Cross-border financing is one of the pillars of globalization, and can facilitate crucial growth across the Islamic finance industry. However, ATILA YANPAR highlights the urgency for updating cross-border financing regulation in order to ensure that this growth does not bring with it a...

This paper explores why Spanish banks internationalise and why Latin America has been the main region for the international expansion of BBVA and Santander. It shows that prior to 1986 Spanish banks had a limited presence abroad, and analyses the main drivers of this initial expansion...

Does the new European outlook on financial markets, as voiced by the EU Commission since the beginning of the Capital Market Unions imply a movement of the EU towards an alignment of market integration and direct supervision of common rules? This paper sets out to answer this question for the...