Asset-liability management (ALM) is a term whose meaning has evolved. It is used in slightly different ways in different contexts. ALM was pioneered by financial institutions, but corporations now also apply ALM techniques. In banking, asset and liability management is the practice of managing...

EVA (Economic Valued Added) is a modern financial measurement tool that determines if a business is earning more than its true cost of capital. Including a cost for the use of equity capital sets EVA apart from more popular measures of bank performance, such as return on assets (ROA), return on...

Using binary choice logistic regression with quasi panel data (1998-2011) to develop a probability of default model for Russian banks we have found that: 1) there is a quadratic interaction between bank's capital adequacy ratio and its default probability; 2) there is a negative relationship...

Under the Basel II accord, improving probability of default models is a key risk-management priority. There are four main aspects of this research: suggesting the bank default classification; using a wide time horizon (quarterly Russian banking statistics from 1998 to 2011); investigating the...

In this paper we use credit rating data from two Swedish banks to elicit evidence on these banks’ loan monitoring ability. We do so by comparing the ability of bank ratings to predict loan defaults relative to that of public ratings from the Swedish credit bureau. We test the banks’...

(VF)Comparée aux firmes classiques, la gouvernance des banques fait preuve de nombreuses spécificités liées aux particularités de ce secteur. En effet, la gouvernance des banques se singularise par l’importance des mécanismes externes (comme la réglementation) aussi bien qu’internes...

Rochet constructs a model of the payment flows that allows him to capture in a simple fashion the propagation of financial crises in an environment where both liquidity shocks and solvency shocks affect financial intermediaries that fund long-term investments with demand deposits. Forbes...

When historical cost is used, the incomes are smoothed in a way that delays the recognition of the financial institutions lessening solvency, especially in the case of fixed rate loans when market rates are decreasing. We study the case of Credit Lyonnais which had the opportunity to transfer...

The paper presents econometric analysis of the of Russian banks ratings, and the experts’ opinion based on a survey, designed in a framework of the project. From the ratings and the survey we derived the factors that in the experts’ opinion and in the rating agencies’ opinion are most...

This study discusses how customers perceive services given by the banks. Characteristics added to regular services by the banks have been examined whether the customers see them as value or not. Following, these characteristics have been examined to construct a dimensional approach. Among...