Search
Search Results
-
Financial intermediation in banks and the key role of intellectual capital: new analysis from an emerging market
Against the backdrop of global challenges and unprecedented events, intellectual capital is seen as the key to opening doors for banks to achieve...
-
Not all shadow banking is bad! Evidence from credit intermediation of non-financial Chinese firms
Using data from 2009 to 2016 data, we investigate the relation between leverage and investment in listed firms in China against the backdrop of...
-
Malaysia’s Sustainable Banking Regulatory Framework: Value-Based Intermediation and Climate Change Principle-Based Taxonomy
In 2017, in support of sustainable development, Bank Negara Malaysia issued the Strategy Paper on Value-based Intermediation (VBI) to achieve...
-
Contemporaneous financial intermediation
Digital innovations in banking and payments recently have garnered a great deal of attention. Specifically, distributed ledger technology (DLT) has...
-
Choosing the highest annuity payout: the role of intermediation and firm reputation
In this paper, we analyse retirees’ decision-making from the different bids made available by life insurance companies in the Chilean annuity market....
-
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...
-
Introduction
This chapter introduces the terminology used in this book with a specific focus on the financial system. For this, four different perspectives,...
-
The Pillars: Issuers and Investors in Search of Growth and Profit
The heart of the financial markets is the meeting between issuers and investors. This is known as direct intermediation, where the same instrument is...
-
A History of Banks From the Knights Templar to the Present Era
This book provides an overview of monetary history from the perspectives of the financial intermediaries who shaped it. Starting from the Knights...
-
Tokenised Crowdfunding: What Regulatory Forecast?
Decentralised finance (DeFi) is the latest offspring of the ever-increasing digitisation of society and the economy. It leverages on technological...
-
Intermediaries’ Model in Banking and Finance and the Treatment of Fintech in the European Union: A Critical Approach
Intermediation has become a major phenomenon. Major companies are acting as intermediaries between businesses and clients. European financial and...
-
Final Remarks
The contributions included in this co-edited book provide a comprehensive overview of the most critical issues relating to commercial banking and...
-
Financial Intermediation: A Further Analysis
Securitization is most likely the most visible part of the shadow banking industry. That is mostly due to its alleged involvement of the 2007–2009...
-
Bank Risk and Firm Investment: Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Is higher bank risk-taking associated with more firm investment? Combining firm- and bank-level data, we examine the relation between bank risk and...
-
Deposit insurance and reinsurance
We study the consequences and optimal design of bank deposit insurance and reinsurance in a general equilibrium setting. The model involves two...
-
The Financial System: The European Union Perspective
This chapter provides a general overview on the role and functioning of the financial system, with a specific focus on the EU context. In particular,...
-
The Changing Role of Banks in the Financial System: Social Versus Conventional Banks
Social banks have emerged as a new group of banks that call themselves as “alternative”, “ethical”, “sustainable”, and “value-based”. Their small...
-
Concluding Remarks
This book analyzes the credit landscape in Europe, namely the traditional credit intermediation through credit institutions and the alternative one,...
-
Decentralized Finance The Impact of Blockchain-Based Financial Innovations on Entrepreneurship
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of decentralized finance (DF) and discusses how entrepreneurs can leverage...
-
Challenges for P2P Lending Business Models and Banks
Chapter 3 investigates the principal challenges in such business models. Challenges to be considered, but not limited to, would be regulatory,...