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  "title": "Financial Sector Policies",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ct/2026/fspct26-03",
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  "summary": "Financial Sector Policies Training Program Target Audience Junior to senior government officials engaged in setting policy for the financial sector, particularly the staff of central banks, financial regulators, and any other agencies involved in micro- or macroprudential oversight.",
  "publishDate": "2025-10-24",
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    {
      "heading": "Target audience",
      "content": "- Junior to senior government officials engaged in setting policy for the financial sector, particularly the staff of central banks, financial regulators, and any other agencies involved in micro- or macroprudential oversight."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Session logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: CT 26.03\n- Location: Shenzhen, China\n- Date: March 23-27, 2026 (1 week) New dates\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Deadline passed"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications and prerequisites",
      "content": "- Expected qualifications:\n  - An advanced degree in economics or finance, or equivalent work experience.\n  - A basic understanding of econometrics and the ability to interpret econometric results.\n- Strong recommendations:\n  - Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.\n  - Preferable to have taken the Financial Sector Surveillance (FSS) course because understanding and assessing financial sector risks is important to the design of mitigating policies."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- Overview of financial risks and transmission channels:\n  - How financial risks are transmitted within and between the financial system and the real sector.\n- Policy design and impact:\n  - Examination of the design and impact of financial sector policies to mitigate assessed vulnerabilities.\n  - Rationale for micro-prudential and macroprudential policies.\n  - Discussion of interactions between macroeconomic and macro-prudential policies.\n- Preventive and crisis management focus:\n  - Emphasis on preventive strategies.\n  - Discussion of policies to manage situations of financial distress and contingency planning.\n- Pedagogy:\n  - Combination of lectures, case studies, and hands-on workshops to discuss and experiment with various policies and gauge intended and unintended outcomes.\n- Note on scope:\n  - Those primarily interested in risk assessment are referred to the Financial Sector Surveillance course, where the focus is primarily quantitative."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives (learning outcomes)",
      "content": "- Identify channels through which shocks are transmitted between the financial sector and the real economy, and within and between financial systems.\n- Analyze relevant micro- and macroprudential policies, how they are likely to interact with other policies, and any possible unintended consequences.\n- Recommend macroprudential tools to prevent and mitigate systemic risk and identify likely specific implementation challenges.\n- Assess the effectiveness of micro-prudential and macroprudential policies."
    }
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    "Session No.: CT 26.03",
    "Location: Shenzhen, China",
    "Date: March 23-27, 2026 (1 week) New dates",
    "Delivery Method: In-person Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Deadline passed",
    "Expected qualifications:",
    "Strong recommendations:",
    "Overview of financial risks and transmission channels:",
    "Policy design and impact:",
    "Preventive and crisis management focus:",
    "Pedagogy:",
    "Note on scope:",
    "Identify channels through which shocks are transmitted between the financial sector and the real economy, and within and between financial systems.",
    "Analyze relevant micro- and macroprudential policies, how they are likely to interact with other policies, and any possible unintended consequences.",
    "Recommend macroprudential tools to prevent and mitigate systemic risk and identify likely specific implementation challenges.",
    "Assess the effectiveness of micro-prudential and macroprudential policies."
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