Search results for "Risk Disclosure"

Derivative Disclosure Practices in the Annual Financial Reporting of Large European Banks: A Cross-country Empirical Study

2018

The topic of this paper is derivative reporting in banking. The authors employ content analysis to conduct an empirical study on a sample of large European banks. The research aims to assess the qualitative and quantitative profiles of derivative disclosure in banking institutions. The paper provides evidences that banks differ in their derivative reporting, even though they are subject to similar regulatory requirements and accounting standards. The paper also shows that there is room to improve various aspects of derivatives disclosure in banking.

Credit Risk Disclosure Practices in the Annual Financial Reporting of Large Italian Banks: An Empirical Study

2018

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the qualitative and quantitative profiles of the disclosure of credit risk in banking institutions. The authors employ content analysis to conduct an empirical study on a sample of large Italian banks. The sample represents approximately 60% of the Italian banking industry in terms of total assets.

Market Risk Disclosure in Banks’ Balance Sheet and Pillar 3 Report: the Case of Italian Banks

2018

The aim of this chapter is to investigate market risk disclosure in banking. The author employs content analysis to conduct an empirical study on a sample of the ten largest Italian banks. The study provides evidence that banks differ in their market risk reporting, even though they are subject to similar regulatory requirements and accounting standards. It also shows that there is room to improve various aspects of risk disclosure, and provides some useful insights for further research. The structure of this chapter is as follows. Section 1 introduces market risk disclosure in banking. Section 2 provides the theoretical foundations of risk disclosure. Section 3 analyses the specific nature…

How Banks Disclose Market Risk Information: an Empirical Analysis on a Sample of Italian Banks.

The topic of this paper is market risk reporting in banking, and its purpose is to provide a methodology to evaluate the qualitative and quantitative profiles of market risk disclosure. This methodology, based on a hybrid scoring approach, aims to assess the market risk disclosure in banking. In this paper, I use content analysis to conduct an empirical research on a sample of Italian banks. The paper provides evidences that banks differ in their market risk reporting, even though they are subject to similar regulatory requirements and accounting standards. The paper also shows that there is room to improve various aspects of market risk disclosure.