The traditional role of a bank was to transfer funds from savers to investors, engaging in maturity transformation … innovation and technology. These new bank business models have had repercussions on the loan contract. In particular, the main … lending. And the lending technology is evolving from one-to-one meetings between a loan officer and a borrower, at a bank …

We analyze the impact of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of England on cross … and UK, respectively. In general QE works at short maturities across bank locations and loan currencies, more strongly for …

Between 1995 and 2005, foreign bank participation in Mexico rose from 2 percent of bank assets to 83 percent, as the … top five largest banks were acquired by foreigners. This paper examines the link between foreign bank acquisitions and … banking outreach. Using quarterly country, bank, and bank-municipality-level data, the authors find some contrasting patterns …

bank-level dataset to assess at a quarterly frequency how changes in the U.S. Federal funds rate (before the crisis) and … the existence of a potent global bank lending channel. In response to changes in U.S. monetary conditions, U.S. banks … strongly adjust their cross-border claims in both the pre and post-crisis period. However, we also find that U.S. bank …

Using a unique bank-level data set on the Ugandan banking system during 1999-2005, the authors explore the factors … not find a robust and economically significant relationship between privatization, foreign bank entry, market structure …, and banking efficiency. Similarly, macroeconomic variables can explain little of the over-time variation in bank spreads …