Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine whether board characteristics moderate the relationship between capital adequacy regulation and bank risk-taking of universal banks in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Design/methodology/approach The paper uses 700 bank-year observations of universal...

A review of bank restructuring operations in seven countries of Sub-Saharan Africa - Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Mozambique indicates that not all these efforts have succeeded. Interventions to break-up or privatize dominant state-owned banks are, in some cases,...

This paper discusses the dynamics of bank regulation in the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) region during the period before the 1990s and post 1990s and describes the trends in bank regulatory measures between 1995 and 2017 using the updated databases of the World Bank's Bank Regulation and...