Qualitative Research in Financial Markets: Volume 14 Issue 1

Icarus of the 21st century: bond/monoline insurance

Dulani Jayasuriya Daluwathumullagamage

The business model of monoline insurers is to guarantee payments of debt issues in case of defaults by the issuer. Although sparse attention is given to monolines in literature…

Accounting for investor sentiment in news and disclosures

Prajwal Eachempati, Praveen Ranjan Srivastava

This study aims to develop two sentiment indices sourced from news stories and corporate disclosures of the firms in the National Stock Exchange NIFTY 50 Index by extracting…

Green sukuk – Malaysia surviving the bumpy road: performance, challenges and reconciled issuance framework

J.S. Keshminder, Mohammad Syafiq Abdullah, Marina Mardi

Green sukuk is a tool to finance climate change which has garnered considerable attention. However, having only recently come into existence has its own set of challenges for this…

The difference of Shariah risk potential and Shariah risk in personal financing products based on tawarruq munazzam contracts practised in Malaysia

Fathullah Asni

This paper aims to investigate the differences in the practice of tawarruq munazzam contracts based on personal financing products. The researcher will then analyse the said…

Financial internationalization of emerging country multinationals: evidence from India

Mariam Jamaleh, Abha Shukla

Financial internationalization is of particular importance to emerging country firms. Its significance arises from the impact of institutional void and related agency problems…

Unlocking the black box of private impact investors

Sarah Louise Carroux, Timo Busch, Falko Paetzold

This paper aims to empirically describe the general characteristics and the investment behavior of high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) who pursue impact investing.

Interpreting banks’ sustainability initiatives as reputational risk management and mechanisms for coping, re-embedding and rebuilding societal trust

Mohamed Saeudy, Jill Atkins, Elisabetta A.V. Barone

This paper aims to contribute to a growing literature in sustainable and green banking by exploring the views of senior banking representatives towards the implementation of…

A qualitative phenomenological exploration of social mood and investors’ risk tolerance in an emerging economy

Humaira Asad, Iqra Toqeer, Khalid Mahmood

The authors design a theoretical perspective that explores how different phases of social mood influence financial risk tolerance (FRT) among investors. Risk is involved in almost…