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Saudi Arabia: Financial Sector Assessment Program-Detailed Assessment of Observance-Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision

September 4, 2024

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International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department "Saudi Arabia: Financial Sector Assessment Program-Detailed Assessment of Observance-Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision", IMF Staff Country Reports 2024, 282 (2024), accessed December 21, 2024, https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400288111.002

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This paper discusses Detailed Assessment of Observance of the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision for the Saudi Arabia Financial Sector Assessment Program. Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) has progressively updated its regulations and continued focus on this process will be important. SAMA’s responsibility for banking supervision is clearly set out in the law, although without clearly establishing the promotion of safety and soundness of banks and the banking system as an explicit or primary mandate. There is room to strengthen SAMA’s operational independence, accountability framework, transparency, and legal protection. Strengthening powers and updating regulations, along with developing internal guidelines, will help strengthen processes for licensing, transfer of significant ownership and controlling interest, and major acquisitions by banks. SAMA’s well-established risk-based approach would benefit from a review of the scope of application of supervisory oversight, tools, and reporting. Prudential requirements mostly apply (appropriately) at both a solo and consolidated level, but monitoring is in practice only at the domestic level.

Subject: Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Bank supervision, Credit risk, Crime, Financial regulation and supervision, Market risk, Operational risk

Keywords: Adequacy ASSESSMENT process, Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Bank supervision, Banking control law, Banking supervision department, Counter financing, Credit risk, Global, IMF-World Bank Financial Sector Assessment Program, Market risk, Operational risk

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