Article history: Received 5 April 2007 Received in revised form 3 March 2008 Accepted 17 April 2008 Available online 25 April 2008 There has been a considerable expansion of the volume of syndicated loans in emerging markets in the recent years. We provide the first analysis of the determinants of the decision of banks to syndicate a loan on a sample of loan facilities from 50 emerging countrie...

Sharia banking's characteristic, which underpins its activities on sharia principles, requires a customer protection mechanism in accordance with characteristics, including deposit insurance. This study aims to determine the readiness of banking regulations insurance Indonesia strengthen for Banking Customers. article is normative juridical research that applies an analytical descriptive approa...

Traditional banking is built on four pillars: SME lending, access to public liquidity, deposit insurance, and prudential supervision. This vision has been shattered by repeated bailouts of shadow financial institutions. This paper puts “special depositors and borrowers” at the core of the analysis, provides a rationale for the covariation yielding the quadrilogy, and analyzes how prudential reg...

I would like to focus on two issues: capital inflows, which is a very relevant issue for emerging market economies, and the recent agreement of the Basel Committee on Banking Regulation. For this purpose I will start with a brief review of some facts regarding capital inflows. Then I will discuss the policy toolkit to deal with them. I will take a look from a macro perspective and then from the...

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I n recent years, important changes to the U.S. banking regulatory framework have been introduced that were expected to affect the size distribution of banks. These changes in regulation had a clear objective: to allow for a higher degree of horizontal and vertical integration in the banking industry. While horizontal integration takes place when different firms that are producing the same prod...

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