## Financial Sector Surveillance

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Financial Sector Surveillance](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/st/2024/fssst24-18)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: ST 24.18
- 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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### Program details
- Session No.: ST 24.18
- Deadline passed
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Date: May 6-17, 2024 (2 weeks)
- Delivery Method: In-person Training
- Primary Language: English

### Target audience and qualifications
- 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.
- Qualifications:
  - Expected to have a 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.
  - It is strongly recommended that applicants have completed the online Financial Market Analysis (FMAx) course.
  - Familiarity with the basics of Microsoft Excel is important because many workshops use Excel worksheets.

### Course description
- Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.
- 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.
- Focuses on early identification of unwarranted macro-financial imbalances and analysis of the transmission of financial distress across institutions, markets, and economic sectors, with the objective of reducing the likelihood and the severity of financial crises.
- Uses a combination of lectures and hands-on workshops to allow participants to apply essential risk assessment techniques.

### Course objectives and competencies upon 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.

### Additional note
- IMF offers online training to government officials and the public; interested participants are directed to learn more about current offerings.

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## References

- [In-person Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [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/fssst24-18_