Investment Company (IC) sector. Stress tests indicate that, in contrast to the ICs, the banking system could broadly withstand … significant shocks. The Central Bank of Kuwait's (CBK) well-designed framework for banks has proven effective in shielding the … banking sector from the crisis. It shows that the enactment of the capital market law is an important step toward the creation …

, along with variables reflecting macroeconomic conditions, the structure of the banking system, and the quality of political …

banking supervision, securities regulation, and insurance regulation. The banking sector has weathered the recent economic …

vector autoregressive method that controls for bank-level characteristics. Using a panel of banks over 1993-2010, the authors … reports that a larger market share of foreign banks in the industry improves loan quality. …

links between banks and the Belgian sovereign have intensified owing to the crisis, with total exposure of the banking … the banking and insurance sectors of Belgium since 2006. The Belgian financial system is relatively large with solid … sector to the federal government at 10 percent of banking sector assets in mid-2012. …

risks are reputational risk, both for the Gibraltar authorities and for the banks, as the bulk of the assets managed are off …

the banking system of Cyprus has managed to avoid the worst effects of the global financial crisis, but stress tests …