Financial Stability 1/2002

Rapportforside

Satisfactory financial stability

1. Summary

2. International developments and securities markets
    2.1 The international environment
    2.2 Securities markets in Norway

    Boxes:
    - Implications of the Enron bankruptcy
    - Japanese banks increasingly vulnerable

3. Macroeconomic developments and credit risk
    3.1 Macroeconomic developments
    3.2 Credit growth
    3.3 Credit risk associated with lending to households
    3.4 Credit risk associated with lending to the enterprise sector

    Boxes:
    - Household debt burden by category of household income
    - How vulnerable are financial institutions to macroeconomic changes?

4. Liquidity risk

    Box:
    - Counterparty exposure - monitoring systemic risk

5. Risk in payment systems
    5.1 International developments
    5.2 The Norwegian settlement system

    Box:
    - The liquidity trend in banks

6. Banks' financial position
    6.1 Lending growth and financial strength
    6.2 Banks' profits
    6.3 Future prospects

The cut-off date for this report was 21 May 2002.

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