Brazil

This report provides a comprehensive description of the full process for supporting the new supervisory authority for closed pension funds in Brazil, The National Superintendence... Show More + for Pension Funds, supervisor of the closed pension fund system in Brazil, or PREVIC, in particular through the development of a revised approach to the risk-based supervision of closed pension funds. This report documents the first-funded World Bank project which, in conjunction with PREVIC, the supervisor of the closed pension fund system in Brazil (established in January 2010), has sought to provide guidance to implement a risk based supervision (RBS) appropriate to Brazilian environment, drawing on international experience. The project ran from January 2010 to March 2012. The key outputs of the project were specified as: i) an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the current supervisory benchmarking against best practices in RBS around the world; ii) a roadmap for the implementation of RBS under the circumstances prevailing in the industry; iii) proposals for regulations on selected critical elements for the implementation of RBS framework; and iv) training to supervisors and senior executives of closed pension funds about the main challenges of introducing RBS. Show Less -

Understanding the industry structure of banking services in Brazil is an important task both for the financial community at large and for country specialists. The Brazilian... Show More + financial system is the largest and most sophisticated in Latin America. This study is organized into five sections after the introduction, in line with the main analytical building blocks, and complemented by appendices that describe methodological aspects in more detail. Section 2 presents some stylized facts on the Brazilian banking system and compares it to a peer group of countries. Section 3 describes and presents the results of the industrial organization perspective (indirect approach). Section 4 presents the methodology and results -- including sensitivity analysis -- of the direct approach. Section 5 identifies and discusses the characteristics and main drivers of revenues, costs and risks by market segment, while Section 6 concludes and presents policy implications. Show Less -