savings and cooperative banks - SMEs' most important financiers - hardly consider this aspect in lending to these businesses … case of regional banks into the debate on green finance and green banking and suggest future research in this context. In … discussing the state of research on the peculiarities of regional savings and cooperative banks, we outline the resulting …

78 publicly listed Japanese regional banks during the 2007-2008 crisis period. Findings Banks that were more diversified … prompted banks to engage in higher risk-taking activities in pursuit of higher returns, putting banks at a higher risk of … default. Finally, banks perceived to have better quality accounting information, by being audited by one of the Big 4 auditors …

1) D.T. Llewellyn, " The future for small & regional banks in Europe" 2) R. Ortner, " What future for regional banks …, regional financial organisations, be they banks, stock exchanges or other financial entities. This line of argument leads to …

evaluating Japanese regional banks from 2000 to 2009. We extend and enhance previous studies, including Gonis and Taylor (2009 … rate Japanese regional banks more stringently during this period, perhaps because they wished not to repel clients and …

This paper investigates whether credit associations put competitive pressure on regional banks in Japanese regional … lending markets. It was found that credit associations pressure regional banks to set lower lending interest rates in regional …, regional banks in a prefecture whose share of credit associations is from 25% to 30% experience the strongest pressure. …

Non-parametric estimates of technical efficiency of Russian banks are considered for each quarter in the period of 2002 … estimates are robust. Foreign banks are more efficient than domestic banks in all quarters with the only exception of 2004Q2 …, which could be explained by so-called “crisis of confidence” (bank crisis in Russia in that period). Since 2006 Moscow banks …

investor. The article argues that German-style Sparkassen are needed: that is, regional banks that provide the seed money for …

By lending to SMEs at low geographical distance, banks can realise competitive advantage due to enhanced access to soft … information that allows the better screening of firms. As especially regional banks lend at a low distance, the decentralised … screening, it can no longer be assumed that modern regional banks "naturally" conduct credit decisions at lower distances to …