Stable banking is essential to monetary policy
Financial stability means that banking – important banks, savings and loan associations, investment...

Countercyclical capital buffer
The countercyclical capital buffer is intended to protect the banking sector against losses that...

Macroprudential policy tools
The macroprudential tools available to Eesti Pank can be divided into three groups. Moral...

Crisis management
Failures in the financial system may occur unexpectedly and rapidly pass on to other markets and...

Other systemically important institutions buffer
The aim of the other systemically important institutions buffer is to increase the resilience of...

Systemic risk buffer
The aim of the systemic risk buffer is to avoid or minimise systemic risks that could have a serious...

Eesti Pank’s role in safeguarding financial stability
Financial stability means the smooth functioning of financial intermediation under both normal and...

Questions and answers about the asset purchase programmes of the euro area central banks
What is the aim of the programme? The expanded asset purchase programme (APP) is designed to...

Risk weight floor for mortgage loans
Banks that have adopted the Internal Ratings Based (IRB) approach must use a risk weight of at least...

Eesti Pank's priorities among core operations
Participation in decision-making in the Eurosystem and implementation of decisions As a central...

The Structure of the Estonian Financial Sector
The Structure of the Estonian Financial Sector discusses factors that affect the architecture and...

Cooperation
Domestic cooperation Eesti Pank works with the Ministry of Finance and the Estonian Financial...

Macroprudential policy
Macroprudential policy covers systemic risk analysis and assessment, and the deployment of measures...

Financial Stability Department
conducts macro-prudential policy by analysing the functioning of the financial sector,...

Nordic-Baltic partnership
The Estonian financial system is closely related to those of the Nordic and Baltic countries and so...

Single banking supervision in Europe
On 4 November 2014 Europe’s Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) for banks started up, and the...

Analysis and assessment of financial stability
Financial stability analysis at Eesti Pank is a two-stage process. Fundamental analysis of the...

Requirements for housing loans
The requirements regulating the issuing of housing loans are intended to strengthen the resilience...

Participation in the ESRB
The European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) is as an independent body of the European Union responsible...