The recent financial crisis has shown that financial innovation can have devastating systemic impacts. International standard setters'' and national regulators'' response has been a global concerted effort to overhaul and tighten financial regulations. However, at a time of designing stricter...

This paper attempts to compare policies and practices on the disclosure of external auditing results of deposit taking institutions in Hong Kong, Indonesia, China, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Korea and Malaysia

Reputation is growing as a very important asset in everyday corporate life and it is even crucial for financial corporations. The main financial institutions consider reputation as one of the six risk factors to be managed by any corporation in financial sector: credit, market, operational,...

Big is bad. At least that has become the view of many individuals about big banks ever since the financial crisis of 2007-2009. The fear is that if a big bank gets into trouble, its problems will infect other financial institutions and threaten the entire economy. Historically, however, big...