Cooperative banks are an important, and growing, part of many financial systems. This paper empirically analyzes the … role of cooperative banks in financial stability. Contrary to some suggestions in the literature, we find that cooperative … banks are more stable than commercial banks. This finding is due to the lower volatility of the cooperative banks' returns …

recommendations of the 2004 FSAP. Many improvements have been made to bank and securities supervision. The banking sector as a whole …

Bank profits are high in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) compared to other regions. This paper uses a sample of 389 banks in …

The recent expansion of the balance sheet of the consolidated Federal Reserve Banks (FRB) is analyzed in an historical …

, the characteristics of their financial and banking systems and their interactions with the real sector are studied. The … paper also examines the limitations on portfolio diversification confronting banks in these countries, both from the … viewpoint of the real sector and of the financial system. The paper finds that banks in LDEs, particularly in low …

financial system is still weak. The crisis has set back progress toward a strong, competitive banking system for the future. The … structured corrective action regime and a unified administration regime for all banks, with broad powers for the administrator …

The global financial crisis is creating stress on banking systems across the world through funding and asset quality … reduce bank capital below the regulatory minimum. On the funding side, a disruption to banks' offshore funding may put …

This study looks at the first two years of the banking crisis that erupted in Indonesia in late 1997. It finds that the … banking sector was weak at the outset, and that governance problems intensified the crisis and seriously delayed its … in the costs of resolution. By end-1999, the critical elements to reconstruct the banking system were in place, and the …

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the performance of French banks and the financial support measures taken by the … French government. France has a large and sophisticated financial system, which accounts for 10 percent of the global banking … system and 5 percent of global capital markets. This paper presents an overview of the French banking and supervision …