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Location: HQ1-BL-517 (AV CORE)
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The COVID-19 crisis is likely to raise the already high levels of nonperforming loans (NPLs) in sub-Saharan Africa. This may limit banks’ ability to support a post-pandemic recovery. In response, we propose a sequential strategy focused on managing, resolving, and preventing NPLs.
Based on Departmental Paper No 2021/014, written by: Luc Eyraud, Irina Bunda, Jehann Jack, Tarak Jardak, Rasmané Ouedraogo, Zhangrui Wang, and Torsten Wezel.
Jehann Jack African Department, IMF |
Tarak Jardak European Department, IMF |
Borrowing rates can become unresponsive or even decline as a result of more government borrowing and higher fiscal risks, when government default is very costly. This disconnect between borrowing rates and fiscal risk can be misleading to policy makers.
Ehsan Ebrahimy Institute of Capacity Development, IMF |
The presentation will describe the machine learning tool used for screening of cross-border financial flows to identify unusual patterns of transactions potentially related to illicit financial flows and will present findings on the direction of flows-outliers on a global level.
Based on work by: Mamoon Saeed, Maksym Ivanyna, Ruben Atoyan, Yang Liu.
Maksym Markevych Legal Department, IMF |
Since 2012, several central banks introduced negative interest rates to boost economic activity. We review the evidence on the effects of these policies on financial markets, banks, and the macroeconomy.
Marco Casiraghi Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF |
Gunes Kamber Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF |