The Global Financial Crisis unleashed changes in the operating and regulatory environments for large international … business and geographic orientation, and the funding models and legal entity structures of international operations. G …-SIBs have adjusted their business models, especially by reducing market intensity. While G-SIBs have maintained international …

We explore the global footprint of Chinese banks and compare it with that of other bank nationalities. Chinese banks …). Their global reach resembles that of banks from advanced economies (AEs). We take a nationality approach as international … across all bank nationalities, we find that larger distances deter cross-border bank lending to EMDEs more than to AEs. For …

This paper assembles a bank-level dataset covering the operations of 38 international banks from eight industrial … regions. The paper also finds a substantial home bias in the international allocation of bank assets, relative to the results … substantial, albeit largely unexploited by current bank expansion strategies. These results suggest that international …

identifies some key patterns of cross-border investment in bank subsidiaries by key banking groups in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …

This paper documents global trends in bank activity, consolidation, internationalization, and financial firm … and internationalization exhibit uneven patterns across world regions. Trends in consolidation and conglomeration indicate … concentrated banking systems. We outline research directions aimed at explaining why bank consolidation and conglomeration do not …

This paper introduces a comprehensive database on bank ownership for 137 countries over 1995-2009, and reviews foreign … bank behavior and impact. It documents substantial increases in foreign bank presence, with many more home and host … foreign bank presence negatively related with domestic credit creation. During the global crisis foreign banks reduced …