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The global financial market has been under a lot of stress in the past years. With the financial crisis that started in 2008, in the US and spread around the world, it created awareness that the world’s financial market requires more regulation to withstand such a crisis. Therefore a new recommended framework for the global financial market was developed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision; Basel III. Basel III presented a new era with stricter supervision of banks and tighter regulations. As the European Union is one of the world’s most integrated regions, it strives to be the first to implement the Basel III framework. In order to achieve this, the European Union created its own legislative package, the Capital Requirement Directive IV.The research purpose of this dissertation is to examine how divergences in Sweden, Denmark and Germany’s national financial markets will affect their ability to implement the new CRD IV regulations. Based on the research the conclusion is that our Swedish respondent is most prepared in meeting the new regulations of our three respondents; the characteristics of the Swedish financial market seem well fit to meet the new requirements. Both Germany and Denmark seems to be experiencing problems; the characteristics of their financial markets create obstacles when implementing the new regulations. Denmark has difficulties with their mortgage lending market due to their unique mortgage model. Germany will have problems with the leverage ratio and their inflexible three pillar banking system. Germany’s government has been skeptical to the new CRD IV regulations and this might also have affected our German respondent in a negative way. With the implementation of the regulations the European Commission aims to improve the banking sector in the member states, so that they will be able to endure stress periods better and help to prevent another financial crisis. However, the implementation of the new regulations puts a lot of pressure on the banks and how well they can perform during the implementation process. With this research a questionnaire is created that will help understand how three major banks in Sweden, Denmark and Germany will be affected by the new regulations and if the characteristics of their national financial markets will give them advantages or disadvantages when implementing them. The answers also give us a conclusion to which of the new regulations each respondent will have the most difficulty of implementing. Future research is suggested to be done into the Danish mortgage lending market and their unique mortgage model, to see if it can co-exist with the new CRD IV regulations. Also an in-depth research into the German three pillar banking system can be interesting, to find out if they are able to maintain it or if they have to restructure it.

Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att identifiera vilka bootstrappingsmetoder som svenska småföretag tillämpar samt hur dessa tillämpas. Dessutom ämnar studien att kartlägga vilka av de identifierade bootstrappingskategorierna som anses vara mest effektiva på att tillfredsställa behovet av kapital. Teoretiskt perspektiv: Den teoretiska referensramen utgörs av teorier om det finansiella gapet samt asymmetrisk informationsfördelning. Vidare behandlas entreprenörens preferensordning av kapital i Pecking Order Theory samt teorier om finansiell bootstrapping och dess olika metoder. Metod: Studien utgår från ett positivistiskt inslag och besitter en iterativ forskningsansats. Undersökningen utgörs av en surveyundersökning med semistrukturerade intervjuer som datainsamlingsmetod. Urvalet i denna studie består utav ägare av små företag som uppfyller EU kommissionens krav på ett litet företag. Primärdata i undersökningen genereras av intervjuer genomförda på dessa småföretag. Empiri: Empirin består av en presentation av den data som samlades in från de tio personliga intervjuerna genomförda på tio ägare från olika verksamheter. Slutsats: Studien visar att de sex mest tillämpade bootstrappingsmetoderna är inte tagit ut någon lön, delat utrustning med andra företag, använt eget konto för att finansiera verksamheten, samarbetat med andra företag, använt leasad utrustning samt förhandlat bästa villkor med leverantörer. Vidare har det visat sig att relationsorienterade- samt ägarfinansierade bootstrappingsmetoder anses vara mest effektiva på att minska verksamhetens kapitalbehov. / Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify what financial bootstrapping methods small Swedish enterprises exercise and also how they exercise these methods. Furthermore, this study will seek to map which of the identified bootstrapping categories are the most effective at relieving the company’s need of capital.  Theoretical Framework: The theoretical framework in this study compiles theories of The Financial Gap and asymmetrical information. Furthermore, it consists of theories about entrepreneurs and their preferences of capital in The Pecking Order Theory, as well as theories about Financial Bootstrapping and its different methods. Methodology: This thesis has a positivistic and an iterative approach. Furthermore,    this thesis consists of a survey research and applies semi-structured interviews as a method to generate data. The sample in this study consists of owners of small enterprises that meet the criteria for a small business according to the EU. The primary data used in this thesis has been generated through interviews with the selected business owners.  Result: The empirical findings in this thesis consist of a presentation of the data generated from the interviews with ten different business owners from various enterprises. Conclusion: The most frequently-used bootstrapping methods are: Withhold managers salary, share equipment with other businesses, use own credit cards to finance the enterprise, cooperate with other businesses, lease equipment and seek out best conditions with suppliers. Furthermore the findings in this thesis show that relationship-oriented and private owner-financed financial bootstrapping categories are the most effective at relieving the company’s need of capital.

The goal of the paper is to compare impacts of interest rate risk measuring meth-ods on capital requirements. The first section identifies methods for measuring interest rate risk and capital requirements for interest rate risk set by regulators. The second section compares capital requirements of model portfolio calculated by using standardized methods as well as internal models.

This thesis evaluates the regulation of credit institutions. Its aim is to answer the question of how the regulation of credit institutions evolved and how this development influenced current regulation. This thesis examines the potential of credit institution regulation to prevent further financial crises. At first the author deals with the development of the market of financial services and subsequently with the development of regulation of credit institutions. In the first part the author analyses the positive and negative aspects of each piece of legislation, reasons for their adoption, changes or their further use. This thesis deals particularly with capital adequacy requirements. It analyses their gradual development and reason for their amendments, especially in the context of the recent financial crisis. The author concludes that that current se-up of the credit institution regulation and its expected development puts too much emphasis in increasing of the capital adequacy requirements. The author sees this aspect especially in the directive on capital requirements from 2013 which presents new buffers that the credit institutions are required to hold and in the resolution directive from 2014 which adds new, yet similar requirements. The author particularly disagrees with the assessment of...

I ett försök att förhindra framtida bankkriser och göra banker stabilare mot svängningar i ekonomin upprättade Baselkommittén 1993 ett regelverk som kom att benämnas Basel-1. Bankerna skulle bli stabilare genom att stärka kapitaltäckningsreglerna. Dessa regler lyckades inte uppnå sitt syfte och regelverket ansågs otillräckligt. Nya regler utformades och Baselkommittén arbetade fram ett åtstramat regelverk, Basel-2. Den finansiella krisen 2008 visade dock att även Basel-2 regelverket var otillräckligt. Med anledning av detta så har nu Baselkommittén arbetat fram, nya, mer åtstramade regler med högre kapitalkrav för banker som kommer att införas med start 2013 och som kallas Basel-3. För att få en förståelse för hur Basel-3 kan komma att påverka bankerna och några av dess intressenter har två problemformuleringar tagits fram. Hur tror bankkontorschefer att banker kommer att påverkas av det nya regelverket Basel-3? Hur tror bankkontorschefer att deras kunder kommer att påverkas av det nya regelverket Basel-3? Studien har avgränsat sig till banker på Gotland och intervjuer är gjorda med kontorschefer på Handelsbanken, Nordea och Swedbank. Detta för att få svar på hur de tror att regelverket kan komma att påverka bankerna och deras kunder. Vi har använt oss av noggrant utvalda frågor och skapat ett frågeformulär som besvarats av respondenterna. I teoridelen presenteras intressentmodellen för att få en ökad förståelse för vilka intressenter som kan beröras av en organisations förändringar. Den intressent vi tittar närmare på är framförallt bankens kunder. Teori om Baselregelverken baseras i huvudsak på rapporter och artiklar från Sveriges Riksbank, Finansinspektionen och Basels respektive hemsidor. Undersökningen visar att regelverket Basel-3 kommer påverka bankerna och deras kunder på flera sätt. De högre kapitalkraven samt de nya likviditetsreglerna innebär att bankerna måste skaffa mer kvalitativt kapital för att kunna stå emot negativa förändringar i ekonomin. Detta kräver att bankerna måste förändra sina risksystem vilket leder till höga kostnader. Respondenterna tror att dessa kostnader framförallt kommer att läggas på kunderna genom högre räntor. De tror även att regelverket Basel- 3 kommer att påverka de mindre bra kunderna genom att det blir svårare för dessa att få lån. / To prevent the emergence of bank crises and to help banks resist turbulent economy, the Basel Committee created a regulation framework. This framework was introduced in 1993 and was called Basel-1. During the years this framework has been changed to suite new situations. The latest change was done after the financial crises in 2008 and is going to be implemented in 2013. This, latest edition is called Basel-3 and includes among other things a strong capital requirement. Before the implementation of Basel-3 many questions has come to light. To answer some of these, two problem formulations have been created in this thesis. How do the bank office managers think that they will be affected by the new regulations of Basel-3? How do the bank office managers think that their customers will be affected by the new regulations of Basel-3? To seek the answers to these questions, three bank directors have answered quite many questions in interviews and by e-mail. These answers have been formed and put together to get an idea of what they think will happen when the new regulations of Basel-3 will be implemented. When analyzing these answers the authors have found out that both the banks and their customers probably and already have been affected by these new regulations in quite many ways.

Fundamental analysis provides a method which based on global, industrial and corporate information attains to a decision, showing stocks being undervalued or appraised accordingly. The goal of this thesis is to implement and verify adequate methods of fundamental analysis on stocks of bank corporation Commerzbank AG and to give in a background for decision, whether the stocks on the market were evaluated correctly. At the closure of thesis interest lies in analysis of balance entries of Commerzbank and its ever changing structure depending on trends of stock quotes from 1st of Jan 2009 until 30th of September 2012.

Die Baseler Eigenkapitalrichtlinien bilden den umfassenden statuierenden Rahmen für die Regulierung des Eigenkapitals der Banken im internationalen Kontext. Sowohl die Zielsetzung der Baseler Regulierungsakkorde im Allgemeinen als auch die Ausgestaltung der Baseler Richtlinien im Speziellen haben sich angesichts der Entwicklungen der vergangenen drei Jahrzehnte deutlich weiterentwickelt. Neben der Stärkung der Sicherheit und Solidität, der Steigerung der Absorptionsfähigkeit von …nanziellen und ökonomischen Schocks und der Verringerung des moralischen Verhaltens der Banken spielen - insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund der Auswirkungen der jüngsten Finanzkrise - auch Aspekte der Liquiditätssicherung der Banken und die Verringerung der Abhängigkeit vom Interbankenmarkt sowie die Reduzierung der Prozyklizität der Eigenkapitalregulierungen eine bedeutende Rolle in der Zielsetzung der jüngsten Richtlinie Basel III. In dieser Arbeit werden die Konstruktionsmerkmale und Kernelemente der verschiedenen Baseler Regulierungsakkorde in Bezug auf deren Zielsetzungen untersucht und die Fragestellung betrachtet, inwiefern deren wesentliche Konstruktionselemente geeignet sind, die kommunizierten Zielstellungen zu erfüllen.

Solvens II är ett nytt regelverk för försäkringsbolag inom EU som ska träda i kraft 2016. Tidigare forskning har diskuterat effekterna av det nya regelverket och förutspår att det kommer att påverka försäkringsbolagens tillgångsallokering. Syftet med denna studie är att studera optimala tillgångsallokeringar för livbolag, både med avseende på interna krav på risk och avkastning och externa kapitalkrav i Solvens II. En fallstudie utförs på ett svenskt livbolag för att ta fram en modell för optimala tillgångsallokeringar, som även tar hänsyn till livbolagets framtida utbetalningar. En optimal allokering tas fram med hjälp av kvadratisk optimering på risk och kapitalkrav givet en viss förväntad avkastning och den nuvarande allokeringen jämförs med olika optimala portföljer. Resultaten visar att det är möjligt att optimera allokeringen både ur ett risk- och avkastningsperspektiv samt  apitalkravsperspektiv, men att de optimala tillgångsportföljerna skiljer sig åt markant. Detta arbete påvisar att det finns en betydande skillnad på risk, mätt genom antingen historisk volatilitet eller kapitalkrav. Ett exempel är tillgångsklassen hedgefonder som har en låg historisk volatilitet men har ett högt kapitalkrav i Solvens II. Denna studie bidrar till befintlig forskning genom att utveckla ett ramverk för investeringar för ett livbolag i Solvens II som tar hänsyn till kapitalkrav för olika tillgångar. / Solvency II is a new regulatory framework concerning insurance companies in the European Union, to be introduced in 2016. The effects of the regulation have been discussed and previous literature believes it will have a significant effect on insurance companies’ asset allocation. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the optimal asset allocation for a life insurer with respect to internal risk-return requirements and external capital requirements imposed by Solvency II. The thesis performs a case study on a Swedish life insurer for the purpose of developing and evaluating an asset allocation model which incorporates future liabilities of the life insurer. Through quadratic optimization, the asset allocation is optimized for portfolios associated with a certain expected return and the current allocation is compared to optimal portfolios. The results show that it is possible to optimize the asset allocation from both a risk-return and capital requirement perspective. However, they are subject to large shifts in asset allocation. The thesis also shows that there is a large discrepancy of risk from a standard deviation standpoint and regulatory capital charges. One example are hedge funds which have shown a low historical volatility but are classified as an asset with high risk in Solvency II. This study contributes to theory by providing an investment decision framework for life insurers that includes capital charges for asset allocation.

This dissertation explored the efficacy of the new Basel III banking standards in SACU, grounded on the conjecture that they are not reflective of economies of SACU, but are merely an intensification of Basel II, rather than a substantial break with it. Firstly, loans and assets were tested for causality, since Basel III believes growth in these variables led to securitization. The leverage ratio has been introduced in Basel III as an anti-cyclical buffer. The OLS technique was employed to test for its significance in determining growth in bank assets. SACU feels the impact of debt, with credit is marginally treated in Basel III and is not introspective of the realities of its economies. ANOVA tests using debt, credit and GDP were done to determine a better method of addressing cyclicality. The leverage ratio was insignificant in Namibia, with debt and credit having momentous impacts on GDP in SACU. / Economics / M. Com. (Economics)