## Germany: Financial Sector Stability Assessment

_IMF Staff Country Reports, July 12, 2011_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: July 12, 2011
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781455298754.002

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### Overview
- Examines the stability of Germany’s financial sector after the global crisis.
- Discusses stability issues in terms of financial system vulnerability and the banking system.
- Notes that reconsideration of principles and practices of financial sector regulation and supervision is owed to the financial crisis.

### Financial system vulnerability and the banking system
- Analyzes financial system vulnerability.
- Focuses on the banking system as a central channel of systemic risk.
- Addresses supervisory architecture as a component of system resilience.

### Financial soundness indicators and stress testing
- Financial soundness indicators (FSIs) are cited as proving the stability of the banking system.
- A stress test was conducted with the Bundesbank.

### Insurance sector
- Finds the insurance sector had a moderate effect owing to the global crisis.

### Regulatory, supervisory, and crisis-management implications
- Recommends reconsideration of principles and practices of financial sector regulation and supervision.
- Analyzes:
  - Supervisory architecture
  - Macroprudential and microprudential policies
  - Crisis management frameworks

### Key findings and thematic keywords
- Key thematic findings:
  - Banking sector stability supported by FSIs.
  - Joint stress-testing with the Bundesbank informed resilience assessment.
  - Insurance sector impact characterized as moderate.
  - Need for reassessment of regulatory and supervisory frameworks post-crisis.
- Subjects and keywords included on the page:
  - Banking, Commercial banks, Cooperative banks, Financial crises, Financial institutions, Financial sector policy and analysis, Financial sector stability, Systemically important financial institutions
  - bank borrowing, bank levy, bank resolution, bank restructuring law, bank solvency, banking sector, Commercial banks, Cooperative banks, CR, Europe, financial crisis, financial market, Financial sector stability, financial system, Global, ISCR, problem bank, resolution framework, restructuring law, risk management practice, Risk-Adjusted Performance, Systemically important financial institutions

*Source: Germany: Financial Sector Stability Assessment (IMF Staff Country Reports).*

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