Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance: Volume 31 Issue 2

Bank regulation and risk-taking in sub-Sahara Africa

Sopani Gondwe, Tendai Gwatidzo, Nyasha Mahonye

In a bid to enhance the stability of banks, supervisory authorities in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) have also adopted international bank regulatory standards based on the Basel core…

Jurisdictional arbitrage: combatting an inevitable by-product of cryptoasset regulation

Sideris Draganidis

This paper aims to provide an overview of different issues related to jurisdictional arbitrage found in general regulatory arbitrage literature and their projection to the…

The regulation of RegTech and SupTech in finance: ensuring consistency in principle and in practice

Jonathan McCarthy

The paper’s aim is to consider how best to formulate sturdy regulatory frameworks for RegTech and SupTech. The paper appraises how key features of EU and UK regulatory and policy…

Institutional quality, macroeconomic uncertainty and efficiency of financial institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Rexford Abaidoo, Elvis Kwame Agyapong

This paper evaluates how institutions of governance and macroeconomic uncertainty influence efficiency of financial institutions in the subregion of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Data…

Does the deployment of algorithms combined with direct electronic access increase conduct risk? Evidence from the LME

Alexander Conrad Culley

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of two regulatory initiatives in developing awareness of conduct risk associated with algorithmic and direct-electronic…

Global financial crisis, international capital requirement and bank financial stability: an international evidence

Baah Aye Kusi, Joseph Ato Forson, Eunice Adu-Darko, Elikplimi Agbloyor

Financial crises (FC) remain a global threat to the financial stability of financial institutions and international bank regulatory capital requirement (IBRCR) by the Committee on…