This paper discusses the concept of leverage, its components and how to measure and monitor it. It proposes an innovative approach to assessing leverage based on flows using the concept of a marginal leverage ratio, which reveals the leverage related to new activities, as a valuable supplement...

We examine the mechanism through which a financial crisis affects the default risk of real economy firms. We find that firms with strong dependence on bank financing suffer from higher increases in default risk than firms with no such dependence. Conversely, firms that rely solely on financing...

Credit risk management is an important aspect for a banking institution. This study attempted to investigate the impact of bank-specific factors and macroeconomic factors that will affecting credit risk of Bank of Ayudhya in Thailand. This study employed multi regression analysis from the year...

Enterprise risk management (ERM) has emerged as a framework for more holistic and integrated risk management with an emphasis on enhanced governance of the risk management system. ERM should theoretically reduce the volatility of cash flows, agency risk and information risk – ultimately...

When estimating Loss Given Default (LGD) parameters using a workout approach, i.e. discounting cash flows over the workout period, the problem arises of how to take into account partial recoveries from incomplete work-outs. The simplest approach would see LGD based on complete recovery profiles...

This study explores the impact of credit risk on the performance of UOB Bank of Singapore. The data for this study comes from the annual reports of the bank for five years. This study purpose is to analyse the impact of credit risk of UOB Bank of Singapore towards its financial performance. The...

Shawbrook Bank Ltd is a commercial bank serving wide range of savings and lending products to their customers especially small and medium enterprises. Therefore, credit risk associated with the loans is high. The purpose of this study is to study the effect of internal factors, external factors...