Brazil: Financial System Stability Assessment

November 30, 2018

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Brazil: Financial System Stability Assessment, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2018) accessed September 19, 2024

Summary

Since the Brazil 2012 FSAP, the financial system has been stable despite the deep recession. The resiliency of the banking system was supported by high profitability, buoyed by large interest margins. While the financial system has grown since the 2012 FSAP, its structure remains largely unchanged. The system is dominated by large, vertically-integrated financial conglomerates and concentrated in liquid short-term instruments. The public sector continues to play a dominant role in the financial sector, and its interconnectedness. Banks are broadly resilient to severe macrofinancial shocks. Current high profits and capital ratios support the resiliency of banks under a severe stress test scenario. Under the stress scenario, small capital shortfalls result; banks would nevertheless experience reduced income, including from market loss on government bonds, and high credit losses on exposures to the corporate sector which, despite recent improvement, is still vulnerable to shocks. This benign outcome deteriorates if their capital is adjusted for deferred tax assets. Moreover, some banks are exposed to concentration risk. Some actions are still needed to address bank-specific risk profiles to boost their resilience. Banks are generally well-positioned to manage short-term and medium-term liquidity pressures and interbank contagion seems limited.

Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Credit, Economic sectors, Financial institutions, Financial sector, Financial Sector Assessment Program, Money, Mutual funds, Pension spending, State-owned banks

Keywords: Banco central, Bridge bank statute, Capital ratio, Central bank, Commercial banks, CR, Credit, Credit risk, Due diligence, Financial product, Financial sector, Financial system, Fixed income, Foreign exchange, FX market, Global, Government bond, Insurance fund, Interest rate, ISCR, Mutual funds, Risk profile, Solo bank requirement, State-owned banks

Publication Details

Pages:

96
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2018/339
Stock No:

1BRAEA2018003
ISBN:

9781484387474
ISSN:

1934-7685

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