Businesses are the main drivers of any economy and impact all the economic actors explicitly or implicitly. According to Gupta (2010) accountability, transparency, fairness, and responsibility of firms on legal social, and economic grounds are crucial for the wellbeing of every entity of a...

A business value is created by identifying the risks in the business and developing a risk mitigation plan. The only identification of risks is of little use unless an effective advance plan is developed and implemented to reduce either the likelihood or impact or both of the events. In this...

Outside of financial crises, investors have little incentive to produce private information on banks' short-term liabilities held as information-insensitive safe assets. The same does not hold true during crises. We measure daily information production using data from credit default swap spreads...

We develop a new methodology to extract market expectations of recovery rates that uses information from credit default swap spreads on debt instruments of different seniorities, incorporates information on the firm-specific liability structure and allows for deviations from the absolute...

Banks are regarded as special institutions, and regulated and supervised heavily than other institutions. Nevertheless, banks fail like any other commercial entities, and will continue to fail. Given its effects on the society as well as national and international financial systems, bank failure...

On 18-19 June 2007, the BIS held its Sixth Annual Conference, on quot;Financial systems and macroeconomic resiliencequot;, in Brunnen, Switzerland. The event brought together senior representatives of central banks, academic institutions and the private sector to exchange views on this topic....

Are there significant benefits of revenue diversification for banks in emerging economies? This paper investigates the impact of revenue diversification on insolvency risk in emerging economies as measured by the distance to default. Using a panel dataset of 322 listed banks across 22 countries...

Today's regulatory rules, especially the easily-manipulated measures of regulatory capital, have led to costly bank failures. We design a robust regulatory system such that (i) bank losses are credibly borne by the private sector (ii) systemically important institutions cannot collapse suddenly;...

This article discusses some of the challenges present in embedding Enterprise Risk Management issues like corporate governance, independence of CRO, challenges in implementing three lines of defense model, lack of risk knowledge in the first line of defense, lack of risk qualification in the...

The paper analyses the current national and international regulatory regimes relevant for European banks, CSDs and ICSDs, and compares them with the requirements in order to answer the following questions: Is there any overlap between the provisions of the CPSS-IOSCO. Recommendations and the...