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Trade Finance Gap: Why Credit Risk Mitigants Are Not Applied

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Banks play a vital role in global trade. However, an existing gap persists in fulfilling the demand for trade finance transactions, predominantly in developing countries with high credit and country risks. These risks can be hedged with credit risk mitigants (CRMs).
Elvira Bobillo‐Carballo, Alfredo Arahuetes García   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Addressing CSR Red Flags as a Strategic Response to Economic Policy Uncertainty

Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates whether companies strategically address corporate social responsibility (CSR) red flags to minimise their risks during periods of high economic policy uncertainty (EPU). We observe increased investment in social and environmental concerns amid EPU, particularly amongst firms with numerous institutional investors, those ...
Yunhao Dai, Weiqiang Tan, Daifei (Troy) Yao   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factoring contract in the law of the Republic of Serbia [PDF]

Pravni Zapisi, 2014
Factoring contract in the law of the Republic of Serbia is designated, formal, obligatory for both contract parties, burdening, commutative by its approach, with durable benefits and intuitu personae contract, whereby one contract party sells to other ...
Marković Velisav
doaj  

Risk Mutualization in Central Clearing: An Answer to the Cross-Guarantee Phenomenon from the Financial Stability Viewpoint

Risks, 2021
Central counterparties’ (CCPs) role is to take over the counterparty risk during trading. To fulfill its role, a CCP needs to operate a multi-level guarantee system that can absorb losses of clearing members’ defaults.
Melinda Friesz, Kira Muratov-Szabó, Andrea Prepuk, Kata Váradi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the influence of ESG washing on bank reputational exposure: A cross‐country analysis

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
Abstract The study investigates the effects of ESG washing on banks' reputational exposure. We define ESG washing as a disparity between a bank's environmental and social disclosure level and the practical implementation of the relative measures. The analysis involves an international sample of 120 banks operating across 35 countries from 2014 to 2020.
Valeria Venturelli, Alessia Pedrazzoli, Daniela Pennetta, Gennaro De Novellis   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of the Counterparty’s Environmental Reliability

Учёт. Анализ. Аудит
Today’s market shows increasing competition within consulting and audit services. Audit firms seek to expand the range of services provided and, considering the business environment, develop new areas for consulting activities.
S. М. Bychkova, O. V. Shvets
doaj   +1 more source

How Does Shareholding by Passive Institutional Investors Impact the Corporate Governance of European Firms?

Corporate Governance: An International Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue The passive investment (PI) trend, characterized by the increasing inflow of investment funds into PI strategies, has resulted in an increase in the share of corporate ownership held via investments in PI strategies. This paper investigates this trend's consequential impact on European companies' corporate governance ...
Irina Bevza, Martha O’Hagan Luff
wiley   +1 more source

Systemic Risk in the European Union: A Network Approach to Banks’ Sovereign Debt Exposures

International Journal of Financial Studies, 2015
This paper draws on network theory to investigate European banks’ sovereign debt exposures. Banks’ holdings of sovereign debt build a network of financial linkages with European countries that exhibits a long-tail distribution of node degrees.
Annika Westphal
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Goodbye connections, hello Bagehot: democratization, lender of last resort independence and bank failures in Spain in 1931

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Did democratization reduce the likelihood of politically connected bank bailouts in the past? What role did private central banks play as independent lenders of last resort? To answer these questions, this article provides new detailed archival evidence on the causes of bank failures in Spain in July 1931.
Enrique Jorge‐Sotelo
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating Hedge Fund Leverage: A Three‐Step Estimation Protocol

Financial Markets, Institutions &Instruments, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Utilizing a micro‐level hedge fund dataset, we propose a methodology for estimating hedge fund leverage. Initially, we perform a Principal Component Analysis on a set of 49 risk factors for dimension deduction purposes. After acquiring 10 Principal Components, we deploy the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator regression (Lasso) per
Ariston Karagiorgis, Konstantinos Drakos
wiley   +1 more source