financial system is still weak. The crisis has set back progress toward a strong, competitive banking system for the future. The … structured corrective action regime and a unified administration regime for all banks, with broad powers for the administrator …

cooperative banks in Cyprus. Credit risk appears as the main source of risk in the banking sector, with demand for real estate …Various indicators place Cyprus’s banking system soundness ahead of emerging countries but behind advanced economies …-based indicators, and stress tests. Cypriot commercial banks are weaker than their counterparts in Greece and also less stable than …

A survey of the financial systems of Caribbean countries reveals systems dominated by banks, with services widely …

The increased presence of foreign banks in a country's domestic banking system necessitates the development of … challenges which foreign banks bring to emerging market banking supervisors are also discussed. The paper also provides surveys … supervision, quality of home-country supervision, memoranda of understanding (MOUs), and "ringfencing" of banks. A number of …

. Major improvements in compliance with the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision and the implementation of …. Significant progress regarding the banking safety net and evaluation of antimoney laundering practices in Mexico are under way …

. Announcements of interest rate cuts, liquidity support, liability guarantees, and recapitalization were associated with a reduction … to reduce interest rates and bail out individual banks in an ad hoc manner had adverse repercussions, both domestically …