Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
The role of personal credit in small business risk assessment: a machine learning approach
The authors investigate how personal credit data can be combined with business-level and tradeline variables in a machine learning framework to enhance default prediction.
EU banks fear green asset ratios paint an unfair picture
Industry lobbyist clashes with lawmaker over usefulness of new sustainability disclosure
Small and medium-sized enterprises’ time to default: an analysis using an improved mixture cure model with time-varying covariates
The authors put forward a method using a support vector machine to enhance the exploration of nonlinear covariate effects if SMEs never default while also considering time-varying and fixed covariates for the incidence and latency of an event.
Credit portfolio manager of the year: Intesa Sanpaolo
Risk Awards 2022: Italy’s largest lender is one of the EU’s strongest thanks to smart securitisations
RBC lifts CET1 ratio by 80bp with model parameter update
Reclassification of small business clients carves out C$26 billion of credit risk
Small and medium-sized enterprises that borrow from "alternative" lenders in the United Kingdom: who are they?
This study provides a general overview of the external financing landscape for the UK SMEs and an exploratory analysis of the SME portfolio of one of the alternative lenders in the United Kingdom.
What drives the January seasonality in the illiquidity premium? Evidence from international stock markets
This study is, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, the first attempt to comprehensively examine and explain the January effect in the illiquidity premium.
SME risks take centre stage at European banks
Lenders could suffer if government support for small business starts to wane
Which EU banks hold the most SME exposures?
Danske Bank, Crédit Agricole, Group BPCE lead the field
BPCE’s capital ratio falls as it waits on Covid loan relief
Delay to state guarantee benefits took 32bp off of CET1 ratio
Corporate, SME loans to take brunt of Covid shock, say EU banks
Though credit outlook has darkened, banks expect to increase lending overall
Synthetics sweetener teases European banks
As structural woes resolve, regulators remain split on preferential capital treatment for STS deals
A new leaf: why a hedge fund manager bought a bank
Andy Redleaf founded a $6 billion hedge fund. Now he runs a small community bank
Currency risk in foreign currency accounts for small and medium-sized businesses
This paper estimates the currency exposure before and after the hedging of active foreign currency (FC) accounts, using stochastic models for spot exchange rates and cashflow movements.
Credit portfolio manager of the year: NatWest Bank
Risk Awards 2020: Big deals and big ideas have helped transform stress-test laggard to leader
Synthetic securitisations and Europe’s capital sweetener
Regulator weighs high-quality label for synthetic deals, but without favourable capital treatment
CVA exemption in Basel III could save EU banks more than €18bn
Tweaks to op risk framework might reduce capital shortfall by €12.3 billion
Basel’s unlikely victim: venture capital
Changes to credit risk framework could block alternative path for EU banks to finance SMEs
SME loans more capital intensive for big eurozone banks
Corporate loans to smaller enterprises attract high risk weightings
Fresh scrutiny for Europe’s SME capital carve-out
FSB’s Knot urges conformity with global standards
A tenth of users ‘don’t know’ if Libor death affects them, survey finds
Respondents blame low industry preparedness on lack of standardisation in treatment of fallbacks