Global Financial Stability Report, October 2018 ― A Decade After the Global Financial Crisis: Are We Safer?

This report assesses key risks facing the global financial system and financial stability since the global financial crisis, as well as the global regulatory reform agenda over the past decade and whether the global financial ecosystem since the financial crisis has evolved for greater safety. It details fragilities in emerging and frontier markets, policies to safeguard financial stability, and progress toward regulatory reform and areas for consolidation or further progress, including what went wrong before the global financial crisis, assessment of the regulatory agenda, and the focus of regulatory efforts going forward. It includes a special discussion of international banking groups. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization of 185 Member Countries. It was established to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange arrangements; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries in order to help ease balance of payments adjustments.