TY  - BOOK
ED  - The World Bank
ED  - World Bank.
ED  - International Monetary Fund.
TI  - Financial sector assessment: a handbook 
SN  - 0821364324
U1  - 332.1 / 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - World Bank and International Monetary Fund
KW  - Financial services industry
KW  - State supervision
KW  - Banks and banking
KW  - Securities industry
KW  - Insurance
KW  - Financial crises
KW  - Risk assessment
N1  - "September 2005."; Includes bibliographical references; Financial sector assessment: Overall framework and executive suammary. -- indicators of financial structure, development, and soundness. -- Assessing financial stability. -- Assessing financial structure and financial development. -- Evaluating financial sector supervision: banking, insurance, and securites merkets. -- Assessing the supervision of other financial intermediaries. -- Rural and microfinance institutions: regulatory and supervisory issues. -- Assessing financial system integrity-Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism. -- Assessing the legal infrastructure for financial systems. -- Assessing information and governance infrastructure. -- Assessing systemic liquidity infrastucture. -- Sequencing financial sector reforms
N2  - In the wake of the financial crises of the late 1990s, there was a surge of interest in the systematic assessment of financial sectors, with a view to identifying vulnerabilities and evaluating the sector's developmental needs. Consequently, there has been an increased demand from financial sector authorities in many countries for information on key issues and sound practices in the assessment of financial systems and the appropriate design of policy responses
ER  -