services has increased. Both banks and microfinance institutions have contributed to higher intensity. A recent study shows …

This study examines the determinants of capital adequacy and voluntary capital buffers among microfinance institutions … panel data of 439 MFIs in Ghana covering the period 2015-2018, the study found that credit risk, income diversification … that drive voluntary capital buffers are income diversification, size and equity-to-asset ratio, but size and economic …

Many governments and nongovernmental organizations have adopted policies to promote the growth of microfinance …

Recent policy discussion includes the introduction of diversification requirements for sovereign bond portfolios of … European banks. In this paper, we evaluate the possible effects of these constraints on risk and diversification in the … analysis. We then analyse the risk and diversification in the sovereign bond portfolios of the largest European banks and …

Recent policy discussion includes the introduction of diversification requirements for sovereign bond portfolios of … European banks. In this paper, we evaluate the possible effects of these constraints on risk and diversification in the … analysis. We then analyze the risk and diversification in the sovereign bond portfolios of the largest European banks and …

geographic complexity can engender explicit trade-offs between the agency problems that increase risk and the diversification … geographic scope tend to provide diversification gains and reduce idiosyncratic and liquidity risks while also increasing BHCs …