Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance: Volume 29 Issue 4

Does social reporting matter? Empirical evidence

Adel Sarea, Monsurat Ayojimi Salami

This paper aims to examine the level of Islamic social reporting (ISR) disclosure of Islamic banking in Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) countries using a checklist based on…

The ethical decisions of life insurance salespeople: the effects of interest conflicts, ethical leadership and ethical training

Li-Tzu Lai, Jui-Yun Wu, Lu-Ming Tseng

Life insurance salespeople are hired to pursue the best interests of life insurers on the one hand, the salespeople are also expected to pursue the best interests of customers on…

Identification of systemically important banks in India using SRISK

Juhi Gupta, Smita Kashiramka

Systemic risk has been a cause of concern for the bank regulatory authorities worldwide since the global financial crisis. This study aims to identify systemically important banks…

Financial sector transparency and bank interest margins: do quality of political and financial regulatory institutions matter?

Baah Aye Kusi

This study aims to examine the effect of private (PRST) and public (PUST) sector-led financial sector transparencies on bank interest margins (BIM) termed as social cost of…

The regulation of multilateral development banks: is it needed? A preliminary analysis

Laura Gianfagna, Irene Crimaldi, Davide Gallan

A difference is noted by comparing the net loans to the non-financial sector in the two sets of institutions. The post-global financial crisis (GFC), literature agrees on a…

A model to determine the need to modernise the regulation of the principle of utmost good faith

Andre Farrugia, Simon Grima

The purpose of this paper is to determine and lay out the variables that influence countries to carry out regulatory modernisation of the regulation of the principle of good faith…