The paper analyses the swift growth of bank loans granted to the nongovernmental sector with a special attention on the case of Romania, concluding that it creates several perils for the macroeconomic and financial stability.

The construction of an Aggregate Financial Stability Index represents one of the methods used for assessing the level and dynamics of financial sector stability.

The scope of this article is to underline the overall economic impact of Single Euro Payments Area adoption upon the 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...

Monetary policy is one of the most sensitive problems in the modern financial systems. Money production of central banks and commercial banks generates a lot of problems in the prices mechanism, structure of production and is the major source of error in entrepreneurial decision. This paper...

The paper analyses the effects of global financial crisis and presents some arguments that can contribute to mitigating the effects of economic and financial crisis, and therefore to maintaining the important role that the credit you have in supporting these efforts.

The global coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has triggered an unprecedented crisis, creating social, political, economic and financial challenges for both Europe and the rest of the world. Faced with all these challenges, governments have implemented ambitious measures to support companies and...

Negative interest rates, as an instrument of monetary policy, are regarded by the central authorities as a stimulant for the growth of real economy through: decrease of lending costs, increase of consumption, decrease of volatility and so on. However this policy has a negative influence within...

Bank failure is the result of a defective management in banking leading the bank to a stage of bankruptcy, which means that the insolvent bank is going to be closed by the banking authority. In general, the banking sector is viewed as more vulnerable to contagion than other industries since...

During last decades the interest to financial stability and, as a result, to regulatory and supervisory issues has markedly increased in academic and policy circles. Representative research has been done since that time referring to both financial and banking regulation, however only a few...

The paper is focusing on the world financial framework deterioration, as an adverse cost of the accelerated globalization of international goods & capital flows. The inclining of world monetary axis towards East by the accumulation of huge international reserves (in a few Asian countries) in...