Financial Sector Assessment: A Handbook

Manuals & Guides, September 29, 2005

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• Published: September 29, 2005
• Series: Manuals & Guides
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9780821364321.069

Overview / Purpose

• Presents an overall analytical framework for assessing financial system stability and developmental needs.
• Provides broad guidance on approaches, methodologies, and techniques of assessing financial systems.
• Draws substantially on World Bank and IMF experience with the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) and broader policy and operational work in both institutions.
• Designed for generic use in financial sector assessments, whether conducted by country authorities themselves, or by World Bank and IMF teams.

Key Findings and Focus Areas

• Intended coverage and analytical focus:
  • Financial system stability
  • Developmental needs of financial systems
  • Approaches, methodologies, and techniques for assessment
• Subject classifications listed:
  • Banking
  • Economic sectors
  • Financial sector
  • Financial sector policy and analysis
  • Financial sector stability
  • Financial services
  • Financial soundness indicators
  • Legal support in revenue administration
  • Revenue administration

Keywords / Geographic and Thematic Scope

• Keywords explicitly associated with the Handbook:
  • AML-CFT regime
  • Asia and Pacific
  • bank
  • Caribbean
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • company
  • Europe
  • financial institution
  • Financial sector
  • Financial sector stability
  • Financial soundness indicators
  • Global
  • Legal support in revenue administration
  • M&G
  • market
  • market development
  • market liquidity
  • market participant
  • microfinance sector
  • Southern Africa

Target Users and Use Cases

• Country authorities conducting self-assessments of financial systems.
• World Bank and IMF teams conducting FSAPs or other financial sector assessments.
• Analysts and policymakers seeking a modular framework covering stability and development aspects of financial sectors.

Source: International Monetary Fund — Financial Sector Assessment: A Handbook (Web landing page summary).