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encouraged the usage of major Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs) such as Moody’s, Standard and Poor's, and Fitch as quasi governmental … rating agencies. To overcome the problem of informational asymmetry for the market participants, the Basel Committee on … evaluation of the new reporting proposals of BCBS within the critical role of the credit rating agencies. …
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Reputation is growing as a very important asset in everyday corporate life and it is even crucial for financial corporations. The main financial institutions consider reputation as one of the six risk factors to be managed by any corporation in financial sector: credit, market, operational,...
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We quantify the differences between market and regulatory assessments of bank portfolio risk, showing that larger differences significantly reduce corporate lending rates. Specifically, to entice borrowers, banks reduce spreads by approximately 4.1% following a one standard deviation increase in...
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Operational risk management in banking has assumed such importance during the last decades. It has become increasingly important to measure, manage, and assess the impact of operational risk in the economics of banking. The paper aims to demonstrate how an effective operational risk management...
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Traditional capital structure theory predicts that reducing banks' leverage reduces the risk and cost of equity but does not change the weighted average cost of capital, and thus the rates for borrowers. We confirm that the equity of better-capitalized banks has lower beta and idiosyncratic...
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This paper analyses key documents of Basel Committee which concern operational risk governance and identifies the interconnectedness between risk source, type of the event leading to losses, loss type and its distribution by business lines. The comparative characteristic of the main operational...
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This paper focuses on the defining the role of CRO in corporate governance and to show the interrelation between the way of CRO subordination and performance of investment bank. The sample consists of observations over a period of 2011 for 29 biggest investment banks (by amount of assets)...
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Market risk reporting in banking has assumed such importance during the last decade. The purpose of this paper is to provide a methodology to evaluate the qualitative and quantitative profiles of the market risk disclosure in banking. We propose a hybrid methodology to assess whether or not...
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The article deals with the procyclical development of risk weights and hence the risk-weighted capital ratio. The leverage ratio should be included in the regulatory reform package (CRR2) as a (non-risk-weighted) prudential backstop. The article defines the complementary relationship of capital...
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In our paper we analyze the heterogeneity between various business models among systemically important banks in 65 countries over the period of 2000-2012. For the first time, we are able to identify true banking strategies consisting of different combinations of bank asset and funding sources...
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