Bank BTPN’s Financial Performance Before and After Jenius as a Digital Banking Product

Bank Relationships and Small Firms’ Financial Performance

We examine the relationship between the number of bank relationships and firms’ performance, evaluating possible differential effects related to firms’ size. Our sample of firms from Italy includes many small firms, 99 percent of which are not listed and for which bank debt is a major source of financing. In the sample, 4 percent of the firms have a single bank relationship, and 66 percent of t...

Determinants of Financial Performance in Chinese Banking

Financial policies on firm performance: The U.S. insurance industry before and after the global financial crisis

a r t i c l e i n f o In this study, the advanced panel threshold regression model was used to test whether a marginal threshold value representing optimal financial decisions exists respective to the holding ratio of free cash flow, the debt ratio, and the dividend payout ratio determined by the U.S. life and property–casualty insurance industry. The results indicated that an optimal financial...

Evaluating the financial performance of bank branches

In this paper we evaluate the financial performance of virtually all of the branch offices of a large European savings bank for a recent six-month accounting period. We employ a complementary pair of nonparametric techniques to evaluate their financial performance, in terms of their ability to conserve on the expenses they incur in the process of building their customer bases and providing cust...

Banking Sector Reforms and Commercial Bank Performance in China

The Chinese banking sector has gone through a consistent process of the reform which includes liberalization of the business to foreign banks, privatization and listing bank shares, allowing diversifications into intermediary business beyond the traditional deposit and loan activities. In the mean time, the changing structures of the banking sector and the favourable economic condition in the r...