## Financial Sector Surveillance (FSS)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: CT 24.19
- Location: Shenzhen, China
- Dates: December 9-13, 2024 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English

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### Invitation and logistics
- Session No.: CT 24.19
- Location: Shenzhen, China
- Date: December 9-13, 2024 (1 week)
- Delivery Method: In-person Training
- Primary Language: English
- 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 and participant expectations
- Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or finance, preferably at the master’s level, or equivalent work experience.
- Required skills: good quantitative skills; proficiency in the use of computers to analyze data.
- Strong recommendation: applicants have completed the online Financial Market Analysis (FMAx) course.
- Practical requirement: familiarity with the basics of Microsoft Excel because many of the workshops use Excel worksheets.

### Course description
- Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.
- 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.
- Delivery format: combination of lectures and hands-on workshops allowing participants to apply essential risk assessment techniques.

### Course objectives (upon completion, participants should be able to)
- Measure the main risks facing banks (e.g., credit, market, liquidity, 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.
- Understand the main climate risk drivers and transmission channels to financial institutions¿ balance sheets and perform basic climate stress tests.
- 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, 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

- [In-person 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)
- [Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/mrcce26-44)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ct/2024/fssct24-19_