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New Zealand Banks’ Vulnerabilities and Capital Adequacy
Jang, B.; Kataoka, Masahiko - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
banks’ headline capital ratios underestimate their capital strength. A comparison with Canadian, UK and Australian banks … banks could withstand sizable stand-alone shocks to their exposure to either residential mortgages (calibrated on the Irish … merits of higher minimum capital requirements for systemically important domestic banks could be considered, together with …
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South Africa; Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes on Banking Supervision, Insurance Supervision, and Securities' Regulation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010
In South Africa, long-term insurers experienced some strains during the financial crisis, but there were no crisis-related failures. The capital markets suffered sharp declines but no systemic failures. The three standards assessments have found the regulatory system fundamentally sound. The...
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Switzerland; 2011 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for the Switzerland.
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
Although progress has been made in strengthening the Swiss economy, systemic risks posed by large banks as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244540
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Spain; Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes: Summary Assessments
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
This paper presents assessment results for the current state of the implementation of the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision (BCP) in Spain. It found that significant changes have occurred in Spain since the last Financial Sector Assessment Program. The most serious has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244598
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United States; Publication of Financial Sector Assessment Program Documentation: Detailed Assessment of Observance of Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010
This paper presents Detailed Assessment of the United States’s observance of Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision. The U.S. financial system is large and highly diversified. At the end-2007, total U.S. financial assets amounted to almost four and a half times the size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245173
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Contingent Capital; Economic Rationale and Design Features
Pazarbasioglu, Ceyla; Zhou, Jian-Ping; Leslé, Vanessa Le; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
The causes of the global financial crisis were multi-faceted but revealed still unresolved weaknesses in national and international financial oversight and resolution frameworks. In particular, many governments in the crisis-hit countries had to provide unprecedented levels of support to contain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245888
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The Global Macroeconomic Costs of Raising Bank Capital Adequacy Requirements
Vitek, Francis; Roger, Scott - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
requirements under Basel III, as well as a capital increase covering globally systemically important banks. The analysis, using an … widening of interest rate spreads by banks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654168
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Possible Unintended Consequences of Basel III and Solvency II
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
In today's financial system, complex financial institutions are connected through an opaque network of financial exposures. These connections contribute to financial deepening and greater savings allocation efficiency, but are also unstable channels of contagion. Basel III and Solvency II should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009203537
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Cyclical Implications of Changing Bank Capital Requirements in a Macroeconomic Framework
Ganapolsky, Eduardo J.J.; Catalán, Mario - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
There is a widespread view that bank capital requirements should be loosened during recessions and tightened during expansions to avoid excessive credit and output swings. This view is based on a partial analysis that ignores the effects of capital requirement policies on the saving decisions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768972
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Revisiting Risk-Weighted Assets
Avramova, Sofiya; Leslé, Vanessa Le - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
-weighted assets (RWAs) across banks and jurisdictions and how this might undermine the Basel III capital adequacy framework. We … discuss the key drivers behind the differences in these calculations, drawing upon a sample of systemically important banks …
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