Business Models in European Banking: A Pre- and Post-Crisis Screening

The next few years will be critical for Europe's banking industry. It faces a number of financial sector reforms that will have a decisive impact on the dominant practices and business models followed across the European Union. This timely volume presents the results of the first screening exercise conducted on the performance, stability, risk, efficiency, and corporate governance of twenty-six major European banks—before, during, and after the financial crisis. The authors use those findings to help identify the key strengths and weaknesses inherent in the dominant business models, in light of the upcoming regulatory changes.

Rym Ayadi is senior research fellow and head of the Financial Institutions and Prudential Policy research unit at CEPS. Emrah Arbak is a researcher at CEPS. Willem Pieter de Groen is a research assistant at CEPS. David T. Llewellyn is professor of Money and Banking at Loughborough University, UK, and a visiting professor at the Cass Business School, London, and the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. He provided an overall review and written contributions, including the Foreword.