Chile: Financial System Stability Assessment

December 9, 2021

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Chile: Financial System Stability Assessment, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2021) accessed December 21, 2024

Summary

The financial system in Chile functions well overall within a sound regulatory framework. It features large and deep financial markets in a sector dominated by conglomerates, six systemic banks, and pension funds. The twin shocks of social unrest in late 2019 and COVID-19 were adeptly managed thanks to massive and well-coordinated supervisory and fiscal policy responses, as well as unprecedented liquidity support from the Central Bank of Chile (BCCh). Banks have remained profitable through the crisis, partially supported by central bank financing and government-guaranteed SME lending. The funded pension system that has been instrumental in market deepening is under threat due in part to a series of withdrawals. Congress has also authorized life annuity liquidations. A major reorganization of the financial regulatory authorities has been finalized, and Basel III will be implemented starting in December 2021.

Subject: Expenditure, Financial institutions, Financial Sector Assessment Program, Financial sector policy and analysis, Financial sector stability, International organization, Monetary policy, Mutual funds, Pension spending, Stress testing

Keywords: Bank funding dynamics, Bank resolution arrangement, Bank resolution mechanism, Bank solvency stress test result, Bank stress test scenario, Caribbean, Financial Sector Assessment Program, Financial sector stability, Global, IMF mission chief, Mutual funds, Pension spending, Stress testing

Publication Details

Pages:

111
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2021/262
Stock No:

1CHLEA2021006
ISBN:

9781616356958
ISSN:

1934-7685

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