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Denmark: Financial Sector Assessment Program-Technical Note-Systemic Risk Oversight and Macroprudential Policy Framework

August 12, 2020

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Denmark: Financial Sector Assessment Program-Technical Note-Systemic Risk Oversight and Macroprudential Policy Framework, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2020) accessed December 4, 2024

Summary

COVID-19 pandemic: The Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) work was conducted prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, so this Technical Note (TN) does not assess the impact of the crisis or the recent crisis-related policy measures. Nonetheless, given the FSAP’s focus on vulnerabilities and policy frameworks, the findings and recommendations of the TN remain pertinent. While Denmark’s institutional arrangements are uncommon, the authorities have undertaken several macroprudential measures since the last FSAP. The Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs (MIBFA) has decision-making power over most macroprudential tools in Denmark, which is rare in international practice. However, the Systemic Risk Council (SRC), which includes members from the Danmarks Nationalbank (DN) and Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (DFSA) plays an advisory role and has powers to give recommendations with a comply or explain mechanism. In recent years, the authorities have taken wide-ranging macroprudential policy actions in response to growing systemic vulnerabilities, which have seemed to slow down some of the riskier trends. More recently, in response to the Covid-19 crisis, countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB) has been fully released.

Subject: Financial institutions, Financial sector policy and analysis, Housing prices, Macroprudential policy, Mortgages, Prices, Systemic risk, Systemic risk assessment

Keywords: Baltics, Capital requirement, Central bank, Coordination role, CR, Debt service, Europe, Global, Housing market, Housing prices, ISCR, Macroprudential policy, Member institution, Mortgages, Risk weight, SRC ability, SRC chair, SRC meeting, SRC member, SRC secretariat, Systemic risk, Systemic risk assessment

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    51

  • Volume:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2020/253

  • Stock No:

    1DNKEA2020004

  • ISBN:

    9781513553030

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685