Az Európai Unióban a pénzügyi konglomerátumok kockázataival kapcsolatban 2005től egy új direktíva rendelkezései érvényesülnek. A pénzügyi konglomerátumok az utóbbi évtizedekben a világ számos országában a biztosítók és a különféle bankok egyre szorosabbá váló...

Time-inconsistency of no-bailout policies can create incentives for banks to take excessive risks and generate endogenous crises when the government cannot commit. However, at the outbreak of financial problems, usually the government is uncertain about their nature, and hence it may delay...

Why do some banks fail in financial crises while others survive? This article answers this question by analysing the effect of the Dutch financial crisis of the 1920s on 142 banks, of which 33 failed. We find that choices of balance sheet composition and product market strategy made in the...

In this paper, we focus on the technology side of transformation programs, specifically for retail banking. We do not cover organizational or strategic business aspects, which may be the trigger for such transformations. We do assume that a decision on consolidating or replacing core banking...

The paper attempted to investigate the effectiveness and the efficiency of the Swiss banking sector, through the elaboration of solid econometric approaches focusing on solid scientific methodologies: effectiveness and efficiency. The two concepts make up a widespread in econometric literature,...

From the 1980s onwards the banking sectors in all the industrialised countries have been experiencing intense restructuring, aggregation and consolidation, radically changing their ownership structures and geography. Whatever the reasons behind such restructuring processes, the globalisation of...

Risk diversification is one of the many reasons for cross-sector mergers of financialinstitutes. This paper presents a fair-value type asset and liability model in order to identify diversification effects for financial conglomerates (PCs) under various shocks. My analysis for the Netherlands...

This paper aims to empirically test the credit risk, measured as non-performing loans, of cooperative banks which operate in a specific Italian geographic area (Lazio, Umbria and Sardegna).We perform a regression analysis over the period 1995-2009. The findings, in contrast with most of the...

The survey, coordinated by the Risk Analysis and Risk Management office of ABI, was carried out in autumn 2011 and analysed the state of the Compliance function in 40 Italian banks of various sizes. The survey covered subjects such as the reporting lines of the compliance function to top...

The beginning of the internationalisation of the Spanish companies in the early 90s, favoured an investing development that, because of its progress, speed and volume surprised those at an international level and, especially, in Latin America. The BBVA case is highlighted in the financial field,...