improvements of banks involved appears, on the whole, disappointing and still hard to create benefits for customers. The reason … process and, on the other hand, on motivation and turnover of individuals. Set in Italian banking industry, this paper … for the banking industry (e.g., competencies, competition, customer, disclosure, human resources, innovation, risk) and on …

concentration and profitability even when the largest banks are excluded from the sample, suggesting that the relationship between … concentration and profitability may act in a generalised structural way. In addition to very large banks, large banks and small … banks also appear to benefit from concentration, but with no clear advantages to lower-middle-sized banks. Analysis of the …

‘best practice’ corporate governance for banks. In view of a rapidly developing market with a slow pace of information … discipline bank management. It was, therefore timely for the central banks in the region to introduce a ‘best practice’ for the … highlighting important features of the codes of corporate governance established by central banks in the sample countries. In …

in banks (default rate, recovery rate and provisioning rate). We use a sample comprises a totality of Italian-based banks … rate, while the Audit committee enhances provisioning rate in banks. With reference to default rate, a total negative …

major players in the payments industry. Our study is structured on chapters that present the implications of SEPA on the … banking industry, the project’s consequences in respect to European corporate bodies and its effects on small and medium …

on banks. Banks have a particular position in that they can be a lender as well as an investor in a certain company …

. The study relies upon theoretical as well as applied research of corporate governance in Russian commercial banks … agency theory and implying outside investors’ control over banks through stock market, is found to bear limited relevance. We …

Central Bank in its pursuit of price stability. For example, banks have been able to easily find the wherewithal to extend … trends in excess reserves of commercial banks in Jamaica during the period 1998 to 2010 and the challenges encountered by the … major determinants of the excess reserves of commercial banks in Jamaica in the long-run and short-run are the reserve …