United States: Publication of Financial Sector Assessment Program Documentation: Detailed Assessment of Observance of Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision
IMF Staff Country Reports, May 14, 2010
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- Published: May 14, 2010
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781455206612.002
Summary
- This paper presents Detailed Assessment of the United States’s observance of Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision.
- The U.S. financial system is described as large and highly diversified.
- At the end-2007, total U.S. financial assets amounted to almost four and a half times the size of GDP.
- Of total financial assets at end-2007, less than a one-fourth quarter were accounted for by traditional depository institutions.
- The crisis has radically changed the shape of the U.S. financial system in a short timeframe.
Key findings and statistics
- Total U.S. financial assets at end-2007: almost four and a half times the size of GDP.
- Share of total financial assets accounted for by traditional depository institutions at end-2007: less than a one-fourth quarter.
- Pages: 123
- Volume: 2010
- Issue: 121
- Series: Country Report No. 2010/121
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781455206612.002
- Stock No: 1USAEA2010003
- ISBN: 9781455206612
- ISSN: 1934-7685
Thematic coverage and keywords
- Subject areas: Bank supervision; Banking; Capital adequacy requirements; Credit; Credit risk; Financial crises; Financial regulation and supervision; Internal controls; Market risk; Money
- Keywords included in the document: balance sheet; Bank supervision; banking group; board of directors; central bank; correspondent bank; country risk; CR; Credit; Credit risk; Global; internal audit; ISCR; Market risk; member bank; risk management
International Monetary Fund. "United States: Publication of Financial Sector Assessment Program Documentation: Detailed Assessment of Observance of Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision", IMF Staff Country Reports 2010, 121 (2010).
Content in this bundle
- _cr10121 — Summary Compliance with the Basel Core Principles—Detailed