Samoa: Financial Sector Assessment Program-Banking Supervision and Regulation-Technical Note

August 7, 2015

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Samoa: Financial Sector Assessment Program-Banking Supervision and Regulation-Technical Note, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

This Technical Note discusses the key findings and recommendations of assessment of Banking Supervision and Regulation for Samoa. Little progress has been achieved toward implementing the recommendations of the 2007 Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision assessment. Initiatives by the Central Bank of Samoa to deal with weaknesses identified in supervision and regulation of domestic banks in 2007 were disrupted by a series of natural disasters and the use of limited supervisory resources on other priorities. Progress was achieved, however, in issues related to Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism, with Samoa upgraded to a “normal reporting" regime by the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering in 2014, from its previous status of "enhanced reporting."

Subject: Bank supervision, Basel Core Principles, Commercial banks, Financial institutions, Financial regulation and supervision, Foreign banks, International organization, Monetary policy, Operational risk

Keywords: Asset quality, Australia and New Zealand, Bank asset, Bank portfolio, Bank supervision, Bank vulnerability, Bank's liquidity profile, Basel Core Principles, Commercial banks, Foreign banks, Operational risk

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21
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2015/230
Stock No:

1WSMEA2015004
ISBN:

9781513502885
ISSN:

1934-7685

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