Global Financial Stability Report
The Global Financial Stability Report provides an assessment of the global financial system and markets, and addresses emerging market financing in a global context. It focuses on current market conditions, highlighting systemic issues that could pose a risk to financial stability and sustained market access by emerging market borrowers. The Report draws out the financial ramifications of economic imbalances highlighted by the IMF's World Economic Outlook. It contains, as special features, analytical chapters or essays on structural or systemic issues relevant to international financial stability.
2010
IMF Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR) -- Sovereigns, Funding, and Systemic Liquidity; October 2010 -- Contents
October 29, 2010
Description: October 2010: The global financial system is still in a period of significant uncertainty and remains the Achilles’ heel of the economic recovery. Although the ongoing recovery is expected to result in a gradual strengthening of balance sheets, progress toward financial stability has experienced a setback since the April 2010 GFSR. The current report highlights how risks have changed over the last six months, traces the sources and channels of financial distress with an emphasis on sovereign risk, and provides a discussion of policy proposals under consideration to mend the global financial system.
IMF Global Financial Stability Report -- Meeting New Challenges to Stability and Building a Safer System -- April 2010; Contents
April 12, 2010
2009
IMF Global Financial Stability Report -- Navigating the Financial Challenges Ahead -- October 2009 -- Contents
September 30, 2009
Description: This GFSR chronicles the evolution of the path toward reestablishing sound credit intermediation and the near-term risks that could interrupt its restoration, including the rising burden of sovereign financing. The report addresses how to restart securitization markets and the pitfalls if done improperly. The effectiveness of unconventional public sector interventions and the principles for disengagement are discussed. The report also discusses the design of medium-term policies that aim to reshape the financial system to make it more resilient and stable.
IMF Global Financial Stability Report -- Responding to the Financial Crisis and Measuring Systemic Risks -- April 2009 -- Contents
April 21, 2009
2008
IMF Global Financial Stability Report -- Financial Stress and Deleveraging: Macro-Financial Implications and Policy -- October 2008 -- Contents
October 7, 2008
IMF Global Financial Stability Report -- Containing Systemic Risks and Restoring Financial Soundness -- April 2008 -- Contents
April 8, 2008
2007
IMF Global Financial Stability Report -- Financial Market Turbulence: Causes, Consequences, and Policies, October 2007 -- Contents
September 24, 2007
IMF Global Financial Stability Report: Market Developments and Issues, April 2007 -- Contents
April 10, 2007
2006
Global Financial Stability Report: Market Developments and Issues, September 2006 -- Contents
September 12, 2006
Description: This particular issue draws, in part, on a series of discussions with commercial and investment banks, securities firms, asset management companies, hedge funds, insurance companies, pension funds, stock and futures exchanges, credit rating agencies, and academic researchers, as well as regulatory and other public authorities in major financial centers and countries. The report reflects information available up to July 14, 2006.
Global Financial Stability Report: Market Developments and Issues, April 2006 -- Contents
April 6, 2006
Description: This particular issue draws, in part, on a series of informal discussions with commercial and investment banks, securities firms, asset management companies, hedge funds, insurance companies, pension funds, stock and futures exchanges, and credit rating agencies, as well as regulatory authorities and academic researchers in many major financial centers and countries. The report reflects information available up to February 10, 2006.