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The report summarizes main conclusions, highlights key financial sector vulnerabilities and development challenges, and sets out policy recommendations. It covers background and macrofinancial context, risk assessment and stress testing, financial sector oversight including macroprudential and regulatory frameworks, and crisis management and resolution. It also addresses financial sector development topics such as state roles, SME finance access, payments and market infrastructures, capital markets, and green finance.","Public Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized  \nFOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY  \nECUADOR  \nFINANCIAL SECTOR ASSESSMENT  \nSeptember 2023  \nPrepared By  \nFinance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice and  \nLatin America and the Caribbean Regional Vice Presidency  \nA joint IMF and World Bank team conducted virtual and in-person missions to Ecuador in December 2022 and April 2023 to update the findings of the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) conducted in 2004.1 This report summarizes the main findings of the mission, identifies key financial sector vulnerabilities and developmental issues, and provides policy recommendations.  \n1 The team was comprised of Douglas Pearce (Mission Chief, WB), Caio Ferreira (Mission Chief, IMF), Federico Diaz Kalan (Deputy Mission Chief, WB), Mark Adams (Deputy Mission Chief, IMF), Leyla Castillo, Anderson Caputo Silva, Maria Teresa Chimienti, Eva Gutierrez, Oliver Masetti, Faruk Miguel, Pasquale Di Benedetta, Diego Sourrouille (WB staff), Antonio Velandia-Rubiano (WB external expert), Francisco Vazquez, Caroline Wu, Sergei Dodzin, Carolina Lopes-Quiles, Santiago Texidor Mora, Niels-Jakob Hansen (IMF staff), David Hoelscher, Luis Martin Auqui, and Jose Garcia Barroso (IMF external experts) . The FSAP team thanks Kimberly Celis Calderon (Ministry of Economy and Finance, Ecuador) for valuable support, and gratefully acknowledges the close cooperation and openness of the authorities and technical counterparts.  \nContents  \nFigures, Tables, and Boxes ................................................................................................................................................... 2  \nGlossary ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 3  \nExecutive Summary ................................................................................................................................................................. 5  \nI. Background .......................................................................................................................................................................... 11  \nA. Macrofinancial Context ............................................................................................................................................. 11  \nB. Development Challenges ......................................................................................................................................... 11  \nC. Financial System Structure and Recent Developments ................................................................................12  \nII. Risk Assessment ................................................................................................................................................................ 14  \nA. Vulnerabilities and Risks ........................................................................................................................................... 14  \nB. Stress Tests..................................................................................................................................................................... 14  \nIII. Financial Sector Oversight............................................................................................................................................ 17  \nA. Cross-cutting Issues ................................................................................................................................................... 17  \nB. Macroprudential Framework................................................................................................................................... 19  \nC. Banking Regulation and Supervision................................................................................................................... 19  \nD. 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