regulatory approval of new internal market risk models under Basel 2.5 has exerted strong pressure on global banks. The issues …Purpose – This paper, based on case-studies with five universal banks from Europe and North America, aims to … Committee implementing a range of capital charges for market risk to promote “safer” banking in times of financial crisis. This …

envelopment analysis method is used to compute the efficiency of individual banks. Then bootstrap regressions are used to examine …. Findings -It was found that greater freedom to start new businesses tend to impede the efficiency of banks operating in the … Malaysian banking sector. The results indicate that restrictions on the activities of which banks could undertake exert negative …

Purpose – There is an emerging consensus that systemically important banks should face stricter regulations and … individual banks. The purpose of this paper is to review the proposed measures of systemic importance from the research community … banks, and to evaluate how useful proposed measures of the systemic importance of financial institutions will be to …

total of 25 banks operating in Nigeria. A multivariate constant coefficient regression model is adopted as the estimation … and 2008 were exacerbated by the inability of banks to optimally use their huge asset capacity to enhance their earnings … profiles. It shows that excess liquidity syndrome and relatively huge capital bases fueled reckless lending by banks; and that …

pharmaceutical industry. Originality/value – The global banking crisis led to calls for banks to maintain lending to small- and …, retail banks are utilities and should be regulated as such. …

besets every market place and simply reasserts that ex ante contractual loss allocation agreed between commercial parties …