banks within a financial system, as well as those with significant international reach, to identify vulnerabilities and …

undertaken by central banks both in advanced and developing countries to promote financial inclusion. The issue has also …

This paper runs qualitative and quantitative analyses of the financial soundness of Danish banks. Helped by a series of … Denmark’s financial policy initiatives, banks have made progress in improving financial stability. However, vulnerabilities … remain. To mitigate risks, banks should continue to build more robust capital and liquidity buffers, and enhance further the …

This paper explores the determinants of Japanese banks’ overseas expansion and assesses whether the growing cross …-border activity will continue under the new macroeconomic policies referred as “Abenomics”. The analysis finds that Japanese banks are …

central counterparties’ risk buffers, in line with recent enhancements to the capital regime for banks. …

This paper examines how Japan’s long-term interest rates and Japanese banks’ interest rate risk exposures may evolve … Japanese banks could decline substantially over the next two years. However, if structural and fiscal reforms are incomplete …, both long-tem yields and interest-risk exposures of Japanese banks could increase over the medium term. …

is the evolution of banks’ stock price exposure to country-level and global risk factors as approximated by equity … indices; second, which bank-specific characteristics explain these risk exposures; third, are there clusters of banks with … risk, specifically, has been steadily rising since 2008. Banks that are reliant on wholesale funding, have weaker capital …

Islamic and cooperative banks such as credit unions are broadly similar in that they both share some risk with savers …. However, risk sharing goes along with ownership control in cooperatives, whilst Islamic banks share risk with borrowers and …

time-varying market valuation for such a support. With large worldwide sample of banks, we estimate the structural subsidy …