Although supply chain finance appears to offer a win-win-win proposition for buyers, suppliers and banks, buyers have been reluctant to adopt these solutions. It has been suggested that accounting requirements on supply chain finance render its adoption unattractive for buyers through reclassification of accounts payable to debt, thus increasing the debt held by the buyer on their balance sheet.

To investigate whether this is indeed the case, preliminary research was carried out through interviews with four financial organisations.

The recent global financial crisis has served as a stark reminder of the crucial role of systematic stress testing of financial institutions' portfolios, particularly, their lending books. In response to the regulatory deficiencies thus revealed, Basel III is seeking to achieve the broader macroprudential goal of protecting the banking sector from periods of excess credit growth by requesting longer horizon default probabilities, downturn loss-given-default measures and improved calibration of risk models.

A Mixture of Markov Chains (MMC) approach is proposed to estimate credit rating migration risk that controls for the business-cycle evolution during the relevant time horizon in order to ensure adequate capital buffers both in good and bad times.

During the global crisis central banks were accused of undertaking unconventional measures that some commentators claimed went beyond their mandate. This article focuses on central banks intervening in the money markets as a middle man. It argues that such actions can be welfare improving, but are unlikely to be fiscally neutral, thus raising questions about whether they should be left to a central bank.

In inflationary environments, companies can avoid paying cash dividends to their shareholders. Instead they give them free shares, referred to as bonus distributions. This issue has not been analysed in previous studies, partly because the inflation in many western countries is relatively low and stable.

In this study, the market valuation of this unusual form of stock dividends was assessed, this was carried out by transferring the accumulated equity reserves, mainly the inflation revaluation equity reserves, to paid-in capital leaving the total equity unchanged.