This technical note assesses the reform of Spanish savings banks (SSBs). It provides a brief overview of the SSB …

The most recent decade has seen a growing presence of banks headquartered in advanced economies (AEs) expanding into … banking links to EMs-Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Spain. These countries were chosen because of their banks' diverse … Eastern European exposures resulted in extraordinary policy efforts to maintain bank lending), providing fertile ground for …

The paper studies risk mitigation associated with capital regulation, in a context where banks may choose tail risk … liability. Moreover, higher capital may have an unintended effect of enabling banks to take more tail risk without the fear of … pre-crisis bank behavior, and suggest implications for the optimal design of capital regulation. …

-year financial plan (2001–10) by Bank Negara Malaysia restructured the financial sector. Banks were well capitalized, household …

nonperforming loans. Stress tests indicate that banks are quite resilient to further adverse shocks, but they remain vulnerable to …

Although progress has been made in strengthening the Swiss economy, systemic risks posed by large banks as well as … and intervention of the Swiss National Bank (SNB) on strengthening financial sector stability, and stressed the need of a …