This paper analyzes the basic banking sector development processes viewed through development of the financial markets, stock-exchange operations and trading with the shares -- particularly those originating from privatization -- as well as through protection of the rights and interests of...

This chapter studies the flow of funds and financial resilience of the banking industry in the Balkans in the face of the global financial crisis and the second great depression. After presenting the stylized facts in terms of standard variables like deposit potential, credit activity, capital...

The global financial crisis has been threatening the banking world since 2007. The erosion of profits and rising losses of banks have been the inevitable consequence of this crisis. "The decline in bank profits was a global phenomenon" (BIS, 2009). Consequential decline in profitability during...