Observance of Standards and Codes on Banking Supervision, and Payment Systems. TTO’s financial system is relatively large and … with Basel Core Principles indicate that the banking system is well capitalized and profitable, but is vulnerable to the …

The capacity of the Saudi Arabian banking sector to respond to macroeconomic shocks has been considerably strengthened … Banking Supervision, and it makes no differentiation between conventional and Sharia-compliant banking arrangements. …

Improved liquidity and capital adequacy have increased the Uruguayan banking system’s capacity to withstand shocks …

interest rates and banking risk is more complex. Ultimately, it depends on how much skin in the game banks have. The central … message of the paper is broadly complementary to those in the recent MCM board paper “Central Banking Lessons from the …

procyclicality of bank credit dynamics to the private sector and contain systemic risk. Reserve requirements, in particular, have … new cross-country evidence on how they influence real private bank credit growth. Our results show that these instruments …

which commercial bank holdings of excess liquidity exceed levels required for precautionary purposes. It proposes a …

This paper proposes a stylized sequencing of banking supervision and bank restructuring measures designed to complement … because the initial cost of bank restructuring can be offset, partly, through the budgetary effects of improved enterprise …

credit growth experienced by these countries. We find that, on average, both bank capitalization and lending activities in … Latin America increased after Basel. Consequently, Basel did not seem to lead to an overall credit decline. However, we do … Basel II might cause greater procyclicality of credit. …

would be vulnerable to a deterioration in credit quality. The banking sector needs to play a more effective role in … weakened the analysis. Stress tests suggest that the banking system is resilient to a range of single-risk factor shocks, but …

major vulnerabilities for the banking system as a whole. Since the 2004 Financial Sector Assessment Program, the National … Bank of Moldova (NBM) has made progress in identifying bank owners, an issue then flagged as a major vulnerability, but …