## United Kingdom: Financial Sector Assessment Program Technical Notes and Detailed Standards Assessments

_IMF Staff Country Reports, July 14, 2003_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: July 14, 2003
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451814200.002

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### Scope and Purpose
- Reviews the Financial Sector Assessment Program of the United Kingdom.
- Examines the United Kingdom’s public debt management practices using the IMF-World Bank Guidelines for Public Debt Management as a framework.
- Analyzes the government’s Code for Fiscal Stability, transparency, accountability, debt strategy, and risk management framework.
- Provides a detailed assessment of the antimoney laundering and combating the financing of terrorism regime and compliance of the Basel Core Principles of the United Kingdom.

### Major Assessments and Analytical Focus
- Public debt management:
  - Assessment framed against the IMF-World Bank Guidelines for Public Debt Management.
  - Reviews debt strategy, transparency, accountability, and risk management framework.
- Fiscal framework:
  - Analysis of the government’s Code for Fiscal Stability.
- Financial stability and regulatory compliance:
  - Detailed assessment of compliance with the Basel Core Principles.
  - Examination of the financial regulatory framework and supervisory practices.
- Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT):
  - Detailed assessment of the United Kingdom’s AML/CFT regime.

### Subjects and Keywords (as listed)
- Subjects:
  - Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT)
  - Banking
  - Crime
  - Financial institutions
  - Financial sector policy and analysis
  - Financial stability assessment
  - Government debt management
  - Insurance companies
  - Money laundering
  - Public financial management (PFM)
- Keywords:
  - Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT)
  - BoE work
  - CR
  - Europe
  - financial market
  - Financial stability assessment
  - FSA approach
  - FSA handbook
  - FSA oversight
  - Global
  - Government debt management
  - Insurance companies
  - ISCR
  - market participant
  - Money laundering
  - North America
  - U.K. financial system
  - U.K. market
  - work program

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