IMF Staff Country Reports

Thailand: Financial Sector Assessment Program-Technical Note-Risk Assessment

Publication Date:

October 24, 2019

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

This technical note on the risk assessment for Thailand discusses that the Thai banking system shows a substantial resilience to severe shocks. The solvency stress tests indicate that the largest banks can withstand an adverse scenario broadly as severe as the Asian financial crisis. While three banks would deplete their capital conservation buffer (CCB) under the adverse scenario, recapitalization needs would be minimal. A battery of complementary sensitivity stress tests, which allows to cover in more detail certain risk factors, also confirmed the overall picture of a resilient baking system: no particular vulnerability emerged from the analysis of the bond portfolio to an increase in government and corporate spreads, exposure to foreign exchange risk, and concentration risk in the loan portfolio, with the possible exception of one entity with a particular concentration on single-name exposures. The liquidity stress test on investment funds (IFs) showed that they would be able to withstand a severe redemption shock and its impact on the banks and the bond market would be limited.

Series:

Country Report No. 2019/318

Subject:

Banking Commercial banks Currencies Financial institutions Financial regulation and supervision Financial sector policy and analysis Liquidity requirements Money Mutual funds Stress testing