## Financial Sector Surveillance

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**Canonical URL:** [Financial Sector Surveillance](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ct/2027/fssct27-02)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: CT 27.02
- Location: Shenzhen, China New location
- Dates: March 15-19, 2027 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Apply online by December 21, 2026 Deadline extended

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### Training program and target audience
- 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.

### Session logistics
- Location: Shenzhen, China New location
- Date: March 15-19, 2027 (1 week) New dates
- Delivery Method: In-person Training
- Primary Language: English

### Qualifications and application
- 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.

### 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.
- 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.

### Course objectives (skills and competencies on completion)
- 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)
- [Apply Now](https://www-ins.imf.org/TAS/signon.aspx?pkey=CT27.02E)
- [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/2027/fssct27-02_