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The Case for Banking Regulation
This chapter offers an introduction to the theory of banking regulation. It first briefly develops on the functions of the financial system, banking...
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Block Chain for Digital Financial Inclusion Towards Reduced Inequalities
Blockchain technology has shown significant promise in institutionalizing money transfers and extending access to financial services. The potential...
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Bank Competition and Financial Sector Stability in Ghana
In spite of the various policies implemented since the Financial Sector Adjustment Programme of 1986 to liberalise Ghana’s financial sector and...
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The financial and prudential performance of Chinese banks and Fintech lenders in the era of digitalization
The years 2013 to 2019 marked an explosion in Fintech in China. We analyze the financial and prudential performance of 40 exchange-traded banks and ...
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Key Institutional Aspects of the International Financial Architecture and an Interim Assessment
The focus of this chapter are the key institutional aspects (e.g., legal status, mandate, objectives and organisation) of the international financial...
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Macroprudential Policy to Manage Systemic Risk Deriving from Financial Institutions in Mongolia
This study presents a measurement model of systemic risk in the frontier market that fully employs financial statement data. The Financial Times...
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A Comparative Analysis of the Chinese and the US Financial System and Its Regulatory Environment
The Chinese and the US financial markets represented totally different models of financial systems until the early twenty-first century. While the US...
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China’s Deepening Integration into Global Financial Markets: Lessons Learned from Its US Counterpart
China’s deeper integration into global financial markets and the lessons learned from its US counterpart includes, among others, the following...
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Swiss National Bank and Swiss Franc’s Role in Global Financial Markets
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is Switzerland’s reliable, conservative, and independent central bank. Its mandate is to ensure price stability with...
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Risk of Digitalization and Financial Freedom
This chapter is devoted to the problem of digitalization, financial freedom, and cryptocurrencies analyses and analyses of risks enclosed. It was...
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Green Finance and Fintech: Toward a More Sustainable Financial System
In the past few decades, there has been a technology revolution across the world, and along with the progression, there has been a major outcome in...
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Evolutionary Trajectory of the Opening-Up of China’s Financial Sector
From 1949 to 2019, the Chinese government succeeded in opening up its closed financial sector to the outside world through its efforts to reform the...
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Addressing the challenges of post-pandemic debt management in the consumer and SME sectors: a proposal for the roles of UK financial regulators
Regulatory actions for short-term debt-relief during the Covid-19 pandemic are facilitating a significant level of indebtedness. We argue that...
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Debt, Equity, the Optimal Financial Structure, and the Cost of Funds
Traditionally the capital structure of a firm has been defined as the book value of its common stock, its preferred stock, and its bonds, or fixed...
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Dissecting the European ESG Premium vs the US: Is It All About Non-financial Reporting?
For optimists its accelerated sustainable transition gives Europe a competitive advantage toward investors who increasingly demand financial assets....
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Crisis Regulation by Financial Intermediaries
The work of financial intermediaries in different periods and, especially, over the past decades is under scrutiny not only by investors and lenders...
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Modeling the key factors influencing the adoption of mobile financial services: an interpretive structural modeling approach
Mobile financial services are widely appreciated worldwide, but a considerable fragment of the population is resisting the technology. Therefore, the...
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FinTech and Financial Intermediation
The emergence of FinTech has come under the spotlight over the past decade, attracting the interest of policymakers and regulators surrounding the...
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Secure Financial Market Infrastructures (S/FMI)
Financial market infrastructure is the worst affected part of FinTech institutions. It witnesses most of the cyberattacks that have a devastating...