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Tunisia; Financial System Stability Assessment Update
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
From the 2002 Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP), a number of structural reforms have been carried out in the financial system. A number of measures have been taken in the regulatory, fiscal, and legal areas to improve credit quality and financial transparency. The stress test confirms...
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Sweden; Financial Sector Assessment Program Update: Detailed Assessment of Observance on Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
This paper discusses the current state of Swedish implementation of the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision (BCP). The banking supervisory framework and its implementation in Sweden are in line with many of Basel Core Principles’ essential criteria. However, the...
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Denmark; Financial Sector Assessment Program: Detailed Assessment of Observance of the Basel Core Principles
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This paper discusses key findings of the Detailed Assessment of Observance of the Basel Core Principles for Denmark. The assessment reveals that the basic legal framework is contained in the Financial Business Act (FBA), and in executive orders and explanatory guidelines issued pursuant to the...
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Israel; Detailed Assessment of Observance of Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
A detailed assessment of Israel’s compliance with the Basel Core Principles for effective banking supervision is presented. The Bachar reform that has been started in mid-2005 forced banks to divest most noncommercial banking activities, such as mutual funds, insurance, pension, and...
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Cyprus; Detailed Assessments of Observance of Standards and Codes for Banking Supervision, Insurance Supervision, and Securities Regulation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
The Compliance of the Basel Core Principles welcomes the assessors’ recognition of the overall quality and effectiveness of Cyprus’s banking regulatory and supervisory framework in place, and the resulting high degree of compliance with the Basel Core Principles. Regulation has to...
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Denmark; Financial Sector Assessment Program: Technical Note: The Danish Mortgage Market: A Comparative Analysis
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This technical note presents a comparative analysis of the Danish Mortgage Market. It discusses the particularities of … the regulatory framework of the Danish mortgage system. The note compares and contrasts mortgage financing in Denmark and … evolutions, which could have potentially far-reaching consequences for the Danish mortgage system, are elaborated. The note also …
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An Investigation of Some Macro-Financial Linkages of Securitization
Long, Xin; Goswami, Mangal; Jobst, Andreas - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
Policy-makers have attributed the scale of the credit crisis and its profound impact on money markets (as well as financial sector stability) to the fast rise of securitization and the way it has arguably complicated both the conduct of monetary policy and the effect of interest rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263753
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The Housing Cycle in Emerging Middle Eastern Economies and its Macroeconomic Policy Implications
Beidas-Strom, Samya; Lian, Weicheng; Maseeh, Ashwaq - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
past two decades. It finds that (i) mortgage markets have experienced rapid development, which has led to lower private per …
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The Use of Mortgage Covered Bonds
Avesani, Renzo G.; Ribakova, Elina; Pascual, Antonio Garcia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
The rapid mortgage credit growth experienced in recent years in mature and emerging countries has raised some stability … mortgage covered bonds. From the issuer's perspective, these instruments have become an attractive funding source and a tool … mortgage portfolio. Our analysis also suggests that mortgage covered bonds could be of interest to other mature and emerging …
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Global Housing Cycles
Igan, Deniz; Loungani, Prakash - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
Housing cycles and their impact on the financial system and the macroeconomy have become the center of attention following the global financial crisis. This paper documents the characteristics of housing cycles in a large set of countries, and examines the determinants of house price movements....
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