IMF Staff Country Reports

Euro Area Policies: Financial System Stability Assessment

July 19, 2018

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Euro Area Policies: Financial System Stability Assessment, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2018) accessed November 24, 2024

Summary

Overall the resilience of large euro area banks has improved, but important vulnerabilities remain. Capital buffers are in aggregate sizeable relative to immediate threats, but some banks are especially vulnerable to credit risk and others to market risks, including a substantial rise in risk premia. The banking system as a whole has ample liquidity, against a backdrop of ECB support. At a structural level, low profitability is found in many banks across all business models, despite improving conjunctural conditions. The interconnectedness analysis shows that strong buffers are effective in dampening both vulnerabilities and onward transmission. Risks to financial stability relate mainly to tighter financial conditions, weaker growth, and policy and geopolitical uncertainties. The withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU (Brexit) could potentially disrupt financial market and services, and thus the wider economy. Also, policy reversals could hurt debt sustainability and test the cohesion of policy making in the union.

Subject: Asset and liability management, Bank resolution, Bank resolution framework, Banking, Collateral, Financial crises, Financial institutions, Liquidity, Nonperforming loans

Keywords: Bank crisis preparedness, Bank resolution, Bank resolution framework, Banking system, Cash flow, Central bank, Collateral, Compromise bank resolvability, CR, ECB banking supervision, Europe, Financial system, Funding cost, Global, Interest rate, ISCR, Liquidation tool, Liquidity, Liquidity operations, Monetary policy, National bank, Nonperforming loans, Resolution plan

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    86

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2018/226

  • Stock No:

    1EUREA2018003

  • ISBN:

    9781484369272

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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