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Greece: Financial System Stability Assessment, including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the following topics, Banking Supervision, Insurance Supervision, Securities Regulation, and Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism

January 6, 2006

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International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department "Greece: Financial System Stability Assessment, including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the following topics, Banking Supervision, Insurance Supervision, Securities Regulation, and Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism", IMF Staff Country Reports 2006, 006 (2006), accessed November 23, 2024, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451816259.002

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This paper discusses key findings of the Financial System Stability Assessment on Banking Supervision, Insurance Supervison, Securities Regulation, and Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism for Greece. The Greek financial sector appears largely sound and resilient to potential adverse shocks. The banking system is well capitalized and profitable, with adequate liquidity, but faces challenges arising from the recent rapid credit growth that increases bank exposure to unfamiliar credit risks. Strategic and medium-term challenges include addressing legal and institutional impediments to improving competitiveness and developing new, cost-efficient sources of funding.

Subject: Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Banking, Commercial banks, Credit, Crime, Financial institutions, Insurance companies, Loans, Money, Pension spending

Keywords: Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Bank, Bank liquidity, Bank resolution, Bank risk, Bank supervision framework, Banking system, Commercial bank, Commercial banks, CR, Credit, Europe, Insurance companies, Insurance fund, ISCR, Liquidity position, Loans, Market capitalization, Nominal interest rate, Risk

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