Financial Sector Surveillance

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Training Program title: Financial Sector Surveillance
Session No.: CT 27.02
Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.
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.

Expected background:
- Degree in economics or finance, preferably at the master’s level, or equivalent work experience.
- 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 skills: familiarity with the basics of Microsoft Excel is important because many workshops use Excel worksheets.

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.
Focus areas:
- Early identification of unwarranted macro-financial imbalances.
- Analysis of the transmission of financial distress across institutions, markets, and economic sectors.
- Objective: reducing the likelihood and the severity of financial crises.
Format: Combination of lectures and hands-on workshops that allow participants to apply essential risk assessment techniques.

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.