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

April 8, 2008

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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

Pages:
208
Volume:
2008
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589067202.082
Issue:
001
Series:
Global Financial Stability Report No. 2008/001
Stock No:
GFSREA2008001
ISBN:
9781589067202
ISSN:
1729-701X

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