Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the interface between the banking and insurance sectors. Using capital market data, the paper aims to discover any significant equity returns around the announcement date of these bank‐insurance interfaces. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the interface between the banking and insurance sectors. Using capital market data, the paper aims to discover any significant equity returns around the announcement date of these bank-insurance interfaces. Design/methodology/approach –...

The risk management arena engulfs a wide breadth of issues ranging from hedging instruments to risk strategies for multinational giants, and from natural to man-made disasters across the world. When newly developed economies with non-traditional corporate structures come on stage, then the risk...

The European market of banks and insurance companies has traditionally no exact boundaries between insurance and banking activities. Such business arena poses distinctive challenges to both banking and insurance industries. The paper statistically evaluates the feasibility of a hybrid portfolio...