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Corporate Governance of Banks : Is More Board Independence the Solution?

Dorenbos, Edyta M. - 2013

In the context of corporate governance reforms following the global financial crisis, policymakers have focused on how to reduce the bank manager' incentives to take risks in order to promote financial stability. On both sides of the Atlantic, legislation seeks to pursue this goal by enhancing...

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Chapter 6. Boards, and the Directors Who Sit on Them

Adams, Renée B. - 2017

Boards of directors are intellectually interesting; the literature on boards has academic impact and there is substantial scope for this literature to have policy impact. I illustrate these points by combining a select review of the literature with evidence from a variety of data sets. Boards...

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The Requirement for a Director of Corporate Defense in UK Banking Institutions

Lyons, Sean - 2009

The banking crisis has cruelly exposed how UK banks failed to adequately defend the interests of their multiple stakeholders and has resulted in the reputation of the banking sector being severely tarnished. This proposal specifically addresses measures to help to improve corporate governance in...

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Board meetings and bank performance in Africa

Kyei, Simms Mensah; Werner, Katarzyna; Appiah, Kingsley … - In: Cogent business & management 9 (2022) 1, pp. 1-16

This study examines the relationship between a board meeting and banks performance in Africa. This paper provides insight on this question after taking into account the endogeneity of the relationship between board meetings and performance. Specifically, we use the GMM technique and a sample of...

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The Effects of Financial Deregulation on Bank Governance : Evidence from Bank Merger Deregulation

Roengpitya, Rungporn - 2011

This paper examines the effects of the bank merger deregulation passed by U.S. Congress in 1994 on the board … states for 3 years, I found that banks in states with intrastate branching deregulation had a lower proportion of outside … board directors (OBDs) and banks in states with interstate banking and the bank holding company deregulation had a higher …

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Corporate Governance of Banks, Performance, Market and Capital Structure

Lazarides, Themistokles G. - 2019

Many scholars have linked Corporate Governance (CG) and performance or CG, capital structure of banks or market structure. The decision to use the capital market or debt in order to obtain the necessary capital to finance firms' operations is a critical factor for the formulation of corporate...

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The Corporate Governance Movement, Banks and the Financial Crisis

Cheffins, Brian R. - 2014

deregulation trend that provided executives with unprecedented managerial discretion as the 20th century drew to a close. With …

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Gender quotas, board diversity and spillover effects : evidence from Italian banks

Del Prete, Silvia; Papini, Giulio; Tonello, Marco - 2024

We study the impact of a law, which required the increase of the proportion of women on boards of listed companies to at least one third. We look at its impact on listed banks, but also test whether it led to spillovers into non-listed banks belonging to listed groups or along other board...

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Nationality diversity of bank boards

Nedelchev, Miroslav - In: Naše gospodarstvo : NG 64 (2018) 1, pp. 3-10

The aim of this paper is to carry out a comparative study for nationality diversity in bank boards. The study covers practices of board diversity of nine commercial banks. The data are compared for subsidiary banks in Bulgaria and their parent banks from the home country. The study defines a...

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The effects of internal governance factors on lending portfolio composition in Islamic banks

Nizar Yousef Ahmed Naim; Nora Azureen Abdul Rahman - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 11 (2023) 3, pp. 1-16

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...

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