Financial Sector Assessment. Handbook

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The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank/The International. Monetary Fund. - 2005. - 448 р.Contents:. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Preface. Contributors. Chapter 1 Financial Sector Assessments: Overall Framework and Executive Summary. Chapter 2 Indicators of Financial Structure, Development, and Soundness. Chapter 3 Assessing Financial Stability. Chapter 4 Assessing Financial Structure and Financial Development. Chapter 5 Evaluating Financial Sector Supervision: Banking, Insurance, and Securities Markets. Chapter 6 Assessing the Supervision of Other Financial Intermediaries. Chapter 7 Rural and Microfinance Institutions: Regulatory and Supervisory Issues. Chapter 8 Assessing Financial System Integrity—Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism. Chapter 9 Assessing the Legal Infrastructure for Financial Systems. Chapter 10 Assessing Information and Governance Infrastructure. Chapter 11 Assessing Systemic Liquidity Infrastructure. Chapter 12 Sequencing Financial Sector Reforms. Appendix A Financial Sector Assessment Program—Objectives, Procedures, and Overall Framework. Appendix B Illustrative Data Questionnaires for Comprehensive Financial Sector Assessment. Appendix C Data Sources for Financial Sector Assessments. Appendix D Stress Testing. Appendix E Benchmarking and Decomposing Interest Rate Spreads and Margins. Appendix F Institutional Structure of Financial Regulation and Supervision. Appendix G Banking Resolution and Insolvency—Emerging World Bank and International Monetary Fund Guidelines. Appendix H Assessment of Pension Schemes from a Financial Sector Perspective. Boxes. Tables. Figures.