## Virtual : Financial Sector Surveillance

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**Canonical URL:** [Virtual : Financial Sector Surveillance](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ct/2023/fssct23-01v)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: CT 23.01V
- Location: Beijing, China
- Dates: March 20-24, 2023 (1 week)
- Delivery method: Virtual Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: New dates

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### Invitation and course logistics
- Session No.: CT 23.01 V
- Location: Beijing, China
- Date: March 20-24, 2023 (1 week)
- Delivery Method: Virtual Training
- Primary Language: English
- Presented by: Institute for Capacity Development

### Target audience and qualifications
- Target Audience:
  - Junior to senior 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.
- Qualifications:
  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or finance, preferably at the master’s level, or equivalent work experience; good quantitative skills; and proficiency in the use of computers to analyze data.
  - It is strongly recommended that applicants have completed the online Financial Market Analysis (FMAx) course.
  - Because many of the workshops use Microsoft Excel worksheets, familiarity with the basics of Excel is important.

### Course description
- The course introduces participants to key concepts and tools used in the identification and assessment of financial sector vulnerabilities and sources of strength.
- Provides a basic toolkit to assess financial sector risks and measure them against existing capital and liquidity buffers in the financial system.
- Focuses on early identification of unwarranted macro-financial imbalances and analysis of the transmission of financial distress across institutions, markets, and economic sectors, with the objective of reducing the likelihood and the severity of financial crises.
- Uses a combination of lectures and hands-on workshops to allow participants to apply essential risk assessment techniques.

### Course objectives
- Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
  - Measure the main risks facing banks (e.g., credit, market, funding) and their respective capital and liquidity buffers, from a systemic financial stability perspective.
  - Design and perform basic stress tests of solvency and liquidity and interpret the results.
  - Recognize the importance of nonbank financial intermediaries and their links to banks.
  - Assess macro-financial linkages, including the links between the financial sector, the government, and the real economy, along with potential amplification mechanisms.
  - Track the buildup of systemic risk and vulnerabilities associated with credit, real estate prices, leverage, balance sheet mismatches, and interconnectedness.
  - Assess how shocks can amplify throughout the financial system, e.g., through adverse liquidity spirals or feedback effects between asset prices and leverage.

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## References

- [Virtual Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Executive Training 2 on Fiscal Policy Considerations (FPA)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fpcce26-16)
- [Tax Regional Workshop on Strategic Management](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/taxce26-43)
- [Institutional Sector Accounts-Advanced - Blended (ISA-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/hq/2027/isa-ahq27-02)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ct/2023/fssct23-01v_