O processo de modernização dos mercados financeiros e de capitais no período compreendido entre 1964 e 2004 é analisado em detalhes, bem como sua correlação com o crescimento econômico brasileiro. São apresentadas, de forma cronológica, as ações desencadeadas durante o período de quarenta anos, pelas autoridades econômicas e pelo Congresso Nacional, para a regulamentação e normatização dos mercados financeiros e de capitais. Na seqüência se analisa de modo detalhado o comportamento da economia brasileira durante todo o período, por meio de um conjunto de estatísticas que mostram os diferentes aspectos macroeconômicos. Esta análise é complementada pelo estudo do comportamento das principais variáveis do mercado financeiro e do mercado de capitais. Discute-se, por fim, a questão teórica das relações entre o desenvolvimento financeiro e o crescimento econômico, mostrando que existe uma relação direta entre o primeiro e o segundo, na medida em que o desenvolvimento financeiro gera crescimento econômico / This dissertation analyses the process of modernization of the Brazilian financial and capital markets and its correlation to the growth and development of the Brazilian economy during the period 1964 to 2004. This dissertation also describes in a chronological fashion, for the past four decades, the policies implemented by the Brazilian economic authorities as well as the ones approved by the Brazilian Congress aimed at establishing the rules and regulations for the Brazilian financial and capital markets. Moreover, the evolution of the Brazilian economy for this period is discussed. A substantial amount of economic data is used to study the different macroeconomic changes that took place during the period under study. Finally, this dissertation elaborates and adds to the theoretical discussion: as to whether or not there is a relationship between economic growth and financial development. This dissertation shows that there is direct relationship between the two, since financial development generates economic growth

O mercado financeiro brasileiro é caracterizado pela elevada concentração bancária, onde os cinco maiores bancos detêm a maior parte dos ativos financeiros. Bancos pequenos e médios têm que disputar espaços com os grandes conglomerados financeiros. Questões como economia de escala e custo de observância às normas são essenciais para a sobrevivência destas instituições menores. A aprovação para a constituição de instituições financeiras no País é dada pelo Banco Central do Brasil, que estabelece os valores de capital mínimo, em função da modalidade de instituição. Por sua vez, o Comitê de Supervisão Bancária de Basiléia estabelece os padrões máximos de alavancagem, o que indica qual volume de carteira pode ser contratado, dado este patrimônio. Este trabalho tem como objetivo verificar se os valores de capital mínimo estabelecidos pelo Banco Central do Brasil são compatíveis com a estrutura de custo das instituições, e com o objetivo de retorno dos acionistas. Serão utilizados dados dos demonstrativos das instituições financeiras e, com base em modelo de regressão de dados em painel estático, será construída uma curva de retornos em função do porte da instituição. Este retorno, comparado com o custo de capital calculado pelo CAPM indicará a partir de que porte uma instituição financeira é viável. / The Brazilian financial market is characterized by its huge banking concentration, where the five largest banks hold most part of the assets. Small and medium size financial institutions have to compete with the larger financial conglomerates. Economy of scale and cost of compliance issues are essential for the survival of the smaller institutions. The approval of a new financial institution is given by the Brazilian Central Bank, who establishes the minimum equity value, depending on the type of institution intended. Additionally, the Basle Committee on Banking Supervision fixes the maximum leverage standards, what indicates the maximum credit portfolio possible, given this equity value. This thesis aims to verify if the minimum equity value established by the Brazilian Central Bank is compatible with the banks operational cost and the shareholder return objective. Data of the financial statements will be used in conjunction with static panel regressions, to construct the return curve regarding the dimension of the institution. This will be compared with the shareholder cost of capital, estimated by de CAPM, to indicate the minimum dimension, which makes feasible the institution.

Este trabalho constitui uma etnografia da performance de um assalto contra instituição financeira. Inicio o texto esboçando uma reflexão sobre o material empírico utilizado e as estratégias adotadas para obtê-los. Discorro sobre os dilemas e tensões que vivenciei durante a realização do trabalho de campo, possibilitado por extensas interlocuções com criminosos reclusos em penitenciárias ou foragidos da Justiça. Em seguida, analiso procedimentos e iniciativas mobilizadas por uma equipe de assaltantes, organizando e executando um roubo milionário contra uma empresa de guarda-valores, enfatizando afinidades e conflitos entre os participantes da complexa investida. A partir da perspectiva de análise da performance de Erving Goffman, que se coloca como observador da vida cotidiana, assinalo as prerrogativas para elaboração de fachadas e faces pelos chamados assaltantes de banco, tanto nos períodos de elaboração de suas operações criminosas como em suas rotinas na clandestinidade, balizadas por inconstâncias e riscos. Com base nas noções de liminaridade e experiência de Victor Turner, ressalto as implicações da participação em grandes roubos sobre o dia-a-dia e a trajetória das pessoas que adotam esse ofício ilegal como alternativa de vida e estratégia de ascensão social, focalizando as singularidades em suas identidades e noções do eu. / This work is an ethnography that leads with an assault against a financial institution. I begin the text with a reflection under the empirical material and the skills that I use to get them. Then, at that point, I articulate the dilemmas and tensions that I experienced during the fieldwork through my long contact with recluse criminals and outlaws. Next I analyze the procedures and efforts of a team of robbers that mastermind a conspiracy to rob a large quantity of money from a private security company. I guess on the affinities and conflicts between the members of this complex project. My perspective is on the conception of performance analysis by Erving Goffman, that puts himself in the position of a daily observer. Through this method I noticed the building of façades by the so- called bank robbers in the periods that they are projecting their criminal actions and in their routine full of risks and uncertainties like outsiders. With the notions of liminal and experience by Victor Turner I observe the consequences of the involvement in the great robberies under their daily life and personal trajectories making use of illegal acts as life alternative and way to social ascent. One of my central points is to focus in the singularities of their identities and notions of themselves.

The Bayesian approach to logistic regression modelling for credit scoring is useful when there are data quantity issues. Data quantity issues might occur when a bank is opening in a new location or there is change in the scoring procedure. Making use of prior information (available from the coefficients estimated on other data sets, or expert knowledge about the coefficients) a Bayesian approach is proposed to improve the credit scoring models. To achieve this, a data set is split into two sets, “old” data and “new” data. Priors are obtained from a model fitted on the “old” data. This model is assumed to be a scoring model used by a financial institution in the current location. The financial institution is then assumed to expand into a new economic location where there is limited data. The priors from the model on the “old” data are then combined in a Bayesian model with the “new” data to obtain a model which represents all the available information. The predictive performance of this Bayesian model is compared to a model which does not make use of any prior information. It is found that the use of relevant prior information improves the predictive performance when the size of the “new” data is small. As the size of the “new” data increases, the importance of including prior information decreases

The thesis titled "More is Less: The Political Economy of the MiFID Revision" aims to reveal to what extent different preferences of individual Member States on EU financial regulation affect the increase in complexity of financial legislative acts, concretely MiFID II. Using three theoretical building-blocks in a classical framework of political economy, we argue that divergence of member states is inherent to their different capitalist environments (Varieties of Capitalism). Aligning these differences with the common, harmonized regime can create costs and cause market disadvantages. Therefore, Member States try to push for as similar legislation to their own as possible, to minimize the costs. The result is a disproportionately long legislative act, that was crafted in a way to satisfy individual preferences of Member States, through discretionary provisions, exemptions and other. We also investigate how much harmonization the original MiFID established, asking if some provision became less complicated in MiFID II, owing to gradual convergence of Member State regimes.

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歷經兩次金改，我國本國銀行的家數從2000年最高峰53間，降至2014年的39間，但國內銀行金融服務市場已趨飽和，銀行家數過多且規模過小的現象仍然存在，近年存放款利差縮小，銀行間價格競爭日趨激烈，對於整體銀行業的獲利能力影響甚鉅。為利我國銀行掌握亞洲經濟成長契機，提升獲利及國際競爭力，金融監督管理委員會自2013年起推動金融業布局亞洲，提出「金融業打亞洲盃」的政策宣言，鼓勵金融業整併或參股海外機構以擴大規模。 元大金控係以證券投資服務為主體而發展之金融控股公司，亦是金融監督管理委員會點名最積極投入打亞洲盃的金控之一，2015年8月元大金控宣布併購大眾銀行，合併後由子公司元大銀行為存續公司。本研究採個案研究法，以元大金控併購大眾銀行為例，個別探討雙方發展現況及併購動機，並分析此併購案的策略目的及併購綜效。 本研究結果得出，元大金控藉由合併大眾銀行將產生以下併購綜效：(一)規模經濟效益、(二)均衡業務結構、(三)提升銀行獲利貢獻、(四)維持穩健資產品質，元大金控藉此拉升銀行業務的恆常獲利貢獻，進而轉型成證券及銀行雙主軸的金控，同時取得大眾銀行的香港分行，以香港為前進大陸的發展據點，經營兩岸三地金融服務市場，有助其朝向「亞太區最佳金融服務提供者」之願景邁進。 / After going through two financial reforms, the number of the banks in Taiwan had decreased from 53 banks in 2000 to around 39 banks in 2014. Still, the problem of an excess of the banking operators had persisted. Due to the saturated Taiwanese domestic market for commercial banking services, the interest spread had thinned remarkably and this oppressive situation had drawn the local commercial banks into a price war on interest rates on deposits and loans. In 2013, following the growing concern over the price competition and in the hope of enhancing international competiveness of Taiwan’s banking industry, Financial Supervisory Commission unveiled its plan—Asia Cup policy—to promote consolidation of domestic financial institutions and encourage them to invest overseas market to further scale up the business. Yuanta Financial Holdings, one of the holding companies that actively seek overseas business opportunities, was the biggest securities broker in Taiwan. After completing the acquisitions and mergers of Ta Chong bank in August 2015, the company not only remains the leading position in securities market but also further strengthens its banking business. The thesis is based on the M&A case, and the purpose of the study is to determine the reasons and motivations behind the M&A between two financial institutions as well as the company’s current development in order to analyze and understand what are synergistic gains that two banks benefit from the merger. In short, the study suggests that the merger between Yaunta financial holdings and Ta Chong Bank has created following M&A synergies—realizing economies of scale, balancing business structure, enhancing banking profitability, and maintaining steady asset quality. After merging with Ta Chong bank, Yaunta financial holdings transitioned from a securities brokerage-focused company to a holding company focused on Twins Pillar of securities and banking operations. Also, company’s Hong Kong branch, which was acquired from the M&A, will serve as a firm foothold in Chinese market in order for this banking giant Yaunta to achieve the goal of becoming best financial service provider in the Asia Pacific region.

This research investigates the relationship between organisational culture and financial performance in a selected financial services institution in South Africa. The banking sector as part of the financial services industry contributes to economic growth in the economy. The banking sector in South Africa is highly concentrated, but also highly competitive. It is important for banks to retain their competitiveness and increased global competition places further pressure on banks to perform financially in order to satisfy the demands of shareholders. The literature reviewed and previous studies both suggest that organisational culture is an important variable that influences organisational performance. For purposes of this research, organisational performance will be measured in terms of financial performance. The concepts of organisational culture and financial performance are discussed and a questionnaire based on Hall’s (1988) theory of organisational competence is used to determine the strength of the levels of the dimensions of competence as indicators of organisational culture within the selected financial institution. The financial performance of the branches within the organisation is determined by calculating certain selected financial performance ratios, namely cost-to-income ratio, cumulative leverage and contribution per employee. A correlation analysis is conducted in order to establish whether there is a statistically significant relationship between organisational culture and financial performance. A conclusion is drawn that there is a statistically significant relationship between the organisational culture and the financial performance of the branches of the selected institution and recommendations are made as to how financial performance can be improved by strengthening the dimensions of competence as indicators of organisational culture. These recommendations include specific actions that can be taken by leaders to improve commitment, collaboration and creativity.

The theme of this thesis is the financial sector regulators' response to the recent financial crisis. The aim of the thesis is to evaluate new approaches to financial sector regulation and to answer the question whether financial regulators could learn from their past experience. The introductory section is devoted to a brief study of the reasons for the crisis and mistakes on the part of regulation and supervision. The analytical part deals with the analysis of the most significant changes in the regulation of the financial sector, which were a reaction to the financial crisis: the reform of supervision in the European Union, especially the new architecture of the supervisory and management approaches used for banks in crisis, changes of CRD and the taxation of financial institutions.

La lutte contre la corruption constitue, depuis une vingtaine d'année, une priorité, tant pour les États que du point de vue international. D'abord, fondée sur le blanchiment de capitaux, notamment issus de trafics de stupéfiants et du terrorisme, la lutte contre la corruption tend désormais à devenir autonome. Le secteur bancaire et financier par lequel transitent des flux financiers licites et illicites, et qui a subi des crises et scandales considérables dans les dernières années, paraît susceptible d'être le réceptacle d'opérations de corruption, sans pour autant que cette question n'ait été ni pensée, ni ait formé véritablement le socle d'une action résolue des instances internationales et nationales. Il devenait, dès lors, nécessaire de s'interroger sur le système d'intégrité bancaire et financier (SIBF), dans ses versants préventif et répressif. Il en est ressorti que ce dernier, à l'instigation d'organisations internationales et consécutivement à des traumatismes politiques et financiers, a subi en quelques années une importante évolution. Ce développement a conduit, d'abord, au renforcement des dispositifs de prévention dans les établissements bancaires et financiers. Il a, ensuite, offert de nouvelles ressources au système judiciaire, par exemple, à travers le procureur de la République financier et l'enrichissement de ses méthodes d'enquêtes. Le SIBF, cependant, éprouve des difficultés graves pour contrer efficacement les menaces de la corruption qui restent en mouvement constant. Aussi conviendrait-il que les pouvoirs publics mettent résolument en œuvre des politiques publiques fortes dans le domaine, qui pourraient s'inspirer des propositions formulées à la fin de cette thèse. / For about twenty years, on a State and international basis, the fight against corruption has constituted a priority. Originally based on money laundering, essentially from drug trafficking and terrorism, the fight against corruption is nowadays tending to become autonomous. In the past years, the banking and financial sector, transited by lawful and illicit financial flows, has not been able to avoid considerable crises and scandals. This sector seems to be a haven for corruption operations ; though, this question has never really been taken into account, nor being thought as to form a common base for a resolute international and national response. It then becomes necessary to wonder about the banking and financial integrity system (SIBF), in both its preventive and repressive sides. At the instigation of international organisations and responsivly to political and financial traumatisms, the SIBF has undertaken a tremendous development. This evolution led, first, to the strengthening of the prevention mechanisms in the banking and financial institutions. It also offered new developments for the judiciary means, such as the instauration of the national financial prosecutor and the enrichment of his means of investigation. However, the SIBF presents serious difficulties for efficiently countering the constantly moving and evolving corruption threats. It would be then necessary that the concerned authorities implement resolutely strong public policies in this domain, which could be inspired by the proposals formulated at the end of this thesis.