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  "title": "Virtual : Financial Sector Surveillance",
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  "summary": "Virtual : Financial Sector Surveillance Training Program Target Audience Junior to mid-level government officials tasked with surveillance of the financial sector, especially staff of the central bank, financial regulators, and other agencies that engage in macroprudential oversight.",
  "publishDate": "2021-02-18",
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      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience:\n  - Junior to mid-level government officials tasked with surveillance of the financial sector, especially staff of the central bank, financial regulators, and other agencies that engage in macroprudential oversight.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Expected to have a degree in economics or finance, preferably at the master’s level, or equivalent work experience.\n  - Good quantitative skills.\n  - Proficiency in the use of computers to analyze data.\n  - Recommended to have completed the online Financial Market Analysis (FMAx) course.\n  - Familiarity with the basics of Microsoft Excel is important because the workshop uses Microsoft Excel worksheets.\n  - The course will be conducted in English."
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      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.\n- Introduces key concepts and tools used in the identification and assessment of financial sector vulnerabilities and sources of strength.\n- Provides a basic toolkit to assess financial sector risks and measure them against existing capital and liquidity buffers in the financial system.\n- Focuses on:\n  - Early identification of macro-financial imbalances.\n  - Analysis of the transmission of financial distress across institutions, markets, and economic sectors.\n- Objective: reduce the likelihood and the severity of financial crises."
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      "heading": "Course objectives (learning outcomes)",
      "content": "Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:\n- Measure the main risks facing banks (e.g., credit, market, funding), from a systemic financial stability perspective.\n- Design and perform basic stress tests of solvency and liquidity and interpret the results.\n- Assess macro-financial linkages, along with potential amplification mechanisms.\n- Track the buildup of systemic risk and vulnerabilities associated with credit, leverage, balance sheet mismatches, and interconnectedness."
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    "Objective: reduce the likelihood and the severity of financial crises.",
    "Measure the main risks facing banks (e.g., credit, market, funding), from a systemic financial stability perspective.",
    "Design and perform basic stress tests of solvency and liquidity and interpret the results.",
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