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This paper discusses key findings of the Financial System Stability Assessment on Cyprus. The assessment reveals that the banking system of Cyprus has managed to avoid the worst effects of the global financial crisis, but stress tests confirmed that credit risk remains high. The assessment suggests that work on the crisis contingency framework should be completed. Various European Union (EU)-wide and national initiatives are already under way, including strengthening deposit insurance, drafting guidelines for emergency liquidity assistance, and adopting a legal framework for covered bonds to facilitate access to European Central Bank refinancing.

Banks and Banking --- Finance: General --- Industries: Financial Services --- Banks --- Depository Institutions --- Micro Finance Institutions --- Mortgages --- Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation --- General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation --- Banking --- Finance --- Cooperative banks --- Stress testing --- Financial Sector Assessment Program --- Commercial banks --- Financial institutions --- Financial sector policy and analysis --- Loans --- Banks and banking --- Banks and banking, Cooperative --- Financial risk management --- Financial services industry --- Cyprus

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This paper presents the Financial System Stability Assessment Report on the Isle of Man (IOM). Financial sector regulation and supervision are generally of a high standard, and supervisory efforts are concentrated in those areas most relevant to the activities of financial institutions on the IOM. The Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) faces a conundrum because the major banks are subsidiaries of large international financial groups, to which they provide financing. The FSC is reconsidering to balance prudential requirements for liquidity and exposure to related parties against business needs that entail high exposures to the parent.

Economic policy -- Isle of Man. --- International finance. --- International Monetary Fund. --- Banks and Banking --- Finance: General --- Insurance --- Industries: Financial Services --- Banks --- Depository Institutions --- Micro Finance Institutions --- Mortgages --- Pension Funds --- Non-bank Financial Institutions --- Financial Instruments --- Institutional Investors --- Insurance Companies --- Actuarial Studies --- General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation --- Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation --- Finance --- Banking --- Insurance & actuarial studies --- Insurance companies --- Financial Sector Assessment Program --- Loans --- Financial institutions --- Financial services --- Commercial banks --- Banks and banking --- Financial services industry --- Isle of Man

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This paper examines the Insurance Regulation and Supervision for Cyprus’s Financial Sector Assessment Program. The domestic nonlife market is dominated by motor insurance which accounted for 58 percent of net premiums. All Cypriot business is reinsured with nondomiciled reinsurers. Health insurance is regulated as nonlife business when written as add-ons to accident and sickness or as life business when written with life policies. A number of professional bodies and self-regulatory industry associations complement the regulatory regime for the insurance industry.

Finance: General --- Insurance --- Industries: Financial Services --- Business and Financial --- Pension Funds --- Non-bank Financial Institutions --- Financial Instruments --- Institutional Investors --- Insurance Companies --- Actuarial Studies --- General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation --- Bankruptcy --- Liquidation --- Finance --- Insurance & actuarial studies --- Financial services law & regulation --- Insurance companies --- Solvency --- Insurance supervision --- Financial Sector Assessment Program --- Financial institutions --- Financial sector policy and analysis --- Financial regulation and supervision --- Debt --- Nonbank financial institutions --- Law and legislation --- Financial services industry --- Cyprus

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The IMF's 2009 Annual Report chronicles the response of the Fund's Executive Board and staff to the global financial crisis and other events during financial year 2009, which covers the period from May 1, 2008, through April 30, 2009. The print version of the Report is available in eight languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish), along with a CD-ROM (available in English only) that includes the Report text and ancillary materials, including the Fund's Financial Statements for FY2009.

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This paper provides a brief description of the IMF and its activities, focusing in particular on its technical assistance (TA) activities. The report then describes in greater detail the Japan Administered Account for Selected Fund Activities (JSA)—including its scope and objectives, the size and uses of the TA contribution, and assessments of its TA activities and scholarship programs—with a focus on fiscal year (FY) 2009. Japan has provided grant contributions to support IMF technical assistance to member countries since 1990. In 1997, the scope of the administered account was widened to allow for financing other IMF activities in Asia and the Pacific, carried out through the IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in Tokyo. Regular consultations are held between the IMF and the Japanese authorities; the most recent formal meeting took place in April 2009. The use of JSA resources is flexible. JSA funds can be used to cover the cost of short- and long-term TA experts and other costs associated with conducting seminars and workshops, such as room rental fees.

Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) --- Bank supervision --- Banking --- Banks and Banking --- Banks and banking --- Budget planning and preparation --- Budget Systems --- Budget --- Budgeting & financial management --- Budgeting --- Capital market --- Capital markets --- Corporate crime --- Crime --- Criminology --- Education --- Education: General --- Finance --- Finance, Public --- Finance: General --- Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation --- Financial markets --- Financial regulation and supervision --- Financial Sector Assessment Program --- Financial sector policy and analysis --- Financial services industry --- Financial services law & regulation --- General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data) --- General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation --- Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law --- Money laundering --- National Budget --- National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General --- Public finance & taxation --- Public Finance --- Public financial management (PFM) --- Revenue administration --- Revenue --- State supervision --- Tax administration and procedure --- Tax administration core functions --- Taxation --- Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General --- White-collar crime --- Japan