Global Financial Stability Report

Global Financial Stability Report, April 2008: Containing Systemic Risks and Restoring Financial Soundness

April 8, 2008

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International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department Global Financial Stability Report, April 2008: Containing Systemic Risks and Restoring Financial Soundness, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2008) accessed 12/7/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589067202.082

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Summary

The events of the past six months have demonstrated the fragility of the global financial system and raised fundamental questions about the effectiveness of the response by private and public sector institutions. The report assesses the vulnerabilities that the system is facing and offers tentative conclusions and policy lessons. The report reflects information available up to March 21, 2008.

Subject: Asset and liability management, Banking, CDOs, Credit, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Financial regulation and supervision, Liquidity, Liquidity risk, Loans, Money

Keywords: Africa, asset, Baltics, bank, carry trade, CDOs, central bank activism, commercial paper, Credit, credit market, director, Emerging and frontier financial markets, emerging market bond Index, Europe, fair value, funding market, GFSR, Global, Liquidity, Liquidity risk, Loans, market, market functioning, market liquidity, Middle East, Middle East and Central Asia, mortgage-backed security, security, subprime mortgage, U.S. dollar

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