The IMF's financial surveillance in Europe - experiences with FSAPs and their links with Article IV consultations

Cross-border financial integration has increased the need to make suitable multilateral arrangements for global financial cooperation and oversight - these include more intense and more effective financial sector surveillance by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The financial sector has a crucial role to play in addressing today's global health emergency, and it is important that it remains sufficiently resilient to facilitate the prompt return to more orderly economic conditions worldwide.