The analysis of principal data on Chinese banks highlights how they are exposed to credit risk, primarily generated from loans to public companies. Chinese banks have a good capital provision; the analysis of economic data describes a system oriented towards relationship lending; the average...

The credibility of prudential metrics as proxies for risk, i.e. the backbone of the Basel capital framework, is often called into question. From a regulatory side, ongoing works aim at strengthening the risk-sensitivity of capital requirements but, at the same time, banks’ autonomy is often...

Supervisory fragmentation is a cause of systemic risk, as cooperation amongst national authorities is bound to fail in crisis events. The situation will be different under the Banking Union when the Single Supervisory Mechanism is in place even if it shows some weaknesses: the Ssm includes...

The major Italian banking groups have adopted over the past 5 years the figure of the Chief Risk Officer, with an Area that includes the functions of Risk Management and Compliance. The solutions adopted meet the requirements set out in the regulation for the prudential supervision of banks: the...

The Social Disclosure (Sd), in general, expressed through corporate social reporting can sometimes be reflected only in a series of fulfillment. In this perspective, the research aims to verify, with reference to Cooperative Credit Banks (Bcc) in Italy, if the intensity of Sd is actually...

Turbulence and global economy’s fragility are increasing the propagation of stresses and traumas in interconnected systems. The Too-big-Too-Fail concept, however, is now becoming less significant and a new idea – Too-Complex-To- Survive – is gaining popularity. Since excessive complexity...

The goal of this paper is to analyze the role that non-financial variables can play in assessing Smes creditworthiness and to compare their value in predicting business failure with the one of the most commonly used financial ratios. We investigate the importance for banks in modeling credit...

After the downgrading by Moody’s of the rating assigned to Italy, can credit guarantees Consortia continue to be risk mitigators tools? The UniCredit group experience has led to an internal rating specific to Mutual associations, which allows the bank to identify on an objective basis the...

The increasing adoption by traditional banks of typical direct banking methods and the growing confidence of customers demonstrate the success of this model. It is now necessary to consolidate it through the adoption of solutions that are not only based on the economic advantages that direct...

The legislative changes introduced in the Italian pre-insolvency law for corporate crisis management provide the opportunity to reconsider the question related to the bank’s responsibility in the case of restructuring agreements’ execution