scholarly journals ACTIVITIES OF THE NATIONAL BANK OF UKRAINE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC OUTBREAK

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Danik ◽  
Kateryna Lohachova ◽  
Inna Grebenuk
Keyword(s):  
Banking Sector ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
National Bank ◽  
The Stability ◽  
As Stress ◽  
The Impact

The article considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the regulatory activities of the National Bank of Ukraine. The interdependence of the banking and economic systems and the impact of their inefficient interaction on banking in general and each individual commercial bank in particular are analyzed. It is established that before the onset of the pandemic crisis in the world, the banking system of Ukraine was characterized as stress-resistant, taking into account the reforms of liquidity and recapitalization. The stability of the banking system is affected by economic pressures caused by the spread of coronavirus and lower oil prices. According to one of the world’s three reputable rating agencies, Fitch Ratings, the level of pressure on banks depends on the depth and duration of the economic downturn, specific risks to the national economy and external finances (for example, tourism revenues or remittances), national government measures and individual banks. The implementation of anti-crisis measures developed by the National Bank of Ukraine as tools to increase financial and economic security in the country as a whole, and financial institutions in terms of increasing banking risks caused by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The spread of this infection also has negative consequences for the economy and financial system of Ukraine. Therefore, the National Bank of Ukraine has introduced a system of anti-crisis measures during quarantine in the country. The NBU covers information about events in the economy through its own website, social media pages, and the media. These measures are implemented to mitigate the impact of coronavirus disease on citizens and businesses, and to ensure the quality and smooth operation of the financial system. The banking system continues to operate, without imposing any restrictions on the operation of banks and their operations. As a result of the study, a system of measures of national support for the banking sector by the National Bank of Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund was proposed through the prism of a number of guidelines and regulatory points, which are supporting instruments rather than control and regulatory ones.

scholarly journals FINANCIAL MONITORING AS A TOOL DESHADOWING BANKING SYSTEM

2019 ◽  
pp. 59-65
Author(s):  
A. Bukhtiarova ◽  
O. Tietierieva
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Money Laundering ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Shadow Economy ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
The State ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Financial Monitoring ◽  
The Impact

Today, the phenomenon of the shadow economy is widespread and has negative consequences for the economic development of the countries of the world. It is known that many factors influence the level of the shadow economy and one of these factors is money laundering. The purpose of the article is to analyze the primary and state financial monitoring as a tool for the unshadowing of the Ukrainian banking system. At the end of 2018, the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine is setting the level of the shadow economy at 30% of official GDP, the lowest in the last ten years. The authors investigate the impact of financial monitoring on the level of the shadow economy, identifying major threats to the country's economic security and analyzing the proportion of reports of suspicious transactions from banks in the overall message structure. It is found that about 99% of all reports to the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine about suspected financial transactions come from banks. The essence of the primary financial monitoring, its main shortcomings are revealed, namely the imperfection of the legislative framework, the lack of highly qualified employees in the field of financial monitoring and the formation of clear requirements for the banks as the subjects of the primary financial monitoring. The contents of the most common money laundering schemes through the banking sector are disclosed, such as withdrawal of capital abroad, corruption schemes, schemes involving individuals, fraudulent transactions within the bank, counterfeiting of documents on the value of collateral or granting it, and falsification of the company's decision to obtain a loan. The article also reflects the main violations of banks in the field of financial monitoring for the years 2018-2019, analyzes the shortcomings of the state financial monitoring and proposes to improve the effectiveness of financial monitoring in banks in order to shade the banking sector. Keywords: unshadowing, banks, banking system, financial monitoring, money laundering.

scholarly journals Determinants of Polish financial stability in 2017-2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
Kinga Górska ◽  
Karolina Krzemińska
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Financial System ◽  
National Bank ◽  
The Stability

This article seeks to present the essentials of financial stability and to analyse and evaluate selected determinants of stability Poland’s financial system in the years 2017–2018. The study comprises exemplary ratios or indicators that are used in measuring the stability of a financial system. The proposed analysis is confined to selected groups of stability ratios/indicators that are pertinent to the macroeconomic situation, the situation in financial markets, and the situation of the banking sector. The analysis is based upon the data and statistics provided in the reports of the National Bank of Poland, available by 31st November 2018.

scholarly journals Формирование среды реализации цифровых инициатив сотрудников банка

2019 ◽  
pp. 48-54
Author(s):  
Тарас Гриценко ◽  
Жанна Передера ◽  
Анна Теряева
Keyword(s):  
Banking Sector ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
New Professionals ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Banking Business ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact

В работе рассматривается возможность формирования в банковском секторе среды, в которой сотрудники смогут самостоятельно реализовывать цифровые инициативы для развития компании и самообучения. Обоснована необходимость её наличия. Проведен анализ соответствия поставленной проблемы российским и мировым трендам на основе изучения федеральных программ и оценок рейтинговых агентств. В результате исследования разработан бизнес-процесс реализации цифровых инициатив, про-веден конкурентный анализ его преимуществ и недостатков перед традиционным подходом к обучению. The article discusses the possibility of forming in the banking business an environment in which employees will be able to in-dependently implement digital initiatives for the development of the company and self-learning. The necessity of its presence is grounded. The analysis of compliance of the problem with the trends in Russia and the world based on the study of Federal programs and ratings agencies. To attract new staff with the necessary knowledge, banks have a number of tools - business classes, sponsorship programs, mentoring, hackathons, man-agement fights, case-championships, etc. It has been revealed that new professionals with technical skills can solve complex problems and generate products. But it’s difficult for them to dive into the banking sector, study its features and offer their own solutions to problems. It was also revealed that the company is interested in product results that are practice oriented. Com-bining product results and training is only possible by creating an environment in which they can discuss their ideas, find sup-port and implement them. As a result, a business process for the implementation of digital initiatives has been formed, a competi-tive analysis of its advantages and disadvantages over the tradi-tional approach to training has been conducted. strategies. The leading method of research is the definitions according grouping to the principles of the matrix method. It was revealed that the economic security concept is disclosed using factors freely com-bined into three groups (includes: sustainability, protection of interests, ensuring sovereignty), and the most common definitions are built using words-markers: state, security, advantage, process. One of the main study results is an algorithm for constructing the definition of the economic security concept, which allows to model and refine the definition of the concept based on the initial categories, consider-ing the economic context. The author's definition is also formulated, which reflects the interrelation of such components as the protection of interests, the impact of threats, the stability preservation, inde-pendence, ensuring development, self-adaptation and self-reproduction.

Changing Hands: Governance and Transformation in Hungary's Financial Sector

2002 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Banking Sector ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Shock Therapy ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Market Socialism ◽  
Debt Restructuring ◽  
Effective Discipline

AbstractThe early 1990s in Hungary saw rapid institutional change and severe economic downturn. Credit relations and the financial system generally suffered from widespread corruption, including the exchange of loans for bribes, self-enrichment schemes, and manipulation of such procedures as bankruptcy, state-initiated debt restructuring programs, and banking supervision processes. The cost of this early rash of corruption and later episodes through the 1990s easily runs into the hundreds of millions of dollars.Many countries in similar circumstances have failed to come to grips with these problems, with disastrous results—the paradigm example being Russia's experience leading up to the crisis of 1998. There, rapid privatization (in the absence of functioning safeguards and market institutions) opened the door to massive self-enrichment by enterprise insiders, and a loosely supervised banking system facilitated the rise of the oligarchs. Hungary saw the beginnings of this in the early 1990s. Its experiments with market socialism had ushered in a complex and murky business environment. Hybrid (state-private) corporate groups, in many cases run by former state managers, linked enterprises, banks, and the state in a collusive mutual embrace.What could be done? Economic restructuring to transform heavily corrupt incentives had to take first priority. Thus, the choices confronting Hungary in the early 1990s were tough and the stakes high. In the event, Hungary escaped the trap of failed transition. The main steps in its reform were the implementation (and adjustment) of a legal reform package known as “legislative shock therapy”, a (highly flawed) debt restructuring process, and robust privatization—especially of state holdings in the banking sector. These reforms revolutionized ownership incentives and imposed transparency on the system. The influx of foreign owners, together with the growing strength of markets and public sector institutions, brought banks and enterprises under the effective discipline of corporate governance and regulation. This helped create one of the strongest financial sectors in the region, a vibrant economy, and a reasonably well-governed and competitive marketplace. Corruption in the financial system, nearly a way of life in 1991, became far more episodic and manageable. The disciplines imposed by the applicable international regimes, especially the EU, have played an important role. There are lessons here for policymakers around the world.

Central banking in nineteenth-century Belgium: was the NBB a lender of last resort?

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Buyst ◽  
Ivo Maes
Keyword(s):  
Banking Sector ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Central Banking ◽  
Lender Of Last Resort ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
Finance Minister ◽  
National Bank ◽  
The Stability

AbstractThe creation of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) in 1850 marked a fundamental reform of the Belgian financial system. It clearly aimed at rendering the financial system more crisis resistant, especially by restricting the leverage of the banking sector. The NBB, which received the privilege to issue banknotes, was subject to strict rules to grant only short-term credit against collateral. The NBB took up a key role in maintaining monetary stability, especially by safeguarding the convertibility of banknotes. The NBB also took part in certain rescue operations of financial institutions. However, this was mostly on explicit demand from the finance minister and for crises concerning discount banks. It would then be an exaggeration to consider it as a lender of last resort, in the sense of taking responsibility for the stability of the financial system. This should be no surprise, given the limitations imposed by its statutes, especially the limitation to short-term credits and the strict rules on collateral, the role of the profit motive in its commercial activities and the priority for safeguarding the convertibility of banknotes.

Funny Money or Legitimate Finance? Shadow Banking and Policy Impacts in China

2021 ◽  
pp. 000276422110200
Author(s):  
Sara Hsu ◽  
Xun Han
Keyword(s):  
Banking Sector ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Banking Regulation ◽  
Shadow Banking ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Money Flows ◽  
Shadow Banking System ◽  
The Impact

Government officials in China have taken different views regarding shadow banking. Some have seen the industry as overly risky, potentially undermining the formal financial system, while others have asserted that it is an increasingly important part of the financial system, filling a gap in finance provision to particular sectors and smaller firms. Do their views matter? Regulators have striven to crack down on the riskiest practices in shadow banking, but are the policies effective? In this article, we analyze the impact of government attitudes and actions on the shadow banking sector. Using a unique data set based on information collected from various sources in a difference-in-difference model, we find that shadow banking regulation plays a strong role in China’s financial sector, while contradictory government views (in the form of commentary in the People’s Daily) on shadow banking do not. This reveals that shadow banking is strongly affected by political authority when it is codified into regulation. Only some aspects of shadow banking can be legitimized through regulation, while the remainder of China’s financial system remains constrained due to state dominance over the financial sector. This underscores the “funny” nature of shadow banking’s money flows. This article is one of the first to study the effects of government views and regulations on the shadow banking system.

scholarly journals STABILITY OF THE RUSSIAN BANKING SECTOR: TRENDS AND RISKS

2021 ◽  
pp. 10-19
Author(s):  
E.V. Travkina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Commercial Bank ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Procedural Components ◽  
Statistical Survey ◽  
The Impact

In the modern conditions of functioning of the banking system, the issues that arise with the assess¬ment of the stability of a commercial bank individually and the banking sector as a whole in connection with the aggravation of the negative impact of many risk-forming factors associated with the manifestation of the pandemic are updated. In this regard, a comprehensive systematization of the existing Russian and international practice of implementing a qualitative assessment of the stability of banking organizations becomes important. The purpose of the study is to identify trends in the development of the Russian banking sector and the manifestations of banking risks that have a negative impact on its stability, as well as to identify practical opportunities to reduce the impact of these risks. The following general scientific and special methods were chosen as scientific tools for conducting this study: the method of system analysis, the method of retrospective analysis, as well as the methods of statistical survey. The information base of the study was the statistical data of the Bank of Russia. The theoretical and meth¬odological basis of the study was the works of such researchers as Fetisov G. G., Lavrushin O. I., Tarkhanov E. A., Muraviev A. K. Ovchinnikov O. P., Betz A. Yu., Peresetsky A. A. Kromonov V. S., etc. The study is based on the basic definitions of the stability of banking organizations and the regulatory framework for assessing the stability of the Russian commercial bank, as well as methods, mechanisms and procedural components for assessing the stability of the Russian banking sector. The results of the study are aimed at identifying trends and risks that affect the stability of both the Russian banking system as a whole and individual commercial banks. As practical recom¬mendations, the directions for further sustainable development of the Russian banking sector in the context of the negative impact of the pandemic on the national economy are presented.

scholarly journals Theoretical aspects of mechanism of interaction between money and credit

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (4) ◽  
pp. 83-93
Author(s):  
Oleg Usherovich Avis
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Commercial Banks ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Bank Lending ◽  
National Bank ◽  
Weak Points ◽  
The Stability

The paper describes the central bank monetary policy that has been heavily criticized, largely due to the banks’ inability to identify emerging risks in a timely manner and to prevent threats to the stability of the entire global financial and banking system. A more rigorous expert-theoretical and public assessment is typical for analyzing the role of commercial banks in these processes, whereby they are recognized as the main culprits of recurrent crises. The excursion into the evolution of theoretical views on the problem under study allows to conclude that it is related to the credit nature of money, in which the activities of commercial banks are of great importance. This idea was shared by many foreign and Russian scientists, who at one time offered their recipes for improving the monetary mechanism, but remained not taken into account in practice. The initial positions of bank lending processes and money making on their basis in volumes and quality, often unregulated, have been analyzed. Much attention is paid to the role of the Central Bank, the bank customers and the state in shaping the credit nature of money. As an alternative to modern methods of monetary regulation, the idea of full-value money has been described. As an example, the phenomenon of the Swiss full-value money initiative in 2018 has been given. It is noted that the initiative demanded to ban issuing electronic (non-cash) money from the commercial banks in order to stabilize the financial system. The weak points of the reform include a threat to the stability of the money value, the low degree of independence of the National Bank of Switzerland. It has been inferred that the events taking place in the modern financial system may indicate significant transformations of the design and toolkit of the modern monetary policy

scholarly journals Concentration of Ukraine’s Banking System: Myths and Facts

2015 ◽  
pp. 6-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladyslav Rashkovan ◽  
Roman Kornyliuk
Keyword(s):  
Mergers And Acquisitions ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Bank Mergers ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
Banking Concentration ◽  
National Bank ◽  
Market Consolidation

This article attempts to find answers to questions of current significance: How concentrated is Ukraine’s banking system from the viewpoint of the world’s best regulatory practices and in comparison with other countries? What has been the driving force behind the growing concentration in recent years and does this process pose a threat to competition in the banking system? What effect would mergers and acquisitions in the banking sector have on the concentration of the banking system? And finally, do public authorities have to stimulate consolidation in the banking system or, on the contrary, restrain potential bank mergers and acquisitions? The results of empirical analysis dispel the persisting myths about the risks of fast and excessive concentration resulting from continuing market consolidation and about the substantial impact of inequality on the growing concentration, and refute the perceived danger of mergers and acquisitions in the banking sector. Instead, it was discovered that concentration of banking assets in Ukraine is not substantial according to the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI), CRn concentration index and other ratios. At the same time, in the conditions of continuing consolidation of the banking system via mergers and acquisitions and a decreasing number of banks, upward trends are observed within moderate, average European levels. Therefore, these new conditions require closer attention on the part of banking regulators to assess possible consequences of concentration. This article provides recommendations to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) and the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) on how to improve monitoring of banking concentration processes and better regulate consolidation processes in bank mergers and acquisitions. A complex of preventive macroprudential measures was offered to offset the negative consequences of concentration and achieve an optimal degree of market consolidation.

Assessing the Inter Bank Disparity in Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) Management in Indian Public Sector Banks

GIS Business ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Dhananjaya K. ◽  
Krishna Raj
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Public Sector Banks ◽  
Recovery Mechanisms ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

In a bank-dominated financial system like India, the strength of the overall financial system or financial stability highly depends on the soundness of banks. Indian Banking system proved to be strong and resilient during the global financial crisis of 2008. But of late, there has been increased concerns about the continued deterioration in the stability of the banking sector. Financial stability report of RBI confesses to the fact that the risks to Indian banking sector have been increasing in the post-recession period particularly the risk of accumulating NPAs. This study attempts to analyse the trend in profitability, NPAs, and the effectiveness of recovery mechanisms and interbank disparity in NPA management with respect to public sector banks. We found that the profitability of public sector banks is declining in the post-crisis period and the amount of NPA has been on the rise. Further, the recovery mechanisms have proved to be ineffective in containing the problem of bad debts.

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