and Central Asia region. It shows that banks in Europe and Central Asia are better capitalized, as measured by regulatory … capital ratios, than they were prior to the crisis. However, the increase in simple equity ratios for the same banks has been …

and summarizes the evolution in bank capital regulations, capitalization of banks, market discipline, and supervisory … particularly true for large banks, because they have more discretion in the computation of risk weights and are better able to …

Cross-border banking in emerging markets and developing economies has expanded across most World Bank regions and has … cross-border banking pose challenges for policy makers in home and host jurisdictions as well as for the groups themselves …