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Credit Losses in Nordic Banks

In: The Changing Face of European Banks and Securities Market

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  • Ted Lindblom

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In the 1980s the central banks of the Nordic countries began to deregu- late their financial markets. Within the space of a few years, several of the existing regulations were abolished that had for long restricted banks' lending volumes, interest rate setting and foreign exchange. For the banks a door was opened to a new world; the changed environment offered exciting business opportunities. The demand for new loans seemed almost infinite, but simultaneously the competition between banks, and between banks and other financial institutions, was strength- ened. Therefore, many banks reorganised and decentralised their busi- ness. Competitiveness and market (customer) orientation became buzz words and were considered by many banks to be strategical key factors for success. Branches became profit centres and, within certain limits, the authority to make credit decisions was often delegated to the local branch manager. The new world, however, was also a world of which most of the banks had no real experience and, apparently, very limited understanding. Today it is obvious that the majority failed to realise the magnitude of the underlying credit risk exposure when expanding the loan portfolio.

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  • Ted Lindblom, 1994. "Credit Losses in Nordic Banks," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Jack Revell (ed.), The Changing Face of European Banks and Securities Market, chapter 0, pages 174-190, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-23141-6_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-23141-6_9
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    1. Boon L. Lee & Andrew C. Worthington & Wai Ho Leong, 2010. "Malmquist Indices Of Pre- And Post-Deregulation Productivity, Efficiency And Technological Change In The Singaporean Banking Sector," The Singapore Economic Review (SER), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 55(04), pages 599-618.
    2. Adrian E. Tschoegl, 2004. "Financial Crises and the Presence of Foreign Banks," International Finance 0405016, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Engwall, Lars & Marquardt, Rolf & Pedersen, Torben & Tschoegl, Adrian E., 2001. "Foreign bank penetration of newly opened markets in the Nordic countries," Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Elsevier, vol. 11(1), pages 53-63, March.
    4. Bergendahl, Goran & Lindblom, Ted, 2008. "Evaluating the performance of Swedish savings banks according to service efficiency," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 185(3), pages 1663-1673, March.
    5. Tschoegl, Adrian E., 2002. "Entry and survival: the case of foreign banks in Norway," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 18(2), pages 131-153, June.

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