Before each quarterly projection, a group of Reserve Bank staff fans out across the country and talks to upwards of 40 businesses and business organisations to get an up-to-the-minute impression of what a small number of - hopefully - representative firms are experiencing.
Recently, we have conducted an in-house study based on simple indicators approach to assess possibility of domestic SIFIs in Pakistan; our initial assessment suggests that banks with the largest market share in terms of assets – are the most systemically important banks. These findings endorse the earlier held belief regarding the significance of asset size in Pakistan’s banking industry.