TY - BOOK ID - 84659213 TI - HEAT! A Bank Health Assessment Tool AU - Ong, Li. AU - Jeasakul, Phakawa. AU - Kwoh, Sarah. PY - 2013 SN - 1484330978 1484376463 1484302036 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Bank examination. KW - Banks and banking. KW - Agricultural banks KW - Banking KW - Banking industry KW - Commercial banks KW - Depository institutions KW - Finance KW - Financial institutions KW - Money KW - Bank auditing KW - Banks and banking KW - Auditing KW - Examinations KW - Banks and Banking KW - Finance: General KW - Industries: Financial Services KW - Banks KW - Depository Institutions KW - Micro Finance Institutions KW - Mortgages KW - General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation KW - Financial Institutions and Services: General KW - Bank soundness KW - Global systemically important banks KW - Nonperforming loans KW - Financial sector policy and analysis KW - Loans KW - Financial services industry KW - Spain UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84659213 AB - Developments during the global financial crisis have highlighted the importance of differentiating across financial systems and institutions. Assessments of financial stability have increasingly considered the characteristics of individual banks within a financial system, as well as those with significant international reach, to identify vulnerabilities and inform policy decisions. This paper proposes a simple measure of bank soundness, the Bank Health Index (BHI), to facilitate preliminary analyses of individual financial institutions relative to their peers. The evidence suggests that the BHI is useful for a first-pass identification of bank soundness conditions. Automated spreadsheet templates of the bank Health Assessment Tool (HEAT!) are provided for users with access to the BankScope, Bloomberg and/or SNL database(s). ER -