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  "title": "Sweden: Financial Sector Assessment Program Update: Technical Note on Stress Testing of the Banking Sector",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, September 16, 2011",
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      "content": "- Although Sweden has recovered from the financial crisis, authorities have already initiated exit measures from crisis response policies.\n- The Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) Update undertook a financial stability analysis of the banking sector, including a comprehensive stress-testing exercise of banks’ solvency and liquidity positions.\n- While the banking sector appears resilient to credit risk stress tests, liquidity stress test results reveal some weaknesses owing to its heavy reliance on wholesale funding.\n- Swedish bank groups have extensive cross-border activities, mostly in the Scandinavian and Baltic regions."
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781463903596.002",
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