Banking in SSA has undergone very significant changes over the last two decades. Financial liberalization and related … reforms, upgrades in institutional and more recently the expansion of cross-border banking activities and the rapid … development of Pan-African banking groups are signaling greater financial integration and significant changes in the African …

This Technical Note discusses results of banking sector stress tests on Norway. The Norwegian banking sector is … challenges. The stress-testing exercise included a comprehensive analysis of solvency and liquidity risks in the banking sector …. The stress test results show that while the banking sector is highly resilient, it could experience challenges in case of …

Banking Supervision is examined. Aggregated assets reported by the offshore banking sector totaled about US$3.0 billion …’s aggregated assets, highlighting an important degree of concentration. Investment portfolios represent the bulk of banks’ assets …

to lend or sometimes weak investment demand in uncertain environments. We examine changes to central bank (CB) balance … balances, with ensuing reduction in the LTD. Finally, if governments meet their financing needs from the banking system …

theories of the sovereign default-banking crisis nexus …

transformation risk in the banking sector and promoting funding stability. The revised package has been issued for public …

This paper looks at the vulnerabilities stemming from banking sector linkages between countries and their macroeconomic … effects. It finds that credit risks (from a banking system’s claims on other countries) and funding risks (from a banking …