public funds. To ensure adequate bank capitalization, a comprehensive review of banks' asset portfolios and collateral …

"Caprio and Honohan question the widespread belief that market discipline on banks cannot be effective in less … banking business in low-income countries; (2) the growing internationalization of these markets through the presence of … foreign banks, and through international trading of the debt and equity of locally-controlled nongovernment banks; and (3) the …

illustrate this variation. Using data for over 1,700 banks across 57 countries, they show that banks in countries where the … deposit insurer has the responsibility of intervening failed banks and the power to revoke membership in the deposit insurance … thus dampens the negative effect that deposit insurance has on banks' risk taking. "--World Bank web site …

(PCR) data were performed in collaboration with the central banks in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. The results of the …

This technical note discusses the current status of banking supervision and regulation in Montenegro in the context of …

The introduction of new much higher minimum capital requirements and the subsequent banking sector consolidation … created a platform for Nigerian banks to expand within the region and more globally. After capitalization, several Nigerian … banks found themselves with large amounts of capital while there was an environment of uncertainty about the situation in …