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Belgium: Financial System Stability Assessment, including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the following topics: Banking Supervision, Securities Regulation, Insurance Supervision and Regulation, and Securities Settlement Systems

March 1, 2006

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International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department "Belgium: Financial System Stability Assessment, including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the following topics: Banking Supervision, Securities Regulation, Insurance Supervision and Regulation, and Securities Settlement Systems", IMF Staff Country Reports 2006, 075 (2006), accessed November 21, 2024, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451803242.002

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This paper discusses key findings of the Financial System Stability Assessment (FSSA) and Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) on Banking Supervision, Securities Regulation, Insurance Supervision and Regulation, and Securities Settlement Systems for Belgium. The assessment reveals that overall, the financial system is generally sound, resilient to potential adverse shocks, and well supervised. Risks both on the international level and domestically appear well within the banks’ capacity to manage them and are well understood by the supervisor and overseer of the system.

Subject: Banking, Expenditure, Financial institutions, Financial sector policy and analysis, Financial sector stability, Insurance, Insurance companies, Pension spending, Stress testing

Keywords: Bancassurance group, Banking activity, CBFA cooperation, CR, Financial condition, Financial sector stability, Global, Holding company, Holdings of equities, Insurance, Insurance companies, ISCR, Loan portfolio, N.A, Pension spending, Return on equity, Savings ratio, Stress testing, Yield curve

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