How do developments at lending institutions that alter the way they grant and monitor loans influence their borrowers' financial reporting quality (FRQ)? We examine this question by investigating the influence that privatizations of Chinese state banks (CSBs) had on the quality of their...

Much progress has been made in reducing settlement risk in foreign exchange markets, particularly through use of CLS Bank. However, the remaining exposures are sometimes still significantly large and not always well managed, creating the potential for systemic risk. To address this problem, it...

The recent financial crisis has shown that financial innovation can have devastating systemic impacts. International standard setters'' and national regulators'' response has been a global concerted effort to overhaul and tighten financial regulations. However, at a time of designing stricter...

There are few things more constant in life than the rise and fall of financial markets. When markets crash, however, we are forced to restore them while learning from our mistakes. In the wake of the recent subprime mortgage crisis, Congress has drastically but deservedly overhauled the...

The globalization of finance has led to the development of more integrated global exchange networks among countries and deeper interrelationships between their economies. Many financial institutions and activities that once were local are now international. While business and finance are global...

Basic information on the organization, operation, and growth of the financial system helps the students and early career researchers to gain better insights and understanding of the subject. The purpose of this paper is to compile the concepts, terminologies, and definitions – used in the...

We develop a model of the joint capital structure decisions of banks and their borrowers. Strikingly high bank leverage emerges naturally from the interplay between two sets of forces. First, seniority and diversification reduce bank asset volatility by an order of magnitude relative to that of...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the technological and organizational innovations in the retail banking, with particular reference to the multi-channel banking business model. The key elements of this paper are the distinctive features of the application of the multi-channel model in the...

Operational risk management in banking has assumed such importance during the last decades. It has become increasingly important to measure, manage, and assess the impact of operational risk in the economics of banking. The paper aims to demonstrate how an effective operational risk management...