01912cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF016857 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781484394120 1934-7685 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department. United Kingdom : Financial Sector Assessment Program-Stress Testing the Banking Sector-Technical Note. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016. 1 online resource (91 pages) IMF Staff Country Reports <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper discusses how Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) stress test assesses the resilience of the banking sector as a whole rather than the capital adequacy of individual institutions. The FSAP approach to stress testing is essentially macroprudential: it focuses on resilience of the broader financial system to adverse macro-financial conditions rather than on resilience of individual banks to specific shocks. This test ensures consistency in macroeconomic scenarios and metrics across firms to facilitate the assessment of the banking system as a whole. The stress test analysis is intended to help country authorities to identify key sources of systemic risk in the banking sector and inform macroprudential policies to enhance its resilience to absorb shocks. Mode of access: Internet IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2016/163 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2016/163/002.2016.issue-163-en.xml IMF e-Library