Abstract. The article deals with the essence of the concept of financial stability of banking institutions. It determines the basic external and internal factors that affect the financial stability.  It also considers standards and key indicators of financial stability, which were approved by the NBU. The article tells about the main methods of analysis of financial stability in Ukraine and all over the world. The author draws our attention to the features of the various methods of analyzing financial situation that allow efficient analysis of the current state of the credit institution and make it possible to predict future changes in its activities. It provides the solid conclusions about the results of the conducted research.

Keywords. Financial stability, analysis methods, the exogenous factors, endogenous factors, indicators of financial stability, financial stability standard.