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- Foreign Banks in Emerging Market Crises
- Foreign banks have greatly increased their presence in emerging market countries in recent years. This paper compares the performance of domestic banks and a long-established group of foreign banks. The paper finds that the sharpest differences are between banks mainly active in Asia including all domestic and some foreign banks...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- The Role of Foreign Banks in Emerging Markets
- This paper studies issues related to the increased role of foreign banks, for a large sample of emerging markets. First, it measures the extent of the increase in foreign participation in some key emerging market banking systems. Second, it presents an empirical analysis of which factors have been most important...
- White papers 2001-04-06
- Has Foreign Bank Entry Led to Sounder Banks in Latin America?
- Policymakers continue to debate the merits of opening emerging market financial sectors to foreign ownership. A comparison of the 1995-2000 performance of foreign and domestic banks in select Latin American countries reveals that while foreign banks differed little from their domestic counterparts in overall financial condition, they showed more robust...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- The Banking Industry in the Emerging Market Economies: Competition, Consolidation and Systemic Stability
- This paper first reviews the main forces for change in the emerging economies, banking industry, and then analyses how these forces are affecting the structure of their banking systems through privatizations, domestic mergers and entry of foreign banks. The paper informs that these structural changes raise a number of microeconomic...
- White papers 2001-08-01
- Foreign Bank Supervision and Challenges to Emerging Market Supervisors
- The increased presence of foreign banks in a country's domestic banking system necessitates the development of effective cross-border prudential supervision where the consolidated supervision is the essential element. This paper presents foreign bank supervision in terms of division of responsibilities between the home and host countries, consolidated supervision, quality of...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- The Increased Role of Foreign Bank Entry in Emerging Markets
- The past decade has seen a transformation of the role of foreign banks in emerging markets. The greater scale and changing character of foreign participation in banking systems raise many questions: about the impact on the efficiency of financial institutions; about the macroeconomic effects on aggregate lending and on the...
- White papers 2005-06-03
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- The Value of Financial Intermediaries: Empirical Evidence From Syndicated Loans to Emerging Market Borrowers
- Empirical estimates of the benefit of financial intermediation are constructed by examining the role played by local banks in facilitating syndicated loans to borrowers in emerging market countries. Assuming that local banks possess a superior monitoring ability, the market is ideal for studying the value of intermediation since cross-border lending...
- White papers 2004-09-29
- Consolidation and Market Structure in Emerging Market Banking Systems
- This paper examines the evolution of market structure in emerging market banking systems during the 1990s. While significant bank consolidation has been taking place in these countries, reflected in a sharp decline in the number of banks, this process has not systematically been associated with increased concentration as measured by...
- White papers 2002-11-01
- Direct Investment in Emerging Market Economies: The Experience of Canadian Banks
- This note provides a short summary of some interviews that were held earlier In 2003 with two Canadian commercial banks - the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce CIBC and the Bank of Nova Scotia Scotia. This note provides background information on the direct investment activities of Canadian banks, and then...
- White papers 2003-06-16
- Financial Regulation and Supervision after the Crisis: The Role of the Federal Reserve
- At the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 54th Economic Conference, Chatham, MassachusettsOctober 23, 2009 The theme of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Economic Conference this year–reevaluating regulatory, supervisory, and central banking policies in the wake of the crisis–is certainly timely. Not much more than a year ago, we and...
- News items 2009-10-23
- Santander Brazil IPO Raises Question: Are Banks Invested In Emerging Markets For Long Haul?
- In Rio De Janeiro, the vibrant carnival for which the city is best known comes once every January. So far in October, however, there has been a samba dance of a financial sort, as the city secured its place as host for the 2016 Olympic games, and a multi-billion dollar...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- When Is U.S. Bank Lending to Emerging Markets Volatile?
- Using bank-specific data on U.S. bank claims on individual foreign countries since the mid-1980s, this paper 1) characterizes the size and portfolio diversification patterns of the U.S. banks engaging in foreign lending and 2) econometrically explores the determinants of fluctuations in U.S. bank claims on a broad set of countries....
- White papers 2001-03-08
- Does Foreign Ownership Contribute to Sounder Banks in Emerging Markets? The Latin American Experience
- Foreign bank entrants into emerging markets are usually thought to improve the condition and performance of acquired institutions, and more generally to enhance local financial stability. The paper uses bank-specific data for a range of Latin American countries. Across the seven largest countries, the paper finds that the financial strength...
- White papers 2001-05-29
- JORDAN: CAPITAL INTELLIGENCE UPGRADES JORDAN KUWAIT BANK.(foreign currency ratings)(Brief Article)
- According to "Jordan Times", Capital Intelligence, the international emerging market rating agency, has upgraded Jordan Kuwait Bank's JKB long- and short-term foreign currency ratings to BB and B respectively, following the recent upgrade in Jordan's foreign currency ratings. The assigned ratings are set at the ...
- Research articles 2003-10-15
- The Role of Local Banks in Promoting External Finance: A Study of Syndicated Lending to Emerging Market Borrowers
- The paper studies the syndicated loans to borrowers from emerging markets, comparing loans funded partially by local banks with loans funded entirely by foreign banks. Controlling for the endogeneity of local bank participation, it finds that local banks are associated with loans that are larger, longer, cheaper, and less frequently...
- White papers 2004-01-23
- On investments in emerging markets
- "Investment flowing into emerging markets touched a fresh high last year, according to a new report from the World Bank, but concerns persist about the stability of banks in certain developing countries. A series of mergers and acquisitions in 2006 helped push foreign direct investment in developing countries to a...
- Research articles 2007-06-22
- This Bull Market Has Legs
- In my view, the markets are in the early stages of a significant rally that could last for several months. Although the economy may grapple with debt-strapped consumers and other factors that led to last year's collapse, significant market rallies have historically taken place during times of economic rebuilding. While...
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- A Note on Banking FDI in Emerging Markets: Literature Review and Evidence From M&A Data
- The latter half of the 1990s saw a surge in foreign direct investment in emerging market economy EME banking sectors. The majority of this was driven by a spate of mergers and acquisitions between developed country institutions and EME banks. The pace and intensity of these developments has attracted much...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- Monetary Rules For Emerging Market Economies
- This paper compares the performance of a currency board, inflation targeting, and dollarization in a small, open developing economy with a liberalized capital account. It focuses on the transmission of shocks to currency and country risk premia and on the role of fluctuations in premia in the propagation of other...
- White papers 2002-02-01
- Waters Corporation Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. At this time we are ready for the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question, Quintin Lai, Robert W. Baird; your line is open. Quintin Lai - Baird Good morning, congratulations on a nice quarter. Douglas A. Berthiaume - President, Chairman...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-23
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