Financial Soundness Indicators

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Event: Financial Soundness Indicators (FSI) training program presented by the Statistics Department.
Session No.: CE 25.02.
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Date: January 6-10, 2025 (1 week).
Delivery Method: In-person Training.
Primary Language: English.
Interpretation Language: Arabic.
Status: Deadline passed.
Target Audience: Officials at central banks and supervisory agencies of the financial sector involved in the collection, compilation, and analysis of financial soundness indicators (FSIs).
Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics, or equivalent experience.

Purpose: Acquaint participants with the fundamentals of compiling and using FSIs in support of macroprudential analysis.
Methodological basis: Covers methodological and technical issues in the construction of FSIs as discussed in the 2019 Financial Soundness Indicators Compilation Guide (2019 FSI Guide).
Instructional approach: Interactive, using hands-on exercises.
Main topics addressed:
- Preparation of the sectoral financial statements and compilation of FSIs for deposit takers, other financial corporations (OFCs), and nonfinancial corporations (NFCs).
- Regulatory framework for deposit takers.
- Accounting principles and data consolidation for the compilation of FSIs for deposit takers.
- Metadata reporting.
- Overview of FSIs for Household sector and Real Estate markets.

Upon completion, participants should be able to:
- Prepare the sectoral financial statements and compile FSIs for deposit takers in accordance with the methodology of the 2019 FSI Guide.
- Prepare and update FSI metadata using concepts acquired on accounting principles and regulatory framework for deposit takers.
- Source data and prepare the sectoral financial statements to compile FSIs for OFCs, NFCs, and Households.
- Interpret FSIs for macro-financial surveillance.