Italy: Technical Note on Stress Testing The Banking Sector

December 6, 2013

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Italy: Technical Note on Stress Testing The Banking Sector, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

This Technical Note elaborates the recommendations made in the Financial Sector Assessment Program for Italy in the areas of contingency planning, crisis management, and bank resolution. The note sets out a brief overview of the impact of the global financial crisis in Italy and how the authorities handled the crisis. It analyzes the institutional framework and domestic and cross-border coordination arrangements. The supervisory approach to intervene with potential problem banks at an early stage is examined. The note also covers crisis management tools, including official financial support measures, the resolution framework, and the deposit guarantee framework.

Subject: Banking, Basel III, Capital adequacy requirements, Credit risk, Financial institutions, Financial regulation and supervision, Financial sector policy and analysis, Loans, Stress testing

Keywords: Asset quality review, Bank, Banking system, Basel III, BI result, Capital adequacy requirements, Capital ratio, Center, Central bank, Covered bond, CR, Credit risk, Credit risk, Europe, Global, Interest rate, ISCR, Loan, Loans, Stress testing

Publication Details

Pages:

52
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2013/349
Stock No:

1ITAEA2013008
ISBN:

9781475514445
ISSN:

1934-7685

Notes

These documents have been produced in the context of the recent Italy FSAP as background documents to the Financial System Stability Assessment (FSSA) report that was discussed by the Executive Board on September 20, 2013 and published shortly thereafter (the FSSA is available here).

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