LENDING ACTIVITIES OF UKRAINIAN BANKS: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

An important and topical issue for Ukraine is the issue of improving the organizational, economic and legal foundations of effective lending activities of domestic banks. The ability of the latter to satisfy public needs for loans contributes to the development of the country’s economy. The stability of the banking system largely depends on the level of efficiency of banks’ lending activities. The revitalization of the lending activity of Ukrainian banks in recent years has been accompanied by a simultaneous decrease in its profitability, which is primarily due to the instability of financial markets, imperfect regulatory framework and a high level of competition. Under such conditions, the requirements for the quality of the management process in banks are growing, in particular, there is a need to develop new and improve existing methods for assessing and increasing the efficiency of lending activities.

Fracking Disclosure, Collateral Value, and the Mortgage Market

This paper examines whether laws requiring oil and gas firms to disclose the chemicals used in their fracking operations affect the mortgage lending activity for properties located in nearby areas. I hypothesize and find that the disclosure mandate reduces uncertainty about the value of housing collateral and subsequently increases 1) the probability of obtaining a mortgage by 2.5 percentage points (pp) and 2) loan-to-value by 2.2 pp. My main analyses exploit the variation in the location of properties relative to fracking wells. Cross-sectional tests that exploit heterogeneity in drinking water sources and the content of firm disclosures further substantiate my inferences and mitigate endogeneity concerns. These findings suggest that disclosure regulation for oil and gas firms affects housing collateral values, thereby impacting the mortgage market.

Does financial literacy “grease the wheels” of the loans market? A note

Purpose What is the impact of financial literacy on the lending activity of banks? Based on the results of the S&P Global FinLit Survey for an extensive sample of countries, this paper aims to provide the first global test for the impact of country-level financial literacy on the lending activity of commercial banks. Design/methodology/approach The authors use data on financial literacy by country from the S&P Global FinLit Survey that was completed in 2014 and lending activity and macroeconomic control variables data from the World Bank from 2015 to 2017 to estimate the cross-sectional effect of financial literacy on the importance of loans and of non-performing loans, using different estimation methods. Findings The results show that, first, financial literacy favors lending activity, contributing to enhance the importance of credit in the economy. Second, financial literacy prevents bad loans from building up, thus reducing credit risk and favoring the quality of the credit portfolio of banks. These results are robust to several controls for macroeconomic conditions and the quality of institutions. They are also robust to different estimation methods. Research limitations/implications The evidence of the positive (negative) impact of population financial literacy on the quantity (poor quality) of loans suggests that the efforts to enhance the financial literacy of the population contribute to the sustainable development of the financial sector and economic growth. Originality/value The paper extends to an international and country-level the available evidence of the consequences of the existence (or lack of) of financial literacy for the lending activity of commercial banks, focusing on the amount of credit granted and the quality of such credit. Thus, the paper provides an exploratory analysis of the impact of country-level financial literacy on the lending activities of commercial banks.

Residential House Prices, Commercial Real Estate Lending and Bank Failures

We investigate factors leading to bank failures during and after the Great Recession and banking crisis (2008–2015). The FHFA residential real estate house price index (HPI) for each of the 9 Census regions is used to interact with bank mortgage loans and bank financial statement variables. We find that these variables isolate different regional effects on the likelihood of a bank failing. Since we use changes from region to region, we find that regional location and HPI changes have an effect on banks’ commercial lending activity. Other more traditional and associated factors, like construction and land development lending or multifamily real estate lending, similarly explain bank failures during the main period of the banking crisis. By using this approach we better isolate the relationship between residential house prices and builders’ and land developers’ desire to borrow and the willingness of banks to concentrate portfolio lending in commercial real estate.

Non-banking financial intermediation and phenomena of shadow money in modern economy

Subject. The article addresses the non-banking financial intermediation (shadow banking system) as it is successfully expanding nowadays both in developed countries and emerging economics. Objectives. The study aims at conducting a comprehensive analysis of the specifics of non-banking financial intermediation, revealing its impact on economic agents’ activities, causes and consequences, and elaborating the methodological framework for effectiveness of modern monetary policy. Methods. I employ methods of scientific abstraction, induction, deduction, synthesis, and comparative analysis. Results. In the modern national economy, along with the money, created by the central bank and commercial banks, there are highly liquid financial instruments called shadow money. The scope of its application is shadow banking (financial intermediation) outside the banking system. The use of shadow money is caused by high demand for credit resources. Conclusions. The high activity of shadow banking and increased turnover of shadow money resulted from a transfer to Basel standards of banking regulation in the 1990s, which affected the lending activity of commercial banks. Under these conditions, the demand for loans provided by non-bank credit and financial institutions increased. The market of non-bank credit products was formed. However, the process of lending in the shadow banking is associated with high risks and non-stability of shadow money, widely used in this sphere.

How inefficient is an inefficient credit process? An analysis of the Italian banking system

PurposeThe paper aims to disentangle the physiological credit risk from the credit risk coming from the inefficient screening and monitoring management process. The analysis is conducted on a sample of 338 Italian banks–56 joint-stock banks (SpA), 23 cooperative banks (Popolari) and 259 mutual banks (BCCs)–over the time period 2006–2017.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use the maximum likelihood method to estimate the efficient frontier, as a set of best management credit practices, which minimises the credit risk defined on the basis of the level of loans granted, the technical structure of the loan portfolio (such as credit lines, mortgages, consumer loans and other technical loan categories) and the interest rate charges.FindingsThe empirical results show that the increase in non-performing loans (NPLs) is related both to the severe and protracted recession in Italy, which significantly reduced borrowers' capacity to service their debt, and to other factors, such as banks' lending monitoring policies with limited capacity to work-out defaulted loans.Originality/valueThe authors propose a new approach to the study of the performance of the credit process. With the stochastic frontier, the physiological credit risk, assumed by the bank according to its lending activity and management choices, is separated from the credit risk resulting from an inefficient management of the screening and monitoring process. In addition, the authors analyse the determinants of the excess of NPLs. This aspect is considered particularly original because the scientific contributions which consider the causes of NPLs have largely focused on the level of NPLs not considering the physiological part, linked to the structure of the bank's loan portfolio and its operational strategy and therefore not compressible and in any case not attributable to mismanagement or moral hazard.

Scoring Models and Credit Risk: The Case of Cooperative Banks in Poland

The aim of the research presented in the article was to analyse the legitimacy of the use of scoring models in banking activities, together with the assessment of the effectiveness of this tool in reducing the high value of the NPL ratio in Polish cooperative banks on the example of banks belonging to the BPS S.A. association in the period between 2004 and 2020. We used a variety of research methods for this purpose including a depth review of the literature, analysis of statistical data regarding the sector of Polish cooperative banks, analysis of financial data of cooperative banks, construction of an econometric panel model, and the designing a questionnaire (which was later sent to the management board of selected cooperative banks). Our research confirmed the significant impact of the use of scoring models in lending activities on the value of the NPL ratio in cooperative banks. The analysed cooperative banks, which used the scoring models proposed by BIK in their lending activity, showed significantly lower values of the NPL ratio in each analysed year than banks that used other scoring models. Our study also confirmed the different direction of the impact of the models offered by BIK and individual scoring models on the value of the NPL ratio. We have also shown that the scoring models proposed by BIK have a statistically significant negative impact on the level of the NPL ratio, and the banks’ own scoring models have a statistically significant positive impact on the level of the NPL ratio.

BANK LENDING IN THE PERIOD OF INFLATION TARGETING IN UKRAINE: CURRENT REALITIES AND PROSPECTS

Introduction. The article analyzes the existing trends in the field of bank lending during the crisis of 2014-2017. The reasons for the decline in lending activity of domestic banks are considered. Mechanisms for intensifying bank lending as a necessary condition for ensuring economic growth in Ukraine are proposed. Methods. General scientific methods of cognition, induction, deduction and comparison are used in the article. Statistical and graphical methods and the method of mathematical modelling were used to analyse the causes and consequences of the decline in banks' lending activity. The system method was used in the development of proposals and recommendations. Results. Bank lending in Ukraine during the economic crisis of 2014-2017 and pandemic shocks is studied. Negative factors influencing the credit activity of banks have been identified. The main miscalculations of the National Bank of Ukraine, the Government and the legislature in the field of creating conditions for stimulating the lending activity of banking institutions are substantiated. With the help of cluster analysis, domestic banks are grouped into four clusters according to the level of their participation in lending to the Ukrainian economy. Discussion. The peculiarities of bank lending to domestic enterprises at the present stage are highlighted. Based on the analysis of the development of bank lending in Ukraine, promising strategies for intensifying bank lending support to the real sector of the national economy have been developed. Keywords: activation of bank lending, interest rate policy, refinancing of commercial banks, credit risk, creditworthiness.

Off the Rails: The Real Effects of Railroad Bond Defaults following the Panic of 1873

Although corporate default crises are often quite severe, previous work has found little impact on real macroeconomic variables. This article investigates the relationship between railroad defaults and the balance sheets of local banks following the Panic of 1873. Receivers appointed to run railroads in default lacked the legal tools necessary to fully maintain railroad operations. The results indicate that railroad bond defaults negatively impacted the lending activity of local banks. Affected banks experienced declines in loans and deposits along with increases in excess reserves. These findings point to a disruption of the transportation network attributable to the railroad bond default crisis.

Analysis Factors Affecting Lenders Intention In P2p Lending Platform Using Utaut2 Model

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending platform is relatively new to Indonesian market and it managed to dominate Financial Technology in Indonesia by 2019. This fast growth is influenced by simple borrowing and lending activity regulation compared to more traditional markets like banks. Most of previous studies had been focusing on borrowers’ side whereas the lender's side was minimally highlighted. Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) is used to analyze key factors that affect the usage of P2P Lending with addition of trust and risk. This research used SmartPLS to calculate the effect of each variable and found that effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating condition, trust, and risk have positive effects on lenders intention to use the P2P lending platform