The present study employs the state of the art bias-corrected Malmquist Productivity Index method to examine the … sources of efficiency and productivity of the foreign and domestic banks operating in the Malaysian banking sector. The … attributed to technological progress. The empirical findings suggest that both the domestic and foreign banks have exhibited …

We study the effect of board governance in state-owned and private banks by undertaking a study of commercial banks in … with the performance of state-owned banks. The effect of CEO duality is negative in state-owned banks where incidence of … of directors and CEO tenure especially in state-owned banks. …

Appropriate counselling interviews, fair credit conditions and the bank’s support in the case of delinquency constitute … creative leeway has been left for instalment loans. We sketch the results of a credit test encompassing a broad range of banks … insurances among the tested banks thus delivering some proof of irresponsible lending. As a way out we discuss a return to …

banks) in the U.S. corporate loan market. For identification, we exploit a supervisory credit register of syndicated loans … Basel III. We find that less-capitalized banks reduce loan retention, particularly among loans with higher capital …

the profitability of banks in Pakistan. The study uses the data of 26 domestic banks over the latest and large period of … government transition of banks having politically connected directors sitting on their board. Our findings further report an …

There is a growing body of evidence that interest rate spreads in Africa are higher for big banks compared to small … banks. One concern is that big banks might be using their market power to charge higher lending rates as they become larger … is influenced by exploitation of market power or economies of scale. Using a panel of 162 African banks for 2001-2011, we …

RBC rules and related rules on bank liquidity. We find that nine of the 27 rules include RIAs. Five of the RIAs claim the …

Basel III, regulating the solvency of banks, is to be fully implemented by 2027 while Solvency III directed at insurers … the solvency of banks and insurers in the same way? The first question is motivated by an earlier finding that Basel I and … II risked inducing more rather than less risk-taking by banks, which also holds for Solvency I and II w.r.t. insurers …

Theoretical foundations in banks' response to capital settlement suggest that the systems proposed by Basel are not …, such as Capital requirements (equity ratio; Tier 1 ratio; Total Equity/Net Loans; Total Equity/Deposits); for liquidity … needs (liquidity/deposits; liquidity/total assets; liquidity/deposits and loans, and net loans/total assets); for leverage …