distinct for Canada. The Bank of Canada (BOC) has issued a Guideline that defines the criteria for identifying FMIs …

initiatives of relevance to fintech. The Central Bank has an Innovation Hub that provides a single point of contact for … Central Bank should further intensify its efforts to monitor developments on crypto-assets through systematic data collection …

This paper presents a technical note on bank stress testing and climate risks analysis in Maldives. Although the … possible unraveling of the sovereign-bank nexus. Banks' nonperforming loans (NPL) ratios are projected to increase slightly in …

banking sector in West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). The decision to focus on the AML/CFT supervision of the … WAEMU banking sector was based on the remit of the regional authorities; the importance to the regional economy of a well …-integrated and well-functioning banking sector; and the results of money laundering and terrorist financing national risk assessments …

German bank profitability is low by international standards. Although German banks rank more favorably in risk … the least profitable in Europe. Several factors affect bank profitability, including a complex tiered industry structure … with barriers to entry and an explicit mandate of a large part of the banking system - cooperative and savings banks - to …

economies, dominated by banks. The total assets of the system amount to 126 percent of GDP. However, bank credit is just over 50 … adults having formal accounts. Non-bank financial institutions and capital markets-especially bond markets-are substantially …

financial crisis, waning confidence, and euro area recession. …