Global Financial Stability

Monitoring Global Financial Stability

IMFBlog2019-08-27T09:50:01-04:00August 26, 2019|

By Tobias Adrian, Dong He, Nellie Liang, and Fabio Natalucci

“It’s awful. Why did nobody see it coming?” asked Queen Elizabeth II in November 2008 during a visit to the London School of Economics, wondering why nobody had predicted the Global Financial Crisis. […]

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Let Bank Supervisors Do Their Jobs

IMFBlog2019-02-14T11:49:12-05:00February 13, 2019|

By Tobias Adrian and Aditya Narain

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Healthy banking sector. Healthy economy. So goes the thinking. Banks play a vital role in economic life—whether for individual consumers, or more broadly across an entire economy—and a strong and stable banking system is a matter of public concern. […]

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Global Financial Stability: What’s Still To Be Done?

IMFBlog2017-04-15T14:10:24-04:00April 18, 2012|

The quest for lasting financial stability is still fraught with risks. The latest Global Financial Stability Report has two key messages: policy actions have brought gains to global financial stability since our September report; but current policy efforts are not enough to achieve lasting stability, both in Europe and some other advanced economies, in particular the United States and Japan.