RATIONALE BEHIND AND DILEMMAS OVER CONSOLIDATION AND COOPERATION OF COOPERATIVE BANKS IN POLAND

2021 ◽  
Vol XXIII (3) ◽  
pp. 43-59
Author(s):  
Ryszard Kata
Keyword(s):  
Banking Sector ◽  
Banking Activity ◽  
Cooperative Banks ◽  
Bank Consolidation

The study analyses the processes of consolidation of cooperative banks in Poland in 2010-2020 and the cooperation of banks within operating cooperative banking associations. The essence of the processes of consolidation and cooperation of cooperative banks was determined and their premises, scale and effects to date were presented. The main focus was on the analysis of factors determining the need for the further transformation of the cooperative banking sector in Poland and the role that may be played by bank consolidation and various forms of cooperation of cooperative banks in this process. It has been shown that the consolidation of banks, consisting of taking over economically weak banks by larger cooperative banks, better performing on the market, is necessary, but it is not a solution leading to the development of the sector. Such a solution may be the tightening of cooperation between banks within associations, leading to the gradual integration of selected areas of banking activity while maintaining the autonomy of local banks in relations (at the contact) with customers.

BANK SPÓŁDZIELCZY (COOPERATIVE BANK) AS A GUARANTOR OF THE STABILISATION OF THE LOCAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM1

2019 ◽  
pp. 173-179
Author(s):  
Andrzej Pawlik
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Statistical Data Analysis ◽  
Data Analysis Method ◽  
Strong Position ◽  
Cooperative Banks

Urgency of the research. One of the most essential sources of supporting regional and local development is the banking system. Target setting. The study presented describes cooperative banking, represented by Bank Polskiej Spółdzielczości S.A. and Bank Spółdzielczy w Kielcach. The use of the statistical data analysis method allowed to demonstrate the strong position of cooperative banking in the market, fostering regional and local development. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. The foundations for the modern cooperative banking sector were laid by cooperative financial organisations functioning more than 150 years ago [Pawlik, 2017, s. 152]. Its history is connected with difficulties faced in the period of partitions, work at the foundations after the end of World War I and Poland’s regaining its national independence. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. At present, cooperative banking functions as a result of the adoption by the Sejm of the Republic of Poland on 7 December 2000 of the act on the functioning of cooperative banks, their associations and associating banks, which ensured new legal conditions for the functioning of the sector2. The research objective. The article formulates the hypothesis that nowadays activities of cooperative banks will contribute to regional and local development. The statement of basic materials. One of the most essential sources of supporting regional and local development is the banking system. This system can guarantee the stabilisation of the local financial system. By supporting the development of regional and local entrepreneurship through loans, investment activities of the banks and financial and investment consulting, it will determine the identity of the region concerned. Conclusions. The use of the statistical data analysis method allowed to demonstrate the strong position of cooperative banking in the market, fostering regional and local development.

scholarly journals Too Much Technology and Too Little Regulation? The Spectacular Demise of P2P Lending in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ding Chen ◽  
Simon Deakin ◽  
Andrew Johnston ◽  
Boya Wang
Keyword(s):  
Banking Sector ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Internal Controls ◽  
Banking Activity ◽  
P2p Lending ◽  
Fundamental Uncertainty ◽  
The Government ◽  
Specific Regulation

Abstract In this paper we trace the rapid growth and spectacular demise of online peer to peer lending in China. Drawing on a series of interviews conducted in China in 2017 and 2018, we follow the expansion of the sector from the establishment of the first major platform in 2007, through the introduction of limited regulation in 2015 in response to a series of platform failures to the final de facto closure of the whole sector by the regulator in 2019–20. However, contrary to claims that technology would reduce risk, the new platforms appear to have given rise to new risks by connecting dispersed borrowers and lenders whilst the regulator had decided to leave the sector to evolve without specific regulation. While there were hopes that P2P lending might increase flows of finance to the SMEs that are excluded from the formal banking system, ultimately too much of the activity on the P2P platforms was characterised by what we term ‘transactional ambiguity’ and ‘legal fluidity’: it occurred on the fringes of legality, often amounting to Ponzi schemes, fraud or unlicensed banking activity. In contrast to the banking sector, where their intermediation role ensures that banks are the focal point in the event of borrower default, and conventional moneylending, where moneylenders bear the risk of default, defaults and platform failures in the P2P sector distributed losses far and wide around the country, often to lenders who were not capable of bearing them. Whilst the central government did not formally stand behind the P2P sector (as it does with banks because of the systemic implications of their operations), the government could not help but become involved where P2P lending transmitted losses to lenders who were dispersed around the whole country. Ultimately, central government announced a wholesale reversal of policy that led to the sector effectively being closed down. The episode cautions against overly optimistic claims that technology can eradicate the risks of fraud and fundamental uncertainty inherent in lending, and reminds us that, without appropriate regulation and adequate internal controls, financial institutions will always operate in ways that result in instability.

scholarly journals Drivers of Individual Credit Risk of Retail Customers—A Case Study on the Example of the Polish Cooperative Banking Sector

Risks ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 219
Author(s):  
Rafał Balina ◽  
Marta Idasz-Balina
Keyword(s):  
Credit Risk ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Logit Regression ◽  
Local Character ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cooperative Banks

The main aim of the research was to determine the key factors determining the level of credit risk of individual clients (clients in the form of natural persons, excluding companies) on the example of Polish cooperative banks according to the following features: transaction characteristics, socio-demographic characteristics of the customer, the customer’s financial situation, the customer’s history of cooperation with the cooperative bank where they applied for a loan, and the customer’s history of cooperation with other financial institutions. For the research gathered data from 1000 credit applications submitted by individual customers when applying for a credit in five different cooperative banks were used for the analyses. To assess the credit risk of retail clients we use logit regression models, and additionally, score cards were calculated. The results of the research indicate that among the factors with high predictive power there were the features characterizing the client’s history of cooperation with the cooperative bank, where they applied for a loan. It may mean that when assessing credit risk related to financing individual customers, cooperative banks due to their local character, have an advantage over other financial institutions.

scholarly journals HOW DO BANKERS WORK DEVIANTLY IN THE CREDIT SECTOR?

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 678-687
Author(s):  
Dewi Khrisna Sawitri ◽  
◽  
Mustain Mashud ◽  
Antun Mardiyanta ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Counterproductive Work Behavior ◽  
Work Behavior ◽  
Bank Credit ◽  
Depth Information ◽  
Counterproductive Behavior ◽  
Banking Activity ◽  
A Company

This research is implemented in the banking sector. Knowledge about counterproductive behavior that emerged in banking activity is still limited. Bankers, human resources in the banking sector, deal a lot with customers in their day-to-day job activity by assessing the credit proposal of their bank customers. Qualified credit assessment is essential to determine the approval of bank credit. The failure to assess qualified debtors will result in bad credit in which debtors do not repay the credit they receive. To get qualified credit assessment, bankers follow the 5C Principles in assessing credit proposals. Counterproductive work behavior occurs when workers perform indifferently from what the rules and norms of a company have stated. Qualitative research with a phenomenology approach was conducted to determine how these deviances performed while bankers assessed their customers’ credit loan proposals under the 5C Principles. Six bankers with different job positions were the subjects of this study and were interviewed to get in-depth information. This research reveals items of behaviors related to production deviances in each principle they assessed. Deviances are reported in each principle then categorized into production ones since these behaviors deal a lot with how they perform their job in the credit sector.

Improvement of the Legislation of Ukraine as to the Provision of the Protection of Banking in the Conditions of European Integration

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 2165
Author(s):  
Alyona M. KLOCHKO ◽  
Nikolai P. KURILO ◽  
Svetlana I. ZAPARA ◽  
Irina V. ARISTOVA ◽  
Mykola I. LOGVINENKO
Keyword(s):  
Banking Sector ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
External Threats ◽  
Banking Activity ◽  
Banking Institutions ◽  
Criminal Legislation

Euro-integration course of Ukraine has caused an intensive development of its banking sphere. The inconsistency between the possible legislative consolidation of criminal responsibility for socially dangerous acts in the banking sector and the objective needs of society in such protection becomes more and more obviousis in Ukraine. The processes of ‘clearing’ the banking system from financial institutions that are insolvent along with the positive results have led to an increase in the level of criminalization of the banking sector. Abuses aimed at taking possession of money from creditors and borrowers of banking institutions have become widespread. External threats to the stable functioning of the banking sector are combined with internal misconduct of unscrupulous bank managers, officials and persons related to the banks. Approaches to legislative regulation of suspicious banking transactions and to identify their real volumes must be improved. The measures aimed at reducing of the level of criminalization of the banking sphere by establishing criminal liability of managers and persons connected with the bank for unlawful acts in the banking sector must be taken. The certain issues of legal regulation of banking activity in Ukraine on criminal legal level are considered. The provisions of international law on these matters are  analyzed and the main ways to optimize Ukranian criminal legislation to ensure the safety of banking activity are suggested. It turns out that the need for criminal legal protection of banking is conditoned by an increase in the public danger of these acts at the present stage of the functioning of society. This need is also confirmed by the crisis in the financial and banking spheres of the state, the need to eliminate the gaps in the current legislation on banking safety and the changes that took place in the banking sector of Ukraine in the context of increased integration with the EU.

scholarly journals Are Cooperative Banks Better Equipped to Weather Financial Crisis than their Commercial Counterparts? Evidence from the Italian Banking Sector before and during the Credit Crisis

Organizacija ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-126
Author(s):  
Mitja Stefancic
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Cost Efficiency ◽  
Commercial Banks ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Credit Crisis ◽  
Cooperative Banks

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.

scholarly journals Cooperative versus Conventional (Joint-Stock) Banking In Europe: Comparative Resistance And Resilience During The Recent Financial Crisis

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 1341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mireille Jaeger ◽  
Yasmina Lemzeri ◽  
Jean-Noel Ory
Keyword(s):  
Banking Sector ◽  
Banking System ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Cooperative Groups ◽  
Legal Form ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Cooperative Banks ◽  
Legal Forms ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
High Level

During the banking crisis of the 1990s, French cooperative banks emerged as more resistant and efficient than joint-stock banks, which enabled them to improve their market share and increase their reserve capital. This subsequently became the keystone of the external restructuring that led to the transformation of cooperative banks into large universal banking groups. At the time, their competitive advantage relied mainly on a different approach to risk-taking, which was associated with their cooperative legal form and their specific governance model.However, the same features have clearly not prevailed during the financial phase of the most recent crisis.  Whereas governance models in the banking sector have been deeply questioned, the original cooperative model has evolved differently within European countries, with a high level of hybridization in some and a very diffuse cooperative network in others. Some European cooperative groups have been damaged by the crisis, mainly because of the corporate and investment banking that formed part of their activity.Yet the recent crisis has revealed the importance of a resistant and resilient worldwide banking system and the diversity of legal forms and organizations could contribute to achieving this goal. In this paper, we assess the resistance and resilience of major joint-stock banks during the crisis and compare them to cooperative banks in different European countries and Canada. We conduct our analysis at an aggregated/consolidated level for these two categories of banks. Using different indicators (e.g., z-score, loans to the economy, return on equity) as dependent variables, we verify whether the cooperative form is synonymous with greater resistance or resilience, and whether the results may be explained by different organizational schemes in cooperative banking.

scholarly journals ANTI-CRISIS REGULATION OF BANKING BUSINESS: CASE OF AZERBAIJAN

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fakhri Fuad Murshudli ◽  
◽  
Muslum Mursal Mursalov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Independent Field ◽  
Banking Activity ◽  
Banking Business ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Definition Of

The article examines the experience of the Republic of Azerbaijan (RA) in anti-crisis regulation of the banking sector. The author reveals the current state of the banking system of RA. Its development is monitored from three time perspectives – on the eve of the crisis (2005-2007), in the crisis (2008-2009) and post-crisis periods (2010-2020). The characteristics and features of each of them are revealed. The conceptual essence of the definition of “anti-crisis management” is revealed. The factors contributing to the study of anti-crisis management (regulation) of banking activity as an independent field of scientific research, as well as the distinctive features of its methods and tools are highlighted. The article analyzes the impact of anti-crisis regulation on the banking system of RA in the context of the global economic crisis, as well as anti-crisis measures taken by the country’s monetary authorities at various stages of the modern financial collapse. The authors concluded that these measures are inconsistent, and that it is necessary to further improve regulation and supervision in this area, aimed at achieving high financial stability of the banking system, primarily due to an adequate level of capitalization, optimal indicators of financial reserves and liquidity.

scholarly journals Economic Effects of the Digital Transformation on the Banking Market Using the Example of Savings Banks and Cooperative Banks in Germany

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Carsten Giebe ◽  
Kevin Schulz
Keyword(s):  
Banking Sector ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Savings Banks ◽  
Banking Market ◽  
Massive Change ◽  
Cooperative Banks ◽  
Market Factors ◽  
Regional Associations ◽  
Retail Banks

Due to the digital transformation, the banking sector in Germany is undergoing massive change. This structural change is massively influenced by technological progress, regulation and supervision, the low-interest phase and demographic change. The focus of this research is on the comparison of savings banks and cooperative banks in Germany, as there are many similarities between the two banking groups. Both belong to the so-called retail banks. The respective bank clients are very similar due to the regional principle, the structure in regional associations and in their clientele. The main purpose of this research is to investigate which of the two banking groups, savings banks or cooperative banks, is more operationally efficient under the same prevailing competitive pressure from the Digital Transformation. This paper summarises the analysis of both banking groups based on real ratios. The relevance of the findings on this scientific problem is that the comparison of savings banks and cooperative banks in Germany has not been addressed in the scientific literature so far. The aim of the research is to make a statement as to which banking group has performed better given the same external market factors. Furthermore, arguments and counter-arguments within the academic discussion on the topic of digitalization in the German banking market will be compiled. The results of the research can be useful for academics who deal with the digital transformation in the banking sector in Germany.

Profitability factors and efficiency of Greek banks

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikos Ioanni Schiniotakis
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cooperative Banks ◽  
Greek Banks ◽  
First Time ◽  
Published Research

PurposeThis paper aims to search for the factors that influence the profitability of Greek commercial and cooperative banks by examining other variables that have never been used before. It also seeks to examine bank performance before and during the economic crisis in Greece. The survey is based on previous similar research.Design/methodology/approachA multiple regression analysis has been used for the determination of the factors which influence the profitability of the Greek banking sector as well as the multicriteria method PROMETHEE for the examination of the Greek banking sector performance before (2007) and during the economic recession (2008‐2009).FindingsThe paper finds that: type of bank plays an important role in profitability; the indicator ROA is associated only with well‐capitalized banks with sufficient liquidity and cost efficiency; and cooperative banks in general at the beginning of the crisis were less influenced by the economic crisis than commercial banks.Originality/valueThis is the first time that the entire Greek banking system has been examined for the particular period regarding the factors that influence bank profitability. Up to now there has been no published research examining whether the type of the bank influences profitability or which of banks remained efficient and “durable” before and during the first two years of the economic crisis in Greece.

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