## Virtual : Financial Soundness Indicators (FSI)

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Virtual : Financial Soundness Indicators (FSI)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2022/fsice22-13v)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: CE 22.13V
- Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait
- Dates: March 14-17, 2022 (1 week)
- Delivery method: Virtual Training
- Primary language: English
- Interpretation language: Arabic
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Target audience and qualifications
- Target audience: Officials at central banks and supervisory agencies for the financial sector who are involved in the collection, compilation, and analysis of financial soundness indicators.
- Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics, or equivalent experience.

### Course description — scope and content
- Presented by the Statistics Department.
- Purpose: Acquaints participants with the fundamentals of compiling and using financial soundness indicators (FSIs) in support of macroprudential analysis.
- Methodological foundation: Covers methodological and technical issues in the construction of FSIs, as discussed in the 2019 Financial Soundness Indicators Compilation Guide (2019 FSI Guide).
- The course includes lectures and workshops on:
  - institutional sectors;
  - consolidation bases and adjustments for FSIs;
  - regulatory framework for deposit takers;
  - accounting principles and sectoral financial statements for FSIs;
  - core and additional FSIs for deposit takers, other financial corporations, and other sectors;
  - financial sector surveillance and FSIs;
  - macroprudential analysis and FSIs.
- Hands-on exercises:
  - Group work resolving practical questions of classification of financial institutional units.
  - Construction of different reporting populations for FSIs according to different consolidation bases.
  - Calculation of Basel solvency and liquidity ratios.
  - Production of sectoral financial statements and FSIs for deposit takers.
  - Use of FSIs for financial sector surveillance.
- Tools and guidance:
  - Introduction to templates for regular reporting of FSI data and metadata to the IMF.
  - Guidance in accessing and using the IMF database for FSI data and metadata.

### Course objectives — competencies on completion
- Compile FSIs in accordance with the methodology of the 2019 FSI Guide, using source data obtained from sectoral financial statements and supervisory report forms.
- Calculate FSIs using different consolidation bases and interpret the different results obtained.
- Prepare or update FSI metadata, including information about key aspects of the conceptual framework used to prepare source data and the FSI compilation practices.
- Analyze and interpret FSIs compiled for the financial sector and their use in financial sector supervision and macroprudential policy.

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## References

- [Virtual Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2027/cbsat27-10)
- [Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/gfs-ace26-45)
- [Fiscal Sustainability (FS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fsce26-38)
- [Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/sacat26-30)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2022/fsice22-13v_