financial sector is highly concentrated and foreign owned. Financial indicators suggest a sound banking sector, and show … particular strength in asset quality and earnings. The paper reveals that the Estonian banking sector has significant … vulnerabilities from its real-estate lending. The rapid expansion of the banking sector has been funded, to a large extent, by short …

Observance of Standards and Codes on Monetary and Financial Policy Transparency, Banking Supervision, and Securities Regulation …, and sound and transparent financial policies. Stress tests for systemically important banks show resilience consistent …

Switzerland. Switzerland has a relatively unique banking sector, with a high market concentration by the two largest domestic … banks. The overall assessment of the peer-review team is that Switzerland is generally in compliance with the Basel Core … Principles with two exceptions where the Swiss Federal Banking Commission (SFBC) is deemed largely compliant. The two exception …

for official financial support to stem systemic crisis is appropriate. The current framework for resolving ailing banks in … going could be strengthened considerably. The framework for the orderly liquidation of banks could be strengthened and fine …

only politically difficult decisions to gradually sell state banks will eliminate the drag that current banking practices … financial policy transparency and banking supervision. Financial intermediation in Algeria will be bank-based in the future, and … have on resource allocation. No system dominated by state banks has avoided large loan losses or contributed effectively to …

sector recapitalization packages on the growth performance of firms in a large cross-section of 50 countries during the … disproportionately positively affected by bank recapitalization policies, and that this effect is quantitatively important and robust to …

German banks tend to be less profitable than their foreign counterparts. This paper estimates the likely effect of the … phaseout of state guarantees for public sector banks, reviews the various ways in which public policy could contribute to their … restructuring, and discusses the various arguments for and against public involvement in banking. …

all banks have adequate credit assessment and risk management systems in place and disclose sufficient information to …