The crisis in Europe has underscored the vulnerability of European bank funding models compared to international peers …. This paper studies the drivers behind this fragility and examines the future of bank funding, primarily wholesale, in … possible policy options and bank actions to enhance European bank funding models’ robustness …

Banks will want to influence the bank regulator to favor their interests, and they typically have the means to do so …

governance. This form of oversight is the decision-making responsibility through which an internal body of the central bank …-the Oversight Board-ensures that the central bank is well-managed. First, the paper will contextualize the role of Board oversight … into the broader legal structure for central bank governance by considering this form of oversight as one of the core …

Foreign bank lending has stopped growing since the global financial crisis. Changes in banks' business models, balance …

This paper examines the association between the default risk of foreign bank subsidiaries in developing countries and … parents. Host country bank regulations also influence the extent to which shocks to the parents affect the subsidiaries … restrictions on bank activities …

implementing a number of reforms, aimed among others at speeding up insolvency and enforcement proceedings, strengthening bank … corporate governance, cleaning up balance sheets, and facilitating bank consolidation. This paper examines the Italian banking … system's NPL problem, which ties up capital, weighing on bank profitability and authorities' economic reforms. It argues for …