Commercial banks play an important role in the development of a country. A sound, progressive and dynamic banking system is a fundamental requirement for economic development. Thus, the purpose of this study was investigating the impact of investment diversification on financial performance of...

Recent studies indicate that lending portfoliocomposition in Islamic banks is concentrated towardsdebt-based lending portfolio; however, the ideal lending portfoliocomposition in Islamic banks should be an equity-based lending portfolio. This article explores the effects of the internal...

We examine the relation between bank risk management procedures and sales of mortgages during the financial crisis of 2007-2009. Research suggests that banks employing an originate-to-distribute strategy devoted little effort to screening, thereby diminishing their ability to sell loans during...

Using a comprehensive sample of over 10,000 bank loan announcements, we find results that differ from the findings of Maskara and Mullineaux (JFE 2011) and also that of Fields et al (JMCB 2006), which indicated that announcement effect of bank loans on borrower stocks disappeared as of late. We...

Liquidity risk is a challenge facing banks in their efforts to maintain financial stability. Islamic banks are under added pressure with the constraint of having to adhere to Sharia'h principles. The goal of this paper is to investigate the determinants of liquidity risk in Islamic and...

We assess the impact of contingent convertible (CoCo) bonds and the wealth transfers they imply conditional on conversion on the risk-taking behaviour of the issuing bank. We also test for regulatory arbitrage: do banks try to maintain risk-taking incentives by issuing CoCo bonds, when...

The recent global financial crisis has shown portfolio correlations between agents as one of the key channels of risk contagion and amplification. In this work, we analyse the structure and dynamics of the cross-correlation matrix of banks' loan portfolios in the yearly bank-firm credit network...

In the last few years it has been possible to observe decreasing interest margins for German universal banks. At the same time, institutions increasingly moved part of their business from interest to fee-earning activities. This study analyzes the determinants of non-interest income and its...

In this paper we investigated the impact of global capital adequacy norms on the asset portfolios of Indian banks. This research question is important in the Indian context as the Indian banks have adopted global regulatory norms in integration with the already existing domestic policy...

Does high leverage incentivize banks to systematically originate and hold riskier loans? I construct a novel data set consisting of 3 million small business and home mortgage loans, matched to the specific banks that originated them and verified to be held on bank portfolios, rather than sold. I...