The Main Street Lending Program was created to support credit to small and medium-sized businesses and nonprofit … operated by buying 95 percent participations in standardized loans from lenders (mostly banks) and sharing the credit risk with …

elements of credit risk management and important to prudential oversight. As illustrated in this paper, valuation feeds into …

credit growth experienced by these countries. We find that, on average, both bank capitalization and lending activities in … Latin America increased after Basel. Consequently, Basel did not seem to lead to an overall credit decline. However, we do … Basel II might cause greater procyclicality of credit. …