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Bank Consolidation and Performance : The Argentine Experience

International Monetary Fund - 2004

We examine a large panel of more than 100 banks from Argentina to study the effects of bank consolidation on … performance between December 1995 and December 2000, a period of heavy bank consolidation and relative calm. Overall, we find a … positive and significant effect of bank consolidation on bank performance. Bank returns increase with consolidation, and …

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Debt Relief and Leveraged Buy-Outs

International Monetary Fund - 1988

Analyses of debt relief that focus on the behavior of debtors and existing creditors understate the incentives for collective action by creditors. It is well known that debt relief could benefit existing creditors by providing incentives for domestic investment by residents of debtor countries....

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Isle of Man; Crown Dependency of the United Kingdom: Assessment of the Supervision and Regulation of the Financial Sector Volume IIâ€”Detailed Assessment of Observance of Standards and Codes

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003

This assessment of the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision has been completed as part of the IMF Offshore Financial Center (OFC) assessment program. First, the assessment benchmarks the current state of banking supervision, recognizing that there have been extensive changes...

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Iceland; Financial System Stability Assessment Update, including Report on the Observance and Standards and Codes on the following topics: Banking Supervision, Insurance Regulation, Securities Regulation, Payment Systems, and Monetary and Financial Policy Transparency

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003

The 2001 financial system stability assessment identified risks of financial sector instability, as rapid increases in foreign and domestic currency indebtedness, accumulating external imbalances, and inflation accompanied Iceland's expansion of the late 1990s. The insurance sector, composed of...

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Antigua and Barbuda; Detailed Assessment of Compliance with Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervisionâ€”Offshore Banking

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

Supervision is presented. The largest bank represents 61 percent of the sectorâ€™s aggregated assets, highlighting an important …

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Italy; Detailed Assessment of Compliance with the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

This paper reviews findings of the Detailed Assessment of Italyâ€™s Compliance with the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision. The Italian banking system seems to exhibit a high degree of resilience to possible macroeconomic shocks, as supported by the evolution of some...

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Cayman Islands; Assessment of the Supervision and Regulation of the Financial Sectorâ€”Volume IIâ€”Detailed Assessment of Observance of Standards and Codes

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

Accord and are applied in practice based primarily on the perceived differences in risk related to bank ownership. …

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Germany's Three-Pillar Banking System; Cross-Country Perspectives in Europe

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

German banks tend to be less profitable than their foreign counterparts. This paper estimates the likely effect of the phaseout of state guarantees for public sector banks, reviews the various ways in which public policy could contribute to their restructuring, and discusses the various...

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Colombia; Financial System Stability Assessment Update, including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the following topics: Securities Regulation, Insolvency and Creditor Rights Systems, and Payment Systems; and Comments by Authorities

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

Banks lacks sufficient autonomy and independence while the current legal framework fails to effectively protect either bank …

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Senegal; Financial System Stability Assessment Update

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

This Financial System Stability Assessment Update on Senegal reports that the banking sector remains the cornerstone of the financial sector, and risk concentration remains the main source of vulnerability. The largest microfinance institutions (MFI) are sound, but smaller ones are weaker and...

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