Suppose a bank has a database of people’s details and their credit rating. These details would probably be the person’s financial characteristics such as how much they earn, whether they own or rent a house, and so on, and would be used to calculate the person’s credit rating. However, the process for calculating the credit rating from the person’s details is quite expensive, so the bank would ...

Financial services firms everywhere have undergone major changes over the last several decades. These firms include retail commercial banks, investment banks, insurance companies, mutual fund companies, securities brokers, and credit card companies. The decade of the nineties has witnessed a significant number of mergers among these firms worldwide. Some mergers were intended to achieve economi...

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This paper studies the impact of foreign bank entry on domestic firms’ access to bank credit using a within-country staggered geographic variation in the policy of foreign bank lending in China. The paper finds that after foreign bank entry profitable firms use more long-term bank loans; whereas firms with higher value of potential collateral do not. It also finds that non-state-owned firms bec...

Information asymmetries can severely limit cross-border border expansion of banks. When a bank enters a new market, it has incomplete information about potential new clients. Such asymmetries are reduced by credit registers, which distribute financial data on bank clients. We investigate the interaction of credit registers and bank entry modes (in form of branching and M&A) by using a new set o...

The main purpose of this study is to examine the determinants of the corporate choice between different forms of debt financing. By analyzing the most comprehensive sample of U.S. corporate debt issues to date, I find that firms that issue 144A debt have significantly lower credit quality and higher information asymmetry than firms that issue traditional non-bank private debt. Further, the stud...

The aim of this paper is to present a model based on Multilayer perceptron neural networks to recognize bad or good credit customers. Credit risk is one of the major problems in banking sector. Banks are faced with credit Risk while doing their tasks. Credit risk is the probability of non-repayment of bank loan granted to lenders. Decreasing Credit Risk, banks may perform better duties and resp...