Our study is inserted in the thematic area dedicated, during recent years, to the research on central banks’ response to financial crisis. The global financial crisis has outlined a series of weaknesses located at regulatory and supervisory activities’ level, causing major central banks to...

The financial turmoil that disrupted the functioning of the banking systems across EU has revived the international debates related to developing proper mechanisms for the orderly recovery and resolution of failing banks. The paper provides an insight into the regulatory initiatives launched by...

Our paper aims to provide a response to a challenge, namely quantifying the efficiency and competition in the Romanian banking system, as we have noted the absence of baseline studies on this topic. Correlated with bank profitability, the two concepts provide a full picture of the bank and...

In this paper we proposed an analysis of the financial crisis impact on the procedures for management of loan portfolios in several banking systems. Despite ample liquidity injection programs implemented by major central banks and government actions, credit risk remains a key challenge of the...

The regulation of Romanian banking system credit activity is the subject of an ample adjusting process, its final objective being the elaboration of a rigorous, and in the same time flexible legal framework, individualized for each credit institution. Therefore, it is desired to keep management...

Worldwide governments perform considerable financial efforts to support financial sector and the re-launch of lending. The mechanisms vary from the guarantee and purchase of troubled assets till injecting liquidity, by buying securities issued in order to increase financial institutions' equity....

The European Commission's proposal launched on September 12, 2012 for conferring the European Central Bank extended powers in the field of Euro zone banking supervision has become a hotly debated topic across EU member states. Until now, there is still strong resilience of the EU countries...

The purpose of this paper is to mark the trend of IPOs in the current economic environment, globally and in Romania by measuring the return of the first day of trading and the wealth transferred to the shareholders and identifying and analyzing the alternatives available and the prospects of...

Strengthening markets is a defining process of globalization and financial deregulation which reconfigured stock exchange in the world. Choosing consolidated financial architecture allows optimization of market liquidity. Thus, cost of capital for issuers is even lower as the liquidity of the...

The current financial crisis has boosted the efforts of international financial institutions to strengthen collaboration in the field of banking supervision, with a particular focus on macro prudential supervision. One of the stated objectives is the creation of a warning system, in which...