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Sri Lanka Financial System Stability Assessment: Update, including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the following topics: Banking Supervision and Payment Systems

This paper presents an update to the Financial System Stability Assessment on Sri Lanka. The paper discusses that despite a challenging macroeconomic environment characterized by a high fiscal deficit, inflationary pressures, and a widening current account, near-term risks to the financial system ap...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2007
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports
Subjects:
Credit
Asset Requirements
Capital Adequacy Requirements
Banks
Finance
Industries: Financial Services
Banks And Banking
Nonwage Labor Costs And Benefits
Mortgages
Money
Labor
Financial Risk Management
Credit Risk
Capital And Ownership Structure
Goodwill
Pensions
Banking
Financial Risk And Risk Management
Actuarial Studies
Financing Policy
Insurance
Depository Institutions
Insurance Companies
Commercial Banks
Institutional Investors
Private Pensions
Pension Funds
Monetary Economics
Financial Institutions
Financial Instruments
Value Of Firms
Micro Finance Institutions
Monetary Policy, Central Banking, And The Supply Of Money And Credit: General
Financial Institutions And Services: Government Policy And Regulation
Non-bank Financial Institutions
Financial Regulation And Supervision
Money And Monetary Policy
Financial Services Law & Regulation
Insurance & Actuarial Studies
Sri Lanka
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This paper presents an update to the Financial System Stability Assessment on Sri Lanka. The paper discusses that despite a challenging macroeconomic environment characterized by a high fiscal deficit, inflationary pressures, and a widening current account, near-term risks to the financial system appear manageable. Financial soundness indicators have improved; nonetheless, stress tests suggest that banks remain relatively less resilient to interest rate and liquidity shocks. Moreover, the system faces challenges over the medium term from continued rapid credit growth, rising interest rates, and rigidities in interbank markets
Physical Description:55 pages
ISBN:9781451823608

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