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In recent years financial conglomerates have been established throughout Europe. This horizontal diversification has attracted a great deal of attention in the banking and insurance sector, as well as alarming the supervisory authorities and the European Commission. This study analyzes different sets of definitions of financial conglomerates, groups, consolidation criteria, and tests the practical effects of these definitions on the basis of a detailed relational database. It also examines the benefits of financial conglomerates as well as the differences in regulation of the solvency requirements for banks, insurance companies and investment firms in order to look for a possible approach for calculating the necessary level of solvency for financial conglomerates.

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Author:   L. van den Berghe
Publisher:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   1995 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.000kg
ISBN:  

9780792337539

ISBN 10:   0792337530
Pages:   178
Publication Date:   31 October 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword. 1. Defining financial conglomerates. Combining economic and legal approaches. Appendix 1.A. Relevant definitions. 2. Defining financial conglomerates; Discussion. Appendix 2.A. Financial institutions. 3. Application of the most relevant definitions to the relational database. 4. Financial conglomerates; risks? 5. Solvency regulations for financial conglomerates. Appendix 5.A. Credit institutions. Appendix 5.B. Insurance companies. Appendix 5.C. Comparison of own funds. 6. Research into the possibility of a global approach for the calculation of the solvency requirements of financial conglomerates. Appendix 6.A. Theoretical problems in the application of the banking rules to insurance companies. Appendix 6.B. Simulation exercises. Appendix 6.C. Correction: minimum solvency levels. 7. Financial conglomerates, solvency and risks. Appendix 7.A. Thresholds and minimum guarantee funds. 8. Why financial conglomerates? Strategic issues. 9. Summary and conclusions. Index. Bibliographic references.

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