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Financial Sector Assessment : MalaysiaMalaysia, as many of its Asian
 neighbors, experienced significant macro/financial distress
 in the late 1990s. The transformed and strengthened
 financial sector has been able to weather the recent global
 financial crisis well. Financial market intermediaries 
 reliance on cross-border and interbank funding remains
 limited. Banking institutions are well capitalized and are
 expected to be able to meet Basel three capital requirements
 comfortably by the 2019 implementation deadline. Asset
 quality has improved significantly over the last 5 years and
 banks are profitable, with low cost-to-income ratios
 compared to regional peers. The authorities have taken steps
 to monitor and mitigate the potential significant risks of
 recent rapid loan growth. The regulatory and supervisory
 regimes for banking, insurance and securities are well
 developed and exhibit a high degree of compliance with
 international standards. Government equity holdings in the
 financial sector, both direct and indirect, are extensive.
 Further development of the domestic Islamic financial system
 presents both opportunities and challenges.
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Financial Sector Assessment : KuwaitA joint International Monetary Fund
 (IMF)-World Bank financial sector assessment team visited
 Kuwait in early September 2003, at the request of the
 government of Kuwait and the central bank. This financial
 sector assessment report is based on analyses undertaken
 during that mission. The principal objective of the mission
 was to assist the authorities in evaluating the strengths,
 vulnerabilities, and key development opportunities in the
 financial system. The team sought to identify the measures
 that should be taken, both to avoid potentially
 destabilizing conditions and thereby reduce financial sector
 vulnerabilities, and to improve the foundation for a sound,
 efficient and deep financial sector that would contribute to
 economic development, particularly of the non-oil segment of
 the Kuwaiti economy. The mission also provided an assessment
 of the observance of international standards and codes in
 financial regulation and supervision covering three
 international standards and codes: the base core principles
 for effective banking supervision; the objectives and
 principles of securities regulation; and the anti-money
 laundering and combating the financing of terrorism
 standards. These standards assessments underpin the analysis
 and recommendations of this report.
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Slovenia : Pilot Diagnostic Review of Governance of the Insurance SectorThis review looks at the governance of
 the insurance sector in Slovenia, analyzing the legal
 framework and its enforcement and the adoption of corporate
 governance principles by firms. It is intended to provide
 policy makers and insurers in Slovenia, and other countries,
 with insight into existing corporate practices, and to offer
 a framework of good practices that can assist lawmakers in
 their efforts to strengthen governance in the insurance
 sector. The report may also contribute to the ongoing
 international debate on good corporate governance practices
 in insurance sector companies worldwide. It has three
 objectives: improving the description of good practices
 related to governance of insurance sectors; conducting a
 diagnostic review of Slovenian insurance governance against
 these benchmarks, and providing recommendations on ways of
 further improving the corporate governance of the Slovenian
 insurance sector. The review concludes with recommendations
 for auditing and risk evaluation, and advises that, although
 Slovenia's three finance regulators have served it well
 to date, the regulatory and supervisory structure for the
 finance sector is in need of more review before a joint
 working group could be established to implement the legal,
 organizational, media, and sequencing issues involved in
 creating an integrated regulatory agency.