This paper tackles the issue of risk governance of the banking sector. Since the 2007 financial crisis, there has been an increased awareness of risk governance in the banking sector. The importance of banking to the economy is such that society in general has an interest in appropriate...

This paper presents a cross-country comparison of significant predictors of small business failure between Italy and the UK. Financial measures of profitability, leverage, coverage, liquidity, scale and non-financial information are explored, some commonalities and differences are highlighted....

Gender is prohibited from use in decision-making in many countries. This does not necessarily benefit females, as this paper shows by analysing a unique proprietary dataset on car loans from an EU bank. The results suggest that inclusion of Gender as a dummy variable is statistically...

Online mail order and online retail purchases have increased rapidly in the last five years worldwide, with Covid-19 forcing almost all non-grocery shopping to move online. These practices have increased the availability of new data sources, such as web behavioural variables providing scope for...

Creditors such as banks frequently use expert systems to support their decisions when issuing loans and credit assessment has been an important area of application of machine learning techniques for decades. In practice, banks are often required to provide the rationale behind their decisions in...

Poor corporate governance can damage the interests of shareholders, and may lead to company collapse. Previous studies in credit risk prediction provide no consensus as to which and how corporate governance variables determine bankruptcy. This paper is the first to apply a discrete time hazard...