Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance: Volume 21 Issue 3

Information infrastructure for systemic regulation

Sharada Alampalli

The near‐collapse of the world's financial system in 2008 brought into focus significant limitations in the data and analysis tools available to mitigate potential risks across…

Compliance function in Italian banks: organizational issues

Giuliana Birindelli, Paola Ferretti

The authors' paper aims to examine the organizational issues that come from the recent establishment of the compliance function in Italian banks.

Macro and micro prudential regulatory failures between banks in the United Kingdom and Australia 2004‐2009

Alison Lui

This paper compares the performance of the big four UK banks and four Australian banks between 2004‐2009. The banks are chosen according to the total assets as listed in The Banker…

The decline in abandoned corporate acquisitions in the UK: regulatory influences

Michael McCann

Abandoned acquisitions represent a significant aspect of acquisition activity. Despite this, little analysis of aggregate abandoned acquisition activity has been conducted. This…

Concentration and efficiency in the Vietnamese banking system between 1999 and 2009: A structural model approach

Thao Ngoc Nguyen, Chris Stewart

The purpose of this paper is to examine the degree of concentration and efficiency in the Vietnamese banking system using the structural model.

Capital requirements for market risks: Value‐at‐risk models and stressed‐VaR after the financial crisis

Alberto Burchi

The financial crisis has led the Basel Committee to improve the system of capital requirements for market risks. This paper aims to investigate the effects of different models to…