. Epidemic exposure is associated with an increase in remote-access (online/mobile) banking and substitution from bank branch …

Central Bank (BDCB) and the structure of the financial sector of Brunei Darussalam are presented. Lastly, the paper discusses …

banks to form alliances with fintechs. Furthermore, we analyze whether such bank-fintech alliances affect the market … Officer. We evidence that markets react more strongly if digital banks rather than traditional banks announce a bank …-fintech alliance. Finally, we find that alliances are most often characterized by a product-related collaboration between the bank and …

survival of top executives (Presidents, CEOs and General Managers) to bank performance and the manager's local connections …, controlling for (observable and unobservable) bank and manager characteristics by exploiting longitudinal information on bank …-manager appointments. We measure the extent? of managers' local connections by the distance between the province of the bank's headquarters …

This paper analyzes the development of the banking sector in European transition countries. We find that, although bank … major players in the financial system of these countries. However, foreign bank presence and financial development in … than domestic banks. Furthermore, it appears that foreign and domestic bank performance tend to converge. …

quasi-exogenous increases in bank size in postwar Germany. I show that firms did not grow faster after their relationship …, but worked with riskier borrowers. Bank managers benefited through higher salaries and media attention. The paper presents …