This paper estimates the funding advantage afforded by the joint liability scheme to German Landesbanken. The advantage is estimated by computing the difference between Moody's baseline credit assessment (BCA), representing the stand-alone rating, and the adjusted BCA incorporating group support...

On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and...

The growing need for diversification in Italian banks can easily look to the insurance market, which has interesting opportunities from both the point of view of size and growth rate, and also from the point of view of the multiple nature and various kinds of relations that are being set up,...

Growth of non-cash monies has been sustained in the main by that of individual ruble-denominated bank deposits. The deposits and monies kept on their bank accounts by organizations have been growing at a slower pace, thus corresponding to the movement of their turnover in nominal terms. At the...

In January-November 2021, retail bank deposits increased slightly and their share in bank liabilities decreased. The factors of the slowdown were: the outflow of funds into the purchase of real estate due to the availability of mortgages; attractive conditions on the stock market; the growth of...

One of the important consequences to be drawn from the course of the financial crisis up to now is the insight that more attention must be paid in the future to the factors of liquidity, liquidity management and liquidity protection. That holds true for the protection of the stability of an...

German savers are renowned for preferring safe, long-term investments, thus providing patient capital, with bank deposits playing an important role. Using a comprehensive data set for the German banking sector, we examine whether German depositors are really that patient, abstaining from any...

German savers are renowned for preferring safe, long-term investments, thus providing patient capital, with bank deposits playing an important role. Using a unique data set provided by the Deutsche Bundesbank for German banks, we examine whether German depositors are really that patient,...