Financial Sector Assessment Program

Countries in the IMF Financial Spotlight in 2019

IMFBlog2020-03-23T10:02:58-04:00January 16, 2019|

In 2019, the IMF will complete 14 assessments under the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP). Eight of this year’s assessments are mandatory: Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Italy, Poland, Singapore, and Switzerland. The other six are voluntary: Algeria, Bahamas, Kuwait, FYR Macedonia, Malta, and Thailand. […]

Countries in the IMF Financial Spotlight in 2018

IMFBlog2020-03-23T10:06:04-04:00January 31, 2018|

By IMF Blog

January 31, 2018

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Financial sector assessments are showing that countries and financial systems are adapting better methods to monitor financial vulnerabilities (photo: Ingram Publishing/Newscom).

The IMF in 2018 will complete ten assessments of countries’ financial systems, to identify risks and propose policies to strengthen their financial stability. Three of this year’s reviews will […]

Improving Financial Stability in China

IMFBlog2019-03-15T13:16:49-04:00December 6, 2017|

By Ratna Sahay and James P. Walsh

December 6, 2017

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A man walks past a bank branch in Beijing: China’s leaders have made financial stability one of their top priorities (photo: Stephen Shaver/UPI/Newscom).

China’s leaders have made financial stability one of their top priorities. Given the size and importance of the Chinese market, with the world’s largest […]

Blow, Bling and Bucks: IMF Work Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

IMFBlog2017-04-15T14:21:41-04:00June 27, 2011|

Drug traffickers, diamond smugglers, and terrorists’ financiers around the world have one thing in common: they abuse the financial system to “clean” the proceeds they have obtained from their illegal work, or to transfer funds to achieve their destructive aims. The former is known as money laundering and the latter as terrorist financing. The IMF has worked with countries to combat money laundering and terrorist financing for over 10 years. With the benefit of all this experience, we decided it was time to consider a new, risk-focused approach to add depth to the way we assess money laundering and terrorist financing.