Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIx) — Training Program (OL 24.164)
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- Session: OL 24.164
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: May 1, 2024 - April 15, 2025 (50 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed
Program overview and logistics
- Session No.: OL 24.164
- Location: Course conducted online
- Date: May 1, 2024 - April 15, 2025 (50 weeks)
- Delivery Method: Online Training
- Primary Language: English
- Status: Deadline passed
- Presented by: Statistics Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Target audience and participant qualifications
- Target Audience:
- Officials at central banks and supervisory agencies for the financial sector who are involved in the collection, compilation, and analysis of financial soundness indicators (FSIs).
- Qualifications and participant requirements:
- Expected academic background: a degree in economics, statistics, finance or accounting, or equivalent experience.
- Technical requirements: access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser.
Course content and scope
- Purpose:
- Introduce participants to the underlying concepts, definitions, and methodology for the compilation of Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIs).
- Historical and institutional context:
- FSIs were developed by the IMF in the late 1990 s and currently, more than 140 countries compile and report FSIs to the IMF.
- Coverage:
- History of the FSIs and their application in surveillance and macroprudential analysis.
- The conceptual framework for the FSIs, including regulatory capital, leverage and liquidity concepts used in FSI compilation.
- The data collection process for FSI compilation and its underlying aggregation and consolidation methodologies.
- The application of core and additional FSIs in macroprudential analysis.
- FSIs for non-deposit takers: identification of source data, specification of FSIs, and explanation of application in macroprudential analysis.
- Key reference:
- Financial Soundness Indicators Compilation Guide revised in 2019; the 2019 FSIs Guide is described as the ultimate authority on FSI concepts and methods and is the foundation of the course.
Learning objectives (upon completion)
- Define the key concepts of the FSIs and their application in surveillance and macroprudential analysis.
- Define the conceptual framework including application of the regulatory capital, leverage and liquidity concepts used in FSI compilation.
- Describe the data preparation process for FSI compilation, and apply the recommended aggregation and consolidation methodologies.
- Specify each of the Core and Additional FSIs for deposit-takers and explain the application of each in macroprudential analysis.
- Identify the source data and specify the FSIs for non-deposit takers, and explain their application in macroprudential analysis.
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