Georgia: Technical Assistance Report—Strengthening Regulation, Supervision, and Oversight of Micro Lending Institutions

September 3, 2020

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Georgia: Technical Assistance Report—Strengthening Regulation, Supervision, and Oversight of Micro Lending Institutions, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2020) accessed September 18, 2024

Summary

In the past two years, the NBG has adopted a series of measures to strengthen nonbank sector financial regulation, supervision, and oversight.1 The MCM TA mission in 2017 provided recommendations along these lines, most of which have been implemented by the NBG. Currently, the nonbank sector consists of Micro Financial Institutions (MFIs) and Loan Issuing Entities (LIEs). In reforming the sector, the NBG has, among others: (i) amended laws and issued new and revised regulations on registration, capital, and liquidity requirements for MFIs; (ii) significantly expanded supervisory powers and authorities and increased supervisory resources for the nonbank sector; (iii) registered 200 LIEs; and (iv) put in place consumer protection and responsibility lending rules. These new measures have helped to enhance the resilience of the nonbank sector, weed out those that are non-viable, and improved the reputation of the MFI brand.

Subject: Banking, Capital adequacy requirements, Commercial banks, Deposit insurance, Economic sectors, Financial crises, Financial institutions, Financial regulation and supervision, Loans, Small and medium enterprises

Keywords: Bank loan, Bank status, Capital adequacy requirements, Commercial banks, Cost of funds, CR, Deposit insurance, ISCR, Loan portfolio, Loans, MFI representative, MFI sector, MFIS deposit base, NBG nonbank supervision department, NBG staff, NBG supervisor, Small and medium enterprises, Southeast Asia, Supervision framework

Publication Details

Pages:

36
Volume:

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DOI:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2020/273
Stock No:

1GEOEA2020005
ISBN:

9781513556406
ISSN:

1934-7685

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