Cross-border banking, while having the potential for a more efficient financial sector, also creates potential challenges for bank supervisors and regulators. This volume discusses topics that include: the landscape of cross-border bank activity, the resulting competitive implications, emerging challenges for prudential regulation, and more. Cross-border banking, while having the potential for a more efficient financial sector, also creates potential challenges for bank supervisors and regulators. It requires cooperation by regulatory authorities across jurisdictions and a clear delineation of authority and responsibility. That delineation is typically not present and regulatory authorities often have significantly different incentives to respond when cross-border-active banks encounter difficulties. Most of these issues have only begun to be seriously evaluated. This volume, one of the first attempts to address these issues, brings together experts and regulators from different countries. The wide range of topics discussed include: the current landscape of cross-border bank activity, the resulting competitive implications, emerging challenges for prudential regulation, safety net concerns, failure resolution issues, and the potential future evolution of international banking.

This report argues that policy reforms in micro- and macro-prudential regulation and macroeconomic policies are needed for Europe to reap the important diversification and efficiency benefits from cross-border banking, while reducing the risks stemming from large cross-border banks.Available online as pdf at: http: //www.cepr.org/pubs/books/CEPR/cross-border_banking.pd

Using data collected from pan-African banks’ (PABs), balance sheets and other sources (Orbis, Fitch), this study identifies some key patterns of cross-border investment in bank subsidiaries by key banking groups in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and discusses some of the determinants of this investment. Using a gravity model relating the annual value of a banking group’s investment in the net equity of its subsidiaries to a set of explanatory variables, the analysis finds that cross-border banking is in part driven by a search for yield, diversification, and expansion for strategic reasons.

Cross-border Electronic Banking addresses everything from the changes made to payment clearing since the deregulation of cross-border flows of funds, to the development of capital adequacy ratios and the Euro. This insightful and revealing book, backed up by extensive practical experience, will alert you to the ways that electronic banking practices affect even the simplest daily transactions, and will unveil the legal technicalities imposed by these developments.

While global uncertainty—measured by the VIX—has proven to be a robust global “push” factor of international capital flows, there has been no systematic study assessing the role of country-specific uncertainty as a key (pull and push) factor of international capital flows. This paper tries to fill this gap in the literature by examining the effects of country-specific uncertainty shocks on cross-border banking flows using the confidential Bank for International Settlements Locational Banking Statistics data. The dyadic structure of this data allows to disentangle supply and demand factors and to better identify the effect of uncertainty shocks on cross-border banking flows. The results of this analysis suggest that: (i) uncertainty is both a push and pull factor that robustly predicts a decrease in both outflows (retrenchment) and inflows (stops); (ii) global banks rebalance their lending towards safer foreign borrowers from local borrowers when facing higher uncertainty; (iii) this rebalancing occurs only towards advanced economies (flight to quality), but not emerging market economies.

Cross-border banking, while having the potential for a more efficient financial sector, also creates potential challenges for bank supervisors and regulators. It requires cooperation by regulatory authorities across jurisdictions and a clear delineation of authority and responsibility. That delineation is typically not present and regulatory authorities often have significantly different incentives to respond when cross-border-active banks encounter difficulties. Most of these issues have only begun to be seriously evaluated. This volume, one of the first attempts to address these issues, brings together experts and regulators from different countries. The wide range of topics discussed include: the current landscape of cross-border bank activity, the resulting competitive implications, emerging challenges for prudential regulation, safety net concerns, failure resolution issues, and the potential future evolution of international banking. This book has been selected for coverage in: . OCo Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings- (ISSHP- / ISI Proceedings). OCo Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP CDROM version/ISI Proceedings). Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Cross-Border Banking: Forces Driving Change and Resulting Regulatory Challenges (363 KB). Contents: Special Addresses: Cross-Border Banking: Forces Driving Change and Resulting Regulatory Challenges (M H Moskow); Cross-Border Banking and the Challenges Faced by Host Country Authorities (G Ortiz); Survey of the Current Landscape: Risks in US Bank International Exposures (N Cetorelli & L S Goldberg); Cross-Border Banking in Asia: Basel II and Other Prudential Issues (S Hohl et al.); Competitive Implications: Competitive Implications of Cross-Border Banking (S Claessens); Bank Concentration and Credit Volatility (A Micco & U Panizza); Prudential Regulation Issues: Home and Host Supervisors' Relations from a Host Supervisor's Perspective (P Bednarski & G Bielicki); Basel II Home Host Issues (P Jackson); Market Discipline Issues: Confronting Divergent Interests in Cross-Country Regulatory Arrangements (E J Kane); Market Discipline Issues Associated with Cross-Border Banking (D D Evanoff); Safety Net Issues: The Lender of Last Resort in the European Single Financial Market (G J Schinasi & P G Teixeira); Payment Systems and the Safety Net: The Role of Central Bank Money and Oversight (J Stehm); Insolvency Resolution Issues: Banking in a Changing World: Issues and Questions in the Resolution of Cross-Border Banks (M Krimminger); Bank Insolvency Procedures as Foundation for Market Discipline (A Angkinand & C Wihlborg); Policy Panel: Where to from Here?: Comments on Cross-Border Banking: Regulatory Challenges (C Calari); Designing the Home-Host Relationship to Support in Good Times and Bad: Trans-Tasman Developments (A Orr); and other papers. Readership: Professors teaching financial institutions, banking, financial regulation, or international financial markets; research economists interested in financial markets and institutions; financial regulators and policy-makers; financial consultants with internationally active customers."

International banks greatly reduced their direct cross-border and local affiliates’ lending as the global financial crisis strained balance sheets, lowered borrower demand, and changed government policies. Using bilateral, lender-borrower countrydata and controlling for credit demand, we show that reductions largely varied in line with markets’ prior assessments of banks’ vulnerabilities, with banks’ financial statement variables and lender-borrower country characteristics playing minor roles. We find evidence that moving resources within banking groups became more restricted as drivers of reductions in direct cross-border loans differ from those for local affiliates’ lending, especially for impaired banking systems. Home bias induced by government interventions, however, affected both equally.