Current initiatives to regulate bank's trading activities are aimed at sealing off the banking system from the instability of financial markets, revealed during the recent financial crisis. The main findings of bank balance sheet analysis for 5 000 European Union banks for 2000-2013 are: (1)...

Current initiatives to regulate bank's trading activities are aimed at sealing off the banking system from the instability of financial markets, revealed during the recent financial crisis. The main findings of bank balance sheet analysis for 5 000 European Union banks for 2000-2013 are: (1)...

Dieses Buch vermittelt Praktikern die erforderlichen Kenntnisse in den Bereichen Treasury, Risikomanagement, Produktmanagement, Controlling, Reporting und Compliance, mit denen sie veränderte Bankbilanzen auch während unterschiedlicher Zinszyklen aktiv steuern können. Im Zentrum stehen die...

Germany's bank-based financial system provides a high level of financial inclusion, measured by bank outreach and use of financial services. However, the most vulnerable individuals and small enterprises in Germany tend to be excluded or credit constrained. The quality of financial inclusion is...

Strong lending relationships between banks and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in the bank-based financial system of Germany. So far, they have been mainly described by the notion of a housebank and transactional features of long-term bank-customer relationships. In...

This paper examines the composition of supervisory boards of German banks for a sample of 41 large banks in the period 1999-2006. We find that the supervisory board structure reflects both outside control by shareholders and inside control by stakeholders. Most of the non-employee board members...