High-Level Summary Technical Assistance Reports

This High-Level Summary technical assistance report presents mission’s summary and recommendations of financial stability report (FSR). The technical assistance aimed to enhance the FSR of the Central Bank of Suriname. The mission concluded that the preparation of detailed FSR production plan and communication strategy are critical and could facilitate improvements, promote the report, and bring some synergies between different teams involved. The report should reflect on all-important elements of financial stability assessment and needs to be streamlined to follow the central story with the key messages. The quality of the report could be further improved by advancements in the employed analytical toolkit and utilization of all available data sources. In the meantime, the existing data gaps could be covered by different surveys with the industry. Finally, the CBS should initiate a discussion on software/tools that would be used for processing big data in the Bank.