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South Africa : the financial sector-sovereign nexus

Hesse, Heiko; Miyajima, Ken - 2022

Globally, financial institutions have increased their holdings of domestic sovereign debt, tightening the linkage between the health of the financial system and the level of sovereign debt, or the "financial sector-sovereign nexus," during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In South Africa, the...

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Post-crisis changes in global bank business models : a new taxonomy

Caparusso, John; Chen, Yingyuan; Dattels, Peter; Goel, Rohit - 2019

The Global Financial Crisis unleashed changes in the operating and regulatory environments for large international banks. This paper proposes a novel taxonomy to identify and track business model evolution for the 30 Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs). Drawing from banks' reporting, it...

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Taking stock of the financial sector policy response to COVID-19 around the world

Feyen, Erik; Gispert, Tatiana Alonso; Kliatskova, Tatsiana - 2020

This paper introduces a new global database and a policy classification framework that records the financial sector policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic across 154 jurisdictions. It documents that authorities around the world have taken a diverse array of measures to mitigate financial...

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Financial Sector Reform and Banking Crises in the Baltic Countries

International Monetary Fund - 1996

Financial sector reform in the Baltic countries is reviewed in light of the banking crises that emerged during the … reform period. It is argued that the crises had their roots in the structural deficiencies specific to planned economies and … systemic effects and a minor negative impact on output and incomes. The crises slowed down the financial reform process, but …

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Banking systems around the globe : do regulation and ownership affect performance and stability?

Barth, James R.; Caprio, Gerard; Levine, Ross - 2000

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The making of a continental financial system : lessons for Europe from early American history

Gaspar, Vítor - 2014

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Back to the future : the nature of regulatory capital requirements

Chami, Ralph; Cosimano, Thomas F.; Kopp, E.; Rochon, Céline - 2017

This paper compares the current regulatory capital requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) and the 10-percent leverage ratio, as proposed by the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. House of Representatives' Financial CHOICE Act (FCA). We find that the majority of U.S. banks would not qualify for an...

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Banking System Restructuring in Kazakhstan

Hoelscher, David S. - 1998

This paper reviews financial restructuring in Kazakhstan, and the condition of the financial system in the period following independence. The authorities’ efforts to redress financial sector weaknesses fall into two phases: The first phase addressed the immediate crises in the banking system...

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The Making of a Continental Financial System : Lessons for Europe from Early American History

Gaspar, Vitor - 2014

Alexander Hamilton was the first U.S. Treasury Secretary from 1789 to 1795. When he started, the Federal Government was in default. During his tenure, U.S. Treasuries became the ultimate safe asset. He successfully managed expectations, achieved debt service reduction, and stabilized financial...

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The role for deposit insurance funds in dealing with failing banks in the European Union

Arda, Atilla; Dobler, Marc - 2022

This paper argues that in the European Union (EU) deposit insurance funds are too difficult to use in bank resolution and too easy to use outside resolution. The paper proposes reforms in three areas for the effective management of bank failures of small and medium-sized banks in the European...

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