This paper discusses the dynamics of bank regulation in the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) region during the period before … the 1990s and post 1990s and describes the trends in bank regulatory measures between 1995 and 2017 using the updated … databases of the World Bank's Bank Regulation and Supervision Surveys, Before the 1990s, bank regulation in the majority of SSA …

capital adequacy regulation and bank risk-taking of universal banks in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Design …/methodology/approach The paper uses 700 bank-year observations of universal banks in SSA between 2009 and 2019. The paper further uses the two … related to overall bank and liquidity risks. Nonetheless, capital adequacy regulation increases credit risk in the sampled …