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2024 | Book

Why Do Banks Fail and What to Do About It

The Role of Risk Management, Governance, Accounting, and More

Authors: Nordine Abidi, Bruno Buchetti, Samuele Crosetti, Ixart Miquel-Flores

Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland

Book Series : Contributions to Finance and Accounting

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About this book

Banks play a crucial role in the global economy, yet they are vulnerable to failures that can have catastrophic effects. Key questions arise: What causes bank failures? What drives these failures? Can we avoid a banking crisis? What happens when a bank fails?

This book explores the causes, consequences, and potential prevention of banking crises. It begins by examining the fundamental roles of banks in the economic system, focusing on their intermediary functions like liquidity provision, payment management, asset transformation, and borrower oversight. The book then delves into the challenges facing the banking sector, including cyber threats, climate change, and geopolitical instabilities.

The second chapter addresses the primary risks banks face, such as liquidity, credit, market, interest rate, IT, and environmental risks, and how these contribute to banking failures. Chapter three shifts focus to financial statements, contrasting those of commercial and investment banks with non-financial companies, and discusses the impact of creative accounting in recent banking collapses.

Governance issues and their role in banking failures are the focus of chapter four, highlighting the crucial need for effective risk monitoring by bank directors. The final chapter illustrates the process of bank resolution and the evolving strategies of resolution authorities in ensuring bank stability.

Targeted at researchers, regulators, and practitioners, this book comprehensively covers the drivers of banking failures, regulatory improvement suggestions, and real-world case studies. It emphasizes the importance of banks in today’s economy, their unique risks, and the aftermath of their failure, aiming to provide a threefold contribution to understanding and managing banking crises.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Chapter 1. The Role of Banking
Abstract
This chapter explores the fundamental role of banks in the financial system. It discusses the nature and functions of banks, their significance in the economy, and addresses why banks are essential entities. This chapter delves into contemporary challenges facing the banking sector, such as the impact of Big Tech companies, evolving payment methods, and how these factors are shaping the future of banking and money.
Nordine Abidi, Bruno Buchetti, Samuele Crosetti, Ixart Miquel-Flores
Chapter 2. Risk Management and Banking Failures
Abstract
The focus of this chapter is on the management of risks leading to banking failures. It examines regulatory responses to bank failures and highlights strategies to prevent such failures. The chapter also introduces emerging risks in the banking sector, including the impacts of climate change, digitisation technology, and cyber threats, underscoring the evolving nature of risk management in financial institutions.
Nordine Abidi, Bruno Buchetti, Samuele Crosetti, Ixart Miquel-Flores
Chapter 3. The Role of the Accounting Information in Banking Failures
Abstract
This chapter discusses the critical role of accounting information in banking failures. It provides insights into the financial statements of commercial and investment banks and analyses the mechanics of accounting misrepresentation. Topics covered include the overstatement of assets and creative accounting techniques, such as the underreporting of liabilities and off-balance sheet positions, highlighting how these practices contribute to banking crises.
Nordine Abidi, Bruno Buchetti, Samuele Crosetti, Ixart Miquel-Flores
Chapter 4. Corporate Governance and Banking Failures
Abstract
Chapter 4 examines the relationship between corporate governance and banking failures. It explores the concept of corporate governance in the banking sector, applying insights from agency theory. This chapter discusses how to reduce agency costs and the impact of these costs on banking. It also addresses the dilemmas faced by shareholders, depositors, and directors in the context of corporate governance, illustrating the complexities of managing these relationships in preventing banking failures.
Nordine Abidi, Bruno Buchetti, Samuele Crosetti, Ixart Miquel-Flores
Chapter 5. Banking Resolution and Its Key Concepts and Tools
Abstract
This chapter deals with banking resolution, explaining why banks require special resolution regimes. It outlines the objectives and concepts of bank resolvability, including the preconditions to resolution and the public interest assessment. The chapter also describes various tools used in banking resolution, the requirements for loss absorption, and the importance of ongoing resolution planning, resolvability assessment, and testing
Nordine Abidi, Bruno Buchetti, Samuele Crosetti, Ixart Miquel-Flores
Backmatter
Metadata
Title
Why Do Banks Fail and What to Do About It
Authors
Nordine Abidi
Bruno Buchetti
Samuele Crosetti
Ixart Miquel-Flores
Copyright Year
2024
Electronic ISBN
978-3-031-52311-3
Print ISBN
978-3-031-52310-6
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52311-3