On 5 December 1925, the ‘Portuguese Bank Note Bubble’ burst. The Lisbon daily newspaper, O Século (The Century … English security printing company Waterlow and Sons that he was a representative of the Bank of Portugal, and created his own … bank through which he concealed over £3m in counterfeit money.[...] …

two similar-sized banks operating in the Netherlands in the 1920s: the Amsterdamsche Bank and the Rotterdamsche … Bankvereeniging. Whilst the first escaped the crisis relatively unscathed, the second required assistance from the Nederlandsche Bank …, the Dutch central bank. A new and detailed narrative of one episode of the crisis using as yet unused primary sources is …

, centralbanks have made extensive use of both new and existing toolsfor supplying central bank money to financial institutions …

Bank supervisors have long recognized two types of shortcomingsin the Basle Accord’s risk-based capital (RBC …)framework. First, the regulatory measures of “capital” maynot represent a bank’s true capacity to absorb unexpectedlosses. Deficiencies …

, researchersand regulatory agencies assessing the effects of bank mergerson competition will examine the degree to whichdeposits in a …In the view of most policymakers and economists,competition in retail banking takes place in localmarkets covering a …