## Financial Sector Surveillance

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Financial Sector Surveillance](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/st/2024/fssst24-15)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: ST 24.15
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Dates: May 6-17, 2024 (2 weeks)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Training program and target audience
- Training Program: Financial Sector Surveillance
- 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.

### Course logistics
- Session No.: ST 24.15
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Date: May 6-17, 2024 (2 weeks)
- Delivery Method: In-person Training
- Primary Language: English
- Deadline: Deadline passed

### Qualifications and prerequisites
- Expected background: degree in economics or finance, preferably at the master’s level, or equivalent work experience.
- Skills: good quantitative skills; proficiency in the use of computers to analyze data.
- Recommendations: It is strongly recommended that applicants have completed the online Financial Market Analysis (FMAx) course.
- Technical tools: Because many of the workshops use Microsoft Excel worksheets, familiarity with the basics of Excel is important.

### Course description
- Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.
- Introduces 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 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 allowing participants to apply essential risk assessment techniques.

### Course objectives (participants should be able to)
- Measure the main risks facing banks (e.g., credit, market, 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.
- 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, real estate prices, 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)
- [Investor Relations and Sovereign Bond Issuance (LCBM)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/sa/2026/lcbmsa26-44)
- [Fintech Market Development and Policy Implications (FINTECH)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/st/2026/fintechst26-23)
- [Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/gfs-ace26-45)
- [Tax Regional Workshop on Strategic Management](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/taxce26-43)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/st/2024/fssst24-15_