Contents

Introduction and summary

FINANCIAL STABILITY ANALYSIS

The financial sector
The significance of financial institutions to financial stability
Nordic groups and Danish banking institutions
Risk factors facing Danish banking institutions
Mortgage-credit institutes
Pension companies

The corporate sector and the households
The significance of the corporate sector and the households to financial stability
Corporate sector
Households

Financial Markets
The significance of financial markets to financial stability
The equity markets
Government-bond markets
Credit spreads in Europe and the USA
Interest-rate expectations derived from option prices

Framework conditions for the financial system
Financial stability and the framework for the financial system
The single financial market
Credit institutions
Securities markets
Payment and settlement systems

ISSUES RELATED TO FINANCIAL STABILITY

Advanced approaches to calculation of capital Requirements under Basel II
Introduction of new capital-adequacy rules in Denmark
Theoretical background to the credit institutions' capital requirements
Calculation of the capital requirement using IRB approaches
Quantification

Banks' liquidity
Introduction
Banks' liquidity risk management
Liquidity supervision
Data for banks' liquidity

Protection of settlement in danish payment systems
Introduction
Protecting settlement in multilateral netting systems
Protecting settlement in the Sumclearing
The banking institutions' liquidity reserves

Glossary of financial terms

 

Boxes
  1. Categories applied
  2. New accounting rules
  3. Breakdown of return on equity
  4. Loans for financial investments
  5. Calculation of banking institutions' credit risk on their lending portfolios
  6. Macro stress test of the Danish banking sector
  7. Model to estimate the risk of companies failing
  8. Losses on corporate lending
  9. Danish agriculture
  10. Options and implied volatility
  11. A risk index for euro-denominated assets
  12. IRB formula
  13. Data basis
  14. The liquidity requirement in the Danish Financial Business Act, section 152
  15. The recommendations of the Basel committee for the banks' liquidity management
  16. Multilateral net settlement systems
  17. Collateral pools
  18. Pros and cons of settling an insolvent banking institution's retail payments
  19. Method for assessment of banking institutions' contingency liquidity measures
 
FINANCIAL STABILITY 2006

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Datagraf Auning A/S
ISSN 1602-057X
ISSN (Online) 1602-0588
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