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  "title": "Ireland: Financial System Stability Assessment",
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  "summary": "This paper discusses key findings of the Financial System Stability Assessment for Ireland. The Irish financial system has strengthened significantly since the crisis and undergone major structural changes.",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Publication date: July 28, 2016\n- Type: IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report No. 2016/258\n- Pages: 48\n- Volume: 2016\n- Issue: 258\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475517965.002\n- Stock No: 1IRLEA2016004\n- ISBN: 9781475517965\n- ISSN: 1934-7685"
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      "heading": "Key findings on financial system stability",
      "content": "- The Irish financial system has strengthened significantly since the crisis and undergone major structural changes.\n- Important banking-system vulnerabilities relate to:\n  - the real-estate sector,\n  - some parts of the corporate sector,\n  - the sovereign,\n  - funding in pound sterling.\n- Pockets of weakness remain among:\n  - highly leveraged households,\n  - smaller domestic firms.\n- Over the medium term, technological innovations and shifts in competitive pressures will challenge the profitability of both banks and nonbank financial institutions.\n- The U.K. vote to leave the EU is very likely to have negative effects on the Irish financial system."
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      "content": "- Subject: Bank resolution framework, Banking, Commercial banks, Credit, Financial crises, Financial institutions, Financial sector policy and analysis, Liquidity requirements, Loans, Money, Stress testing\n- Keywords: banking system, central bank, Commercial banks, CR, Credit, Europe, excl. bank support, financial institution, financial system, Global, ISCR, Loans, money market fund, mortgage market, portfolio turnover, pound sterling, return on assets, sovereign bond, Stress testing"
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      "content": "- Series: Country Report No. 2016/258\n- Related publication series: IMF Staff Country Reports\n- Formats: Download PDF and other formats available via IMF eLibrary (as indicated on the landing page)\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. \"Ireland: Financial System Stability Assessment\", IMF Staff Country Reports 2016, 258 (2016).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Ireland: Financial System Stability Assessment; IMF Country Report No. 16/258; July 2016\n  - Ireland: Financial System Stability Assessment; IMF Country Report No. 16/258; July 2016 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Ireland: Financial System Stability Assessment; IMF Country Report No. 16/258; July 2016 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: July 28, 2016",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475517965.002",
    "Publication date: July 28, 2016",
    "Type: IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report No. 2016/258",
    "Pages: 48",
    "Volume: 2016",
    "Issue: 258",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475517965.002",
    "Stock No: 1IRLEA2016004",
    "ISBN: 9781475517965",
    "ISSN: 1934-7685",
    "The Irish financial system has strengthened significantly since the crisis and undergone major structural changes.",
    "Important banking-system vulnerabilities relate to:",
    "Pockets of weakness remain among:",
    "Over the medium term, technological innovations and shifts in competitive pressures will challenge the profitability of both banks and nonbank financial institutions.",
    "The U.K. vote to leave the EU is very likely to have negative effects on the Irish financial system.",
    "Subject: Bank resolution framework, Banking, Commercial banks, Credit, Financial crises, Financial institutions, Financial sector policy and analysis, Liquidity requirements, Loans, Money, Stress testing",
    "Keywords: banking system, central bank, Commercial banks, CR, Credit, Europe, excl. bank support, financial institution, financial system, Global, ISCR, Loans, money market fund, mortgage market, portfolio turnover, pound sterling, return on assets, sovereign bond, Stress testing",
    "Series: Country Report No. 2016/258",
    "Related publication series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "Formats: Download PDF and other formats available via IMF eLibrary (as indicated on the landing page)",
    "**Ireland: Financial System Stability Assessment; IMF Country Report No. 16/258; July 2016**"
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