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European Financial Cross-Border Consolidation: At the crossroads in Europe? By exception, evolution or revolution?
Abraham, Jean-Paul; van Dijcke, Peter - 2002
aspects. In the clusters of high efficiency British and Nordic Banks predominate. In the clusters of higher vulnerability …
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Internationalization of Banks: Strategic Patterns and Performance
Slager, Alfred - 2005
This essay investigates the relationship between the internationalization of banks, profitability and shareholder value. We argue that in general internationalization has not contributed to profitability, and shareholders have not gained by investing in banks with more international activities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011689921
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The securities custody industry
Chan, Diana; Fontan, Florence; Rosati, Simonetta; … - 2007
Custody is, in essence, a service consisting in holding (and normally administering) securities on behalf of third parties. In step with the growth of sophisticated financial markets, custody has evolved into a complex industry no longer characterised by physical safekeeping but by a range of...
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The economic impact of the Single Euro Payments Area
Schmiedel, Heiko - 2007
, banks expect to benefit from improved cost efficiency and economies of scale and scope. Furthermore, banks are expected to …
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Trends in Competition and Profitability in the Banking Industry: A Basic Framework
Bikker, Jacob A.; Bos, Jaap W.B. - 2005
suggest ways to more clearly distinguish between market power and efficiency, and explain why we need time-dependent models …
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One size fits some: Analysing profitability, capital and liquidity constraints of custodian banks through the lens of the SREP methodology
Coste, Charles-Enguerrand; Tcheng, Céline; … - 2021
Custodians play a key but discrete role in the global financial market infrastructure. In Europe, they are licensed as "credit institutions ", a legal requirement for European deposit-taking institutions, and therefore they face the same prudential requirements as "traditional" banks. However,...
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Banking Mergers and Acquisitions in the EU: Overview, Assessment and Prospects
Ayadi, Rym; Pujals, Georges - 2005
the impact of M&As in European banking on profitability and efficiency, considering the breakdown between domestic and … diversify the sources of revenues was apparent. The cost and profit efficiency analysis based on 33 bank-to-bank mergers …, confirmed an improvement of cost efficiency and little improvement of profit efficiency for domestic transactions; whereas, no …
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Overcapacities in banking: Measurements, trends and determinants
Gardó, Sándor; Klaus, Benjamin - 2019
what are the similarities and existing synergies among these functions? In the following pages, focusing on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012521140
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Towards monitoring a socio-ecological transition
Weiss, Teresa; Unterlass, Fabian - 2015
the transition objective. Based on the distinction between the environmental, social and economic dimensions, synergies … be able to bring the tool into action. In particular, a more detailed elaboration of the synergies and trade-offs would …
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Germany's Energiewende: Synergies, trade-offs and political drivers
Faus Onbargi, Alexia; Dombrowsky, Ines - 2023
impact of ICT on technical efficiency (TE). We adopt propensity score matching to create a balanced sample of ICT users and … maximises synergies and minimises trade-offs. Reducing trade-offs (and their consequences) is especially crucial if the energy …
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