Digital payment systems can conveniently and affordably connect entrepreneurs with banks, employees, suppliers, and new markets for their goods and services. These systems can accelerate business registration and payments for business licenses and permits by reducing travel time and expenses....

Digital payment systems can conveniently and affordably connect entrepreneurs with banks, employees, suppliers, and new markets for their goods and services. These systems can accelerate business registration and payments for business licenses and permits by reducing travel time and expenses....

This paper discusses the different functions that capital markets and banks have in economic development, and it reviews the debate about marketbased vs. bank-based financial systems. Using data for a sample of 40 countries over the period 1975-98, the paper then shows that variation in both...

The 2023 banking turmoil had limited effects on banks in the euro area and the EU. Nevertheless, there are important lessons to be learned. Business models matter. Specific banks in the US were hit, with a funding structure relying on sectorally concentrated large and related depositors. Bank...

Thorsten Beck, Europäisches Hochschulinstitut Florenz, sieht in einer wirksamen Regulierung und Aufsicht ein bewegliches Ziel, das sich an veränderte Umstände und Geschäftsmodelle der Banken anpassen müsse. Es gäbe mehrere politische Veränderungen, die die Widerstandsfähigkeit des...