A technical note on the stress test of Israel’s banking, insurance, and pension sectors is presented. The Israel … risks of key banking and insurance institutions. Satellite models cover housing and corporate credit, household nonhousing …

is a core of strong banks that are well managed and appear resilient to further shocks, vulnerabilities remain …. Substantial progress has been made in reforming the former savings banks, and the most vulnerable institutions have either been … further restructuring and recapitalization of some of the remaining weaker banks may be needed as a result of deteriorating …

This Detailed Assessment of Compliance—Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision on the Republic of … (NBRB) fulfills its responsibilities of authorization, supervision, and regulation of banking institution operations through … the Banking Supervision Directorate. The NBRB noted that the authorities continue working on the implementation of …

restructuring of the banking sector in the 1990s has helped improve the efficiency and competition of the Italian banking industry … the Italian banking sector has not yet been fully reflected in the pricing and quality of core services. …

A detailed assessment report on the observance of China’s compliance of Basel Core Principles for effective banking … supervision is presented. Regulation and supervision of China’s banking system has made impressive progress in the past few … years, led by an activist, forward-looking regulator, the China Banking Regulatory Commission, with a clear safety and …

for banking supervision conforms to internationally accepted minimum standards. Executive Directors recommend that …

Banking Supervision. The U.S. financial system is large and highly diversified. At the end-2007, total U.S. financial assets …

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 …

We use data for more than 2,600 European banks to test whether increased competition causes banks to hold higher … capital ratios. Employing panel data techniques, and distinguishing between the competitive conduct of small and large banks …, we show that banks tend to hold higher capital ratios when operating in a more competitive environment. This result holds …