credit growth is beginning to erode financial stability. The main potential threat to financial stability is indirect credit … risk arising from the large share of bank lending effectively denominated in foreign exchange. …

confirmed that credit risk remains high. The assessment suggests that work on the crisis contingency framework should be … facilitate access to European Central Bank refinancing. …

system faces challenges over the medium term from continued rapid credit growth, rising interest rates, and rigidities in …

Banking Supervision for Tunisia. The findings reveal that the Central Bank of Tunisia (Banque Centrale de Tunisi/BCT) monitors … the external auditors of the credit institutions have to submit at the close of each year, extracting information from …

This paper presents the Financial Sector Stability Assessment Update on the Russian Federation. Indicators of bank … soundness and performance are broadly favorable but credit risk poses a challenge over the medium term, and capitalization … should rise to support continued banking sector development. The system has weathered the global credit crunch that began in …

, and credit to the private sector has risen threefold. Loan classification, provisioning, and even capital remain uneven in …