovery company, Bank supervision, banking system, Basel Core Principles, board of directors, capital base, central bank, CR, Credit, credit institution, External audit, Global, internal audit, Internal controls, ISCR, venture capital
International Monetary Fund. "Tunisia: Financial Sector Assessment Program Update: Detailed Assessment of Compliance of the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision", IMF Staff Country Reports 2007, 098 (2007).