## Financial Sector Assessment: A Handbook

_Manuals & Guides, September 29, 2005_

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**Canonical URL:** [Financial Sector Assessment: A Handbook](https://www.imf.org/en/publications/manuals-guides/issues/2017/01/01/financial-sector-assessment-a-handbook-18600)

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: September 29, 2005
- Series: Manuals & Guides
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9780821364321.069

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### 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).*

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_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/manuals-guides/issues/2017/01/01/financial-sector-assessment-a-handbook-18600_