The growing deleveraging of European banking system is a given. Recent managerial and supervisory concerns concentrate on credit risk by means of consistent allowances and impairments. The analysis is aimed at verifying this focus perception and to verify as well if the supervisory suasion can...

This paper contributes to prior literature and to the current debate concerning recent revisions of the regulatory approach to measuring bank exposure to interest rate risk in the banking book by focusing on assessment of the appropriate amount of capital banks should set aside against this...

Appropriate methodologies to assess interest rate risk contribute to the sound management of a credit institution and, given the systemic nature of this risk, help to pursue global financial stability. The regulatory models to estimate a bank's exposure to interest rate risk in the banking book...