Financial Stability Reports
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What is the Role of a Financial Stability Report?
 Financial regulators and central banks in over 60 countries publish Financial Stability Reports about the health of their banking, financial and payments systems. These are a rich source of information on the structure of financial systems, recent trends in banking and finance, and the impact of the global economy on local markets. For scholars and students, FSRs can be a valuable tool in understanding developments in a banking system over time or allow them to make comparisons across financial markets. For policy-makers, FSRs are a platform to explain their concerns about the financial system to a wider audience, to set down benchmarks for tracking risk in a country, and to present new approaches to regulating the financial system. FSRs are a window into this complex world. Read more
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Country Reports
The latest Financial Stability Reports from 60 countries are available here.
This section also contains the most recent IMF country reports and financial sector
assessments. These reports help the reader better understand the complex trends
and policy actions that strongly affect financial stability in each country. Read more |
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Rule of Law Index (RLI)
The strength of sovereign institutions is vital for attracting and maintaining foreign and domestic capital alike. Fragile institutions coupled with faulty fundamentals present a recipe for volatile growth or excessively deep recessions. CFS introduces a powerful web-based educational tool to evaluate the “Rule of Law” across countries. Read More
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Global Perspectives
Two international bodies, the IMF and BIS, publish regular assessments of the
global economy and financial system. These offer a high-level view of recent trends
and key issues, like how quickly the global economy will recover from the recent
crisis and how global capital flows are shaping the new economy. Read more
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