The Bank’s most recent Macro Financial Review (MFR) was released recently. As well as providing an in-depth view of financial developments and risks in all key sectors of the economy, the MFR also contains a number of interesting analytical boxes on topics such as the components of NFC debt, SME actions after a credit rejection, household financial vulnerability estimates, residential property price expectations, new indicators of systemic stress and financial conditions, CoCo bonds and reciprocity in macroprudential policy.
The key messages from this most recent MFR can be summarised as follows:
- Risks to the economic outlook are weighted to the downside and relate mostly to uncertainty in the external financial environment.
- While economic conditions are improving, public and private sector indebtedness remain high.
- Workout of impaired loans and disposal of non-performing loans in banking sector ongoing, domestic bank profitability remains weak.
- Mortgage regulations: Call for evidence which will inform review opens from 15 June to 10 August.
The full report can be downloaded here.