The recent market turmoil following the crisis of sub-prime mortgages in the US has provided rich evidence of serious deficiencies in the world financial system. This paper provides some elements for reflection on how to address them. The issues analysed in the paper are classified around four...

I investigate the accounting rules for loan loss recognition in banks. In June 2016 the FASB issued a new rule, effective in December 2019, that will replace current GAAP with a model that allows banks to use broader information to estimate loan loss allowances. To empirically examine current...

Since 2010 most Group of Twenty (G20) jurisdictions have introduced new recovery and resolution regimes to deal with bank failures. The common objective of these regimes is, first, to facilitate the orderly failure of financial institutions and, second, to redirect the bulk of losses to the...

We analyse the cross-border propagation of prudential regulation in the euro area. Using the Prudential Instruments Database (Cerutti et al., 2017b) and a unique confidential database on balance sheets items of euro-area financial institutions we estimate panel models for 248 banks from 16...

Prior to the financial crisis, prudential regulation in the EU was implemented non-uniformly across countries, as options and discretions allowed national authorities to apply a more favorable regulatory treatment. We exploit the national implementation of the CRD and derive a country measure of...

The Nigerian Fintech's space is developing. Traditional financial institutions particularly the banking sector, are redefining their financial offerings by 'finnovating' and blurring the lines that the average Fintech start-ups had initially created through their disruptive technology. However,...

From free people to a unified Thai kingdom in the mid-14th century (Siam until 1939), and from that to Asian Tiger (or Dragon). Although Thailand saw Japanese's brief invasion in 1941, it has never been colonized by a European power. Nevertheless, Thailand has witnessed repeated political...

This paper investigates the effectiveness of macroprudential policy to contain the systemic risk of European banks between 2000 and 2017. We use a new database (MaPPED) collected by experts at the ECB and national central banks with narrative information on a broad range of instruments which are...

Purpose - This study aims to analyze the impact of cooperation between banking supervisory entities on maintaining financial stability, using Single Supervisory Mechanism evolution and performance as instance. Then banking supervisory cooperation and financial stability in Egypt are reviewed....