Evolution of the Banking Sector in Southeast Europe — The Role and Business Strategies of Domestic Banks

Author(s):  
Per Fischer
Author(s):  
Francisco Vargas Serrano ◽  
Luis Rentería Guerrero ◽  
Gang Cheng ◽  
Panagiotis D. Zervopoulos ◽  
Arnulfo Castellanos Moreno

This chapter presents an attempt to compare the productivity of the Mexican banking sector in two different periods: the 2007-2011 period of global financial crisis and the 2003-2006 stage, which can be regarded as a relatively stable period. The purpose of this study is to disclose whether the global financial crisis affected Mexican banking productivity. Three Data Envelopment Models (DEA) are tested in order to assess whether there is a significant difference between the productivity patterns of Mexican banks before and after the financial crisis. Such models are the radial Malmquist Index, the non-radial and slacks-based model, and non-radial and non-oriented. Essentially, no significant difference of productivity indicators for both foreign and domestic banks was found. Likewise, no significant difference between the pre- and post-crisis periods was perceived, as far as productivity indicators are concerned. Therefore, the global financial crisis was effectless in banking operation.


Organizacija ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-126
Author(s):  
Mitja Stefancic

Abstract Background and Purpose: The aim of this paper is to empirically investigate the performance of different types of Italian banks before and during the recent credit crisis with an emphasis on the behaviour of cooperative banks. It is well established in theory that cooperative banks follow more conservative business strategies and care more for stakeholders in comparison to commercial banks. On this background, the paper tries to show the empirical effects of those characteristics on the cooperative bank’s performance during financial distress compared to commercial banks. In fact, the paper can prove that Italian cooperative banks were less exposed to the shocks of the crisis and showed a better performance. Methodology: In order to assess whether cooperative banks performed differently at all from commercial banks during the 2005-2012 period, return on average assets (ROAA), cost efficiency and loan quality have been investigated by means of a sample of 594 Italian banks, pooled OLS and (when possible) a fixed effects estimator. Results: Overall, Italian cooperative banks performed better than other Italian banks during the financial crisis. The quality of loans deteriorated less in these banks than in others, while no significant differences have been observed in terms of ROAA and cost efficiency between these and other banks. Conclusion: My paper provides empirical evidence for a well established theoretically derived hypothesis: Italian cooperative banks operate differently than standard commercial banks which is especially noticeable during times of crisis. The fact empirically demonstrated that different banking models have shown different reactions to the financial crisis and economic downturn has important policy implications. Due to both characteristics of cooperative banks and severe limitations in the financial policies by the Italian government during the credit crisis an ironical pattern has emerged: While Italian cooperative banks were less exposed to the shocks of the crisis, they would have been less able to adjust to them since the financial rescue program was designed primarily for commercial banks.


2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-78
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Paulet ◽  
Francesc Relano

As has been argued throughout this paper, the different way in which banks have been affected by the crisis is closely linked to their distinct business model. Consequently, the characteristic structure of the balance sheet in big banks and ethical banks is correlated with their divergent dynamic during the crisis. While the financial turmoil has left the business approach of ethical banks unchanged, as evidenced in the striking stability of their balance sheet from 2007 to 2009, the pattern shown by big banks has substantially changed over this same period. These developments would tend to suggest the need to reform the business model of big banks. There is no clear empirical evidence that a banking system with a large number of small institutions would be any more stable than the system as it currently stands. Besides, financing certain big projects would always require the existence of large international banks. Both types of financial institutions are in fact complementary. How to regulate the banking and financial sector is thus a complex and multifaceted issue. One cannot impose the same requirements on big international-oriented banks and small domestic banks. As this paper has tried to demonstrate, both have a distinct business model.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Samina Sabir ◽  
Abdul Qayyum

This paper investigates the profit efficiency of commercial banks where the banking sector has completed more than two decade of changeover from nationalization policy to privatization and restructuring policy by employing stochastic frontier true effect and true random effect models. Intermediation approach has been used to choose input and output variables of banks. A balanced panel data of 22 commercial banks of Pakistan over the period 1995-2014 have been used for the empirical analysis. The paper found that commercial banks are on average 73% profit efficient. However foreign banks report high profit efficiency score followed private domestic banks and then state owned banks. We also compared the cost and profit efficiency of commercial banks and found that commercial banks are more cost efficient than profit efficient.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (519) ◽  
pp. 204-209
Author(s):  
V. Y. Volokhata ◽  

In the context of globalization of the unstable situation in the financial market, the coronavirus pandemic, strengthened interbank competition, lack of financial resources and increasing their value, raising standards by the National Bank of Ukraine, it is imperative to improve the banking business management system by introducing innovations in the form of the use of new technologies that are adequate in view of development strategies and new banking products. That is why innovative development becomes the driving force of the efficiency of the banking sector’s activity. The article is aimed at evaluating the current state of innovative banking technologies and prospects for their development in Ukraine in the context of improving the quality of customer service. Priority directions of innovations for effective development of banking institutions and ways of their solution are defined. When analyzing trends in innovative activities of domestic banks, the major ones are identified. The most popular innovative products in the domestic banking market are listed and their characterizations are provided. A detailed analysis of normative and legislative acts is carried out, determining the prospects for the development of innovations in the banking sector in the near future and by 2025, such as: FinTech development strategy 2025; electronic payment system at the National Bank (EFT) in the 23/7 regime; service of sharing of digital documents; procedure for using a digital handwritten signature; creation and use of QR codes for credit transfers and when paying for goods and services; change of remote identification and verification of bank customers, etc.


Author(s):  
Dastan Aseinov

Instabilities in the banking sector have had an adverse effect on the economy as a whole, since the largest share in the financial system and financial intermediation in Kyrgyzstan have been captured by banking sector. Economic efficiency in banking can be viewed as a source of financial stability of banking system. Economic efficiency of the banking is more important challenge not only for shareholders and managers of banks, and also for regulation and supervision authorities, and public and potential investors. The aim of this study is to examine factors affecting the banking cost efficiency for Kyrgyz banks. It is also important to choose the appropriate approach in measurement of banking cost efficiency, since there are many different methods. In this study preferred stochastic frontier approach which assumes random error term which captures sampling, measurement and specification errors. We adopted stochastic cost frontier model proposed by Battese ve Coelli (1995) which also allow to examine investigate the impact of variables on efficiency. We used unbalanced panel data set captured 17-23 Kyrgyz commercial banks for period of 2000-2013. Obtained results suggest that capitalization, foreign ownership, credit risk, liquidity risk and currency risk have most influence on cost efficiency scores of banks calculated averagely at level of 0,766. Overall results indicate that domestic banks more cost efficient than domestic private and foreign banks. Average cost efficiency scores of domestic banks, foreign and separately public banks are 0,848; 0,649 and 0,875, respectively.


Author(s):  
Nataliia Tkachenko ◽  
Myroslava Khutorna

Introduction. At present, the use of strategic tools is no longer just a competitive advantage, but a prerequisite for the viability of any business model of the bank and to some extent may even be perceived as a compliance requirement. Regarding the latter, we mean radical changes in the requirements for the organization of the internal control system in the bank which now require banks to preventively react not only on the most expected threats and risks, but also those that could potentially occur because of the strategic plans of the banking institution. The aim. The aim of the article is to develop a methodology for forming and implementing the bank’s business strategy based on a value-oriented approach. Results. The transformation of the domestic banking sector through the prism of the determinant ‘financial stability’ has been stated. It is proved that the priority of ensuring financial stability in terms of forming business strategies of the bank is able to direct the logic of subjective thinking of individual banking institutions to achieve the optimum in relation to the quality of individual economic activity and the interests of society. We consider the transition to ‘integrated thinking’ in banking to be a fundamental prerequisite for the viability of banks’ business strategies in today’s conditions of economic transformation. The essence of the economic value of the bank’s activity and its interrelation with the market value of its business is structured. The expediency of implementing the ideas of the concept of sustainable development into the methodology of formation and implementation of business strategies of the bank as a worldview of modern banking is substantiated. Conclusions. Based on a comparative content analysis of value-oriented approaches to the formation of the bank’s business strategy and proved that the bank’s use of a multidimensional approach to the formation of its economic value in terms of business areas will encourage it to transform the business, and the formalized perimeter of bank responsibility banking, and ‘public’ license.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 121-131
Author(s):  
O. U. Avis

The subject of the research is foreign experience of bank participating with different business strategies in guaranteeing of sustainable ecological economical country development. The purpose of the work is to elaborate suggestions for contemporary credit institutions to realize projects and products with the emphasis on the environment protection, climate impact minimization and resources saving.The importance of the problem of environment protection financing is determined by the necessity of major overhaul for domestic banks to reconsider the approach to their efficiency evaluation on the basis of foreign experience to comply with the social, ecological and climatic standards in attracting resources and their allocation on markets of capital and loans. Nowadays many foreign banks widely use such standards defining creditworthiness of major corporations, small and medium businesses and deciding whether to credit them, as well as in the accounting to oversight  bodies. This approach is typical for so-called green, ecological, “alternative” banking institutions. The article demonstrates that Russian banks do not usually follow such strategies. The fact that some Russian banks realize a number of ecologically oriented projects does not influence the overall level of the sustainable ecological economic development of the country. It is concluded that it is absolutely necessary to study and adopt the foreign  experience of forming, transformation and realization of new banking business strategy in which along with economic efficiency ecological and social aspects equally matter.


Information ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Vaggelis Saprikis ◽  
Giorgos Avlogiaris ◽  
Androniki Katarachia

The banking sector has been considered as one of the primary adopters of Information and Communications Technologies. Especially during the last years, they have invested a lot into the digital transformation of their business process. Concerning their retail customers, banks realized very early the great potential abilities to provide value added self-services functions via mobile devices, mainly smartphones to them; thus, they have invested a lot into m-banking apps’ functionality. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought out different ways for financial transactions and even more mobile users have taken advantage of m-banking app services. Thus, the purpose of this empirical paper is to investigate the determinants that impact individuals on adopting or not m-banking apps. Specifically, it examines two groups of individuals, users (adopters) and non-users (non-adopters) of m-banking apps, and aims to reveal if there are differences and similarities between the factors that impact them on adopting or not this type of m-banking services. To our knowledge, this is the second scientific attempt where these two groups of individuals have been compared on this topic. The paper proposes a comprehensive conceptual model by extending Venkatech’s et al. (2003) Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) with ICT facilitators (i.e., reward and security) and ICT inhibitors (i.e., risk and anxiety), as well as the recommendation factor. However, this study intends to fill the research gap by investigating and proving for the first time the impact of social influence, reward and anxiety factors on behavioral intention, the relationship between risk and anxiety and the impact of behavioral intention on recommendation via the application of Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) statistical techniques. The results reveal a number of differences regarding the factors that impact or not these two groups towards m-banking app adoption; thus, it provides new insights regarding m-banking app adoption in a slightly examined scientific field. Thus, the study intends to assist the banking sector in better understanding their customers with the aim to formulate and apply customized m-business strategies and increase not only the adoption of m-banking apps but also the level of their further use.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Oksana V. Savchina ◽  
Ekaterina A. Sidorina ◽  
Olga V. Savchina ◽  
Petr S. Shcherbachenko

The national banking system is the driver for the national economy that unites various types of credit organizations that operate within a single monetary mechanism. The banking system is a part of the economic “organism”, whose condition determines the stable development of society. The problems that currently exist in the banking sector reflect instability of the entire economic situation in the country. The reasons are a reduction in budget support for organizations and the inability of some of them to adapt to changing external conditions. In crisis conditions, it is of particular interest to assess the financial sustainability of the activity of the largest systemically important banks in the country, which are the “circulatory system” of the national economy. This article assesses the financial stability of PJSC “Sberbank of Russia” based on an analysis of the main groups of its performance indicators for 2007-2019: capital adequacy, asset quality, management efficiency, profitability and liquidity. According to the research results, it is revealed that during the period under review, the activity of Sberbank is stable with respect to such indicators as capital adequacy, profitability, management efficiency and liquidity. Bank activity is unstable relative to asset quality indicators. The high value of the asset quality ratio characterizes the increased degree of riskiness of operations conducted. The ratio of overdue debt is above the norm, which adversely affects the financial stability of the bank. The most important achievement of Sberbank of Russia in 2019 - the launch of a new digital platform of the bank. The use of artificial intelligence technologies has already become an important driver of Sberbank business. Due to the pandemic of COVID-19, the Russian banking sector may face a number of problems. By 2021-2022, the growth is expected only by those banks that will build an effective risk management system and will be able to adapt their business strategies to the new economic realities and tougher requirements of the regulator.


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