In response to post‐crisis regulatory reforms, the European banking sector has undergone
significant changes that have led banks to reconsider their strategies, structures and …

We propose a clustering method for large dimensional data to classify the 365 largest euro
area financial institutions according to their business model. The proposed clustering …

How can we leverage inherent frequency features of stock signals for effective portfolio
optimization? Portfolio optimization in the domain of finance revolves around strategically …

This paper examines which business choices are more likely to increase the profitability and
distance to distress of banks, and whether changing business model pays off. We find that …

Our study examines the relationship between bank business models (BBMs) and the cost
and profit efficiency of cooperative banks from fifteen European countries over the period …

Using a large sample of banks from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and African
countries, we identify bank business models in the region. We use an Activity-Funding …

Financial risk prediction is an important technique to systematically predict the
unforeseeable risks in banking systems. The issues involving ill‐timing and low accuracy in …

Research in banking and finance is being profoundly shaped by recent crises and events.
This paper offers a synopsis of the trends in global uncertainty over the past twenty years …

A major concern of the adoption and scalability of Blockchain technologies refers to their
efficient use for payments. In this work, we analyze how Lightning Network (LN), which …

This paper investigates the way in which the financial market defines and evaluates different
business models, using a sample of listed European banking groups from 2006 to 2015. The …