regimes--a European Banking Charter (EBC)--could harness market forces to establish a level playing field for financial sector …

Over the last decade, Islamic banking has experienced global growth rates of 10-15 percent per annum, and has been … are present today in over 51 countries. Despite this consistent growth, many supervisory authorities and finance … challenges that countries will face as Islamic banking develops alongside conventional institutions. …

competitive conduct of financial institutions and banking system fragility. Using the Panzar and Rosse H-Statistic as a measure … for competition in 38 countries during 1980-2003, we present evidence that more competitive banking systems are less prone …

The recent wave of foreign investment in China's banks and the prospects of further opening of the banking sector under … stock of the involvement of foreign banks in the Chinese banking sector in the perspective of international experience … China appears to be well positioned to benefit from further opening of the banking sector to foreign investors …

A banking system module is incorporated into the Central Bank of Barbados's multisectoral macroeconomic forecasting …. Stress tests are performed for the first year of the forecast, to test the banking system's resilience to real sector shocks …. The analysis, which would in practice be only part of the vulnerability assessment, indicates that the banking system is …