Potential new entrants to the European Union from Central and Eastern European countries face many challenges to achieve financial convergence with the existing EU nations. Using detailed case studies from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland and analysis of cross country...

[fre] La concurrence accrue, la restructuration mais aussi l'harmonisation prudentielle à l'échelle internationale des conditions d'activités dans l'industrie bancaire oblige à s'interroger sur d'éventuelles spécificités de la réaction des systèmes bancaires à l'évolution des taux...

Since the subprime crisis, the regulatory framework for bank regulation has undergone substantial changes with the release, in December 2010, of the Basel 3 document. The new framework reintroduces a simple capital ratio, the leverage ratio, which is added to the more sophisticated capital...

M<sc>eslier</sc>-C<sc>rouzille</sc> C., N<sc>ys</sc> E. and S<sc>auviat</sc> A. Contribution of rural banks to regional economic development: evidence from the Philippines, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The paper examines the link between banking and economic development in the Philippine regions and it focuses on the role of rural banks...