Pillar 3: Does banking regulation support stakeholders' interest in banks financial and risk profile?

PLoS One. 2021 Oct 27;16(10):e0258449. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258449. eCollection 2021.

Abstract

The paper examines the interest of the commercial banks' stakeholders in Pillar 3 disclosures and their behaviour during the timing of serious market turbulence. The aim is to discover to which extent current banking regulation supports stakeholders' interest in the information required by regulators to be disclosed. The examined data consists of log files that were pre-processed using web mining techniques and from which were extracted frequent item sets by quarters and evaluated in terms of quantity. The authors have proposed a methodology to evaluate frequent item sets of web parts over a dedicated time. Based on the verification of applied methodology on two commercial banks, the results show that stakeholders' interest in disclosures is highest in the first quarter at each year and after turbulent times in 2009 their interests decreased. Moreover, the results suggest that stakeholders expressed higher interest than in regulatory required Pillar 3 information in the following group of information: Pillar3 related information, Annual reports, Information on Group. Following our results, the paper contributes to cover the gap in the research by analysing Pillar 3 disclosures and their compliance with regulatory requirements, which also increase the interest of the relevant stakeholders to conduce them as an effective market discipline tool.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

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Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic (ME SR) and Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) under the contract No. VEGA-1/0821/21 (MM), also by the scientific research project of the Czech Sciences Foundation Grant No. 19-15498S (MM). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.