The aim of this article is to identify systemically important banks on a European scale, in accordance with the criteria proposed by the supervisory authorities. In this study we discuss the analytical framework for identifying and benchmarking systemically important financial institutions. An...

Employing data on Indian banks for 1992-2012, the article examines the impact of macroprudential measures on bank performance. First, it finds that state-owned banks tend to have lower profitability and soundness than their private counterparts. Next, it tests whether such differentials between...

The article offers the indicator of the general level of integration (quantitative estimation of convergence) of the banking, insurance and reinsurance markets as a result of integration processes by identifying the numerical values of this indicator with subsequent qualitative interpretation on...

The current crisis has revealed the weaknesses of the global financial in general and its banking system in particular, put forward a requirement for assessing the effectiveness and stability of the banking sectors across countries. Based on available data from 64 countries over the world, the...

This study has uniquely established that financing women though Self Help Groups has a significant role in empowering women, which is a smart economics indeed in achieving the objective of economic development of the weaker sections. The findings of this study establish using the statistical...

The research is devoted to the development of scientific and methodological basis and practical recommendations for banking performance evaluation and management. Summary of the chronology of the banking in Ukraine allowed distinguishing three phases of its development, necessity of bank...

What is the 99% and why does it exist? In this paper an attempt is made to explain why socio-economic unrest remains a modern problem. An effort has to be made to understand the origins of strife in systemic design of modern economics. Without this knowledge it may not be possible to fix the...

This paper analyses key documents of Basel Committee which concern operational risk governance and identifies the interconnectedness between risk source, type of the event leading to losses, loss type and its distribution by business lines. The comparative characteristic of the main operational...

Banks in Slovakia are under a strong influence of information technologies. These technologies are redesigning the product as well as the organizational structure. Strategies must also adapt to the information technologies and to their influence on the business environment. Companies often...

The dominance of foreign capital in banking sector in the CEE countries created vulnerabilities that have been a contributing cause of recent financial crisis in the region. The question is whether the corporate governance structure of banks seemed to constrain or rather stimulate the potential...