The financial sector is undergoing extensive changes and challenges that affect the entire market and infrastructure of financial service providers. Technological development leads to increased digitalisation and allows new business models to emerge. With regard to the banking sector, it is...

The authors present a detailed case study of the evolution of apprenticeships in German banking over the past two decades to analyze why employers continue to be willing to invest in these programs that provide workers with transferable skills. They explain employers' motivation in terms of two...

This paper describes the pay-for-performance sensitivity of the compensation and its disclosure as two dimensions of the board remuneration systems in the European countries.

Why do good bankers at times respond unanimously with the same disastrous strategy? Rooted in regulatory economics and behavioural finance, the paper offers a taxonomy of effects that narrow banks decision scope into funnel-shaped and thus prepared the ground for the financial crisis. The basic...