FRANKFURT, June 30 (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank's links to the world's largest lenders make it a bigger potentialrisk to the wider financial system than any other global bank,the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday.
The IMF compared possible threats to financial stabilitystemming from globally systemically important banks, known as"G-SIBs", in a review of Germany's banking and insurance sector.
"Among the G-SIBs, Deutsche Bank appears to be the mostimportant net contributor to systemic risks, followed by HSBC and Credit Suisse," the fund said.
Global regulators have tried to make such banks more robustfollowing the financial crisis to limit the impact of a bankcollapse such as the implosion of U.S. firm Lehman Brothers.
"The relative importance of Deutsche Bank underscores theimportance of risk management, intense supervision of G-SIBs andthe close monitoring of their cross-border exposures," the IMFsaid, adding it was also important to quickly put in placemeasures for winding down troubled banks.
Germany's largest lender declined to comment on the report.
Its shares fell by nearly 5 percent earlier on Thursdayafter the U.S. Federal Reserve said it was one of only twolenders to have failed an annual test of financial resilience inhypothetical stress scenarios. (Reporting by Jonathan Gould; Editing by Alexander Smith)