This study employs factor analysis to develop a conceptual model of bank financial condition from financial ratios and other characteristics in Nigerian banking. It paints the anatomy of the phenomenon in a conceptual model around the prudential application of market power and market presence to...

This paper aims to develop a discriminant model that depicts bank financial condition in Nigeria. An earlier paper suggests ANATOMY model of bank financial condition as viable upgrade of the CAMELS framework that bank supervisors use (Njoku, 2011). Within the ANATOMY framework, the study...

The study builds upon the anatomy of banking firm financial condition developed from the Nigerian experience during 1990-2004 (Njoku and Inanga, 2008b) to explain the underlying nature of the 2008-2009 global banking crises. The anatomy framework conceptualised bank financial condition in seven...

This study evaluates the CAMELS tool, which bank regulators use to gauge bank financial condition as part of off-site surveillance. Both the choice of variables and the factors that they represent affect regulatory opinion on the nature of bank problem and policy measures applicable. By...