Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance
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Investment strategies of sovereign wealth funds: the potential and challenges of empirical research
Abdulaziz K. Alosaimi, Mishari M. AlfraihThe purpose of this paper is to explore and evaluate the main segments of existing empirical literature related to Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) and provide a thorough…
Impact of financial inclusion on economic growth in secular and religious countries
Peterson K. Ozili, Sok Heng Lay, Aamir Aijaz SyedEmpirical research on the relationship between financial inclusion and economic growth has neglected the influence of religion or secularism. This study aims to…
The relation between auditing and accounting timeliness in Swedish private firms
Fredrik Hartwig, Emil Hansson, Linn Nielsen, Patrik SörqvistThe purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between auditing/non-auditing and accounting timeliness among Swedish private firms.
Assessing the financial and informational role of supervisory stress tests: EU-wide 2018 stress test vis-à-vis EU-wide 2021 stress test
Dimitrios Karakostas, Ioannis Tsakalos, Athanasios FassasThe supervisory stress test evaluates the capital adequacy and profit-generation capacity of systemic banking institutions under baseline and adverse macroeconomic…
Banking sector reforms in Nigeria: an empirical appraisal
Ibrahim Alley, Halima Hassan, Ahmad Wali, Fauziyah SuleimanThis paper provides evidence that the banking sector reforms of 2004 and 2009 enhanced prudential performance of the banking industry and financial system stability in Nigeria.
Compliance and governance: evidence from financial institutions in Taiwan
Shao-Huai Liang, Hsuan-Chu Lin, Hui-Yu HsiaoThe purpose of this study is to investigate whether financial institutions, which are highly regulated entities, experience fewer sanctions and have lower penalties…
Investigating the disclosure compliance of Basel III in emerging markets: a comparative study between UAE and Indian banks
Suja Sarah Thomas, Manish Bansal, Ibrahim Elsiddig AhmedThis study aims at investigating banks’ compliance with the disclosure requirements of Basel III in two emerging market economies, namely, the United Arab Emirates (UAE…
Risk management practices and credit risk of the significantly supervised European banks
Anum Qureshi, Eric LamarqueThis paper aims to examine the influence of risk management (RM) practices on the credit risk of significantly supervised European banks.
Consumer adoption intention toward FinTech services in a bank-based financial system in Vietnam
Hang Thi Ngo, Le Thi Hoai NguyenThis study aims to identify the key factors driving consumer adoption attention toward FinTech services in a bank-based financial system to lay a firm ground for further…
Bank-specific factors and credit risk: evidence from Italian banks in different local markets
Cristian Barra, Nazzareno RuggieroUsing bank-level data over the 1994–2015 period, the authors aim to investigate the role of bank-specific factors on credit risk in Italy by considering two different…
Global financial crisis, international capital requirement and bank financial stability: an international evidence
Baah Aye Kusi, Joseph Ato Forson, Eunice Adu-Darko, Elikplimi AgbloyorFinancial crises (FC) remain a global threat to the financial stability of financial institutions and international bank regulatory capital requirement (IBRCR) by the…
Does the deployment of algorithms combined with direct electronic access increase conduct risk? Evidence from the LME
Alexander Conrad CulleyThe purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of two regulatory initiatives in developing awareness of conduct risk associated with algorithmic and…
The regulation of RegTech and SupTech in finance: ensuring consistency in principle and in practice
Jonathan McCarthyThe paper’s aim is to consider how best to formulate sturdy regulatory frameworks for RegTech and SupTech. The paper appraises how key features of EU and UK regulatory and…
Bank regulation and risk-taking in sub-Sahara Africa
Sopani Gondwe, Tendai Gwatidzo, Nyasha MahonyeIn a bid to enhance the stability of banks, supervisory authorities in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) have also adopted international bank regulatory standards based on the Basel…
Jurisdictional arbitrage: combatting an inevitable by-product of cryptoasset regulation
Sideris DraganidisThis paper aims to provide an overview of different issues related to jurisdictional arbitrage found in general regulatory arbitrage literature and their projection to the…
Institutional quality, macroeconomic uncertainty and efficiency of financial institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Rexford Abaidoo, Elvis Kwame AgyapongThis paper evaluates how institutions of governance and macroeconomic uncertainty influence efficiency of financial institutions in the subregion of Sub-Saharan Africa…
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