This paper summarizes the latest update of the World Bank Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey. The paper explores … and summarizes the evolution in bank capital regulations, capitalization of banks, market discipline, and supervisory … crisis. Bank supervision became stricter and more complex compared with the pre-global financial crisis period. However …

The costs of financial intermediation have important consequences for financial development. Using bank-level data for … 160 countries during 2005-14, this paper analyzes the composition and sources of bank net interest margins. First, it uses … underlying bank-level, structural, macroeconomic, and institutional determinants of net interest margins. Finally, the paper uses …

This paper presents the main findings of the 2017 survey on national development banks that the World Bank conducted in … collaboration with the World Federation of Development Financing Institutions. Sixty-four development banks from different parts of … the world, mainly from middle-income countries, participated in the survey …

John J. McCloy, President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, spoke about the loans granted … by the Bank for European reconstruction and trade promotion. The Bank is currently in discussions about development … stability is necessary for trade growth. He concluded by saying that a prosperous world would be possible only if there was a …

John. J. McCloy, President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, discussed staff recruitment … and the development of Bank policies. Loan requirements emphasize productive projects of reconstruction and development … stability. The Bank is in a position to help facilitate financial reforms. McCloy has been in close contact with the American …

This paper revisits trends in bank privatization and analyzes their economic impact over the past 25 years. Building on … a novel data set of privatization events for 70 developed and developing countries, it shows that bank privatization … smaller in that the fraction of a bank's ownership relinquished during privatization events declined. The majority of …

Cross-border banking in emerging markets and developing economies has expanded across most World Bank regions and has … become large relative to some home and host economies. This paper analyzes recent trends of bank activities of financial …

Committee guidance on the governance of bank subsidiaries, and 2) a selection of recommendations from a past International …