Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance: Volume 17 Issue 2

Financial supervision in the EU: is there convergence in the national architectures?

Donato Masciandaro, Maria Nieto, Marc Quintyn

The purpose of this paper is to review current trends in reforms of the supervisory architecture in European Union (EU) countries.

How small are the banking sectors in central and Eastern European countries really?

Valeriya Dinger, Jürgen von Hagen

The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of the size of the banking sectors in central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. The banking sectors' ability is focused to…

Competition issues in European banking

Barbara Casu, Claudia Girardone

The purpose of this paper is to assess the outcome of European Union (EU) deregulation and competition policies on the competitive conditions of the main EU banking markets.

Specialization versus diversification in venture capital investing

James R. Bartkus, M. Kabir Hassan

Modern portfolio theory demonstrates that a well‐diversified portfolio will minimize unsystematic risk. It may be impractical to achieve a well‐diversified portfolio of venture…

A note on ratings of international banks

Roman Matousek, Chris Stewart

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the quantitative determinants of individual ratings of commercial banks (as conducted by Fitch Ratings).

Measuring and regulating extreme risk

Ulf Nielsson

The purpose of this paper is to discuss two important extensions to the well‐known value‐at‐risk (VaR) methodology, namely extreme value theory (EVT) and expected shortfall (ES)…

High Court ruling on recoverability of claimants' losses arising from unauthorised insurance activity

Joanna Gray

The purpose of this paper is to report and comment on the High Court ruling on recoverability of claimants' losses arising from unauthorised insurance activity.

Trends in European banking

Jens Hagendorff