In Nordrhein-Westfalen reicht die Wirtschaftsförderung durch staatliche Banken bis in das frühe 19. Jahrhundert zurück. Mehrere der Ziele und Instrumente der damals agierenden Institute leben in der NRW.BANK fort. Im Zeitverlauf haben geänderte wirtschaftliche und politische...

Mit 875 Instituten und über 10.000 Bankstellen bilden die deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken eines der am stärksten verwurzelten lokalen Bankenservicenetze Deutschlands. In deren Zusammenarbeit mit Förderbanken agiert die DZ BANK als Mittler in der analogen wie der digitalen Welt.

This study examines the speed of adjustment of the leverage and regulatory capital ratios between 2002 and 2018 for large commercial banks of the USA. The study applies a two-step system GMM technique to obtain the speed of adjustment. The results prove that higher-quality capital requires...

This paper aims to assess the current condition of the Egyptian banking sector, based on the past reforms of the 2000s. This analysis is based on data from the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE), data from the Egyptian banking sector and the literature review. The main fi nding is that despite many...

Financial inclusion is a prerequisite to economic development. This has been echoed by international as well as national bodies. Studies have shown that financial exclusion has its roots in social exclusion. This indicates the depth and importance of financial inclusion in creating inclusive...

The study derives the closed-form solution of the valuation of deposit insurance under forbearance for banks whose capital requirements are either solely based on the 1988 Basel Accord (BA) approach or the VaR-based approach. The study also demonstrates that the deposit insurance liability under...

This study sought to estimate the level of technical efficiency and total factor productivity of RCBs in Ghana using Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). The total factor productivity (TFP) was decomposed into efficiency change and technical change over the study period. Quarterly data spanning...

Interest in the role of diversity in banking sectors has increased substantially since the financial crisis (and the subsequent sovereign debt crises) have hit European countries differentially. The purpose of this note is to hint at crucial research gaps in terms of appreciating consequences of...

This paper examines the effects of macroeconomic policy and regulatory environment on mobile money usage. Specifically, we develop an autoregressive distributed lag model to investigate the effect of key macroeconomic variables and mobile money tax on mobile money usage in Uganda. Using monthly...

This paper aims to study the impacts of bank funding diversity, non-performing loans (NPLs), and business cycles on bank performance. We employ Fixed Effect Models and the two-step system Generalized Method of Moments to examine a sample of 37 Vietnamese banks from 2005 to 2020. Our findings...