This paper takes stock of the current state of banking systems across Sub-Saharan Africa and discusses recent … developments including innovations that might help Africa leapfrog more traditional banking models. Using an array of different … data, the paper documents that African banking systems are shallow but stable. African banks are well capitalized and over …

This paper discusses Islamic banking products and interprets them in the context of financial intermediation theory …

of Kenya's banking system, using aggregate, bank-level, and survey data. Banks' asset quality and liquidity positions …