4  BIS Review 95/2006  The comparative picture, the approaches adopted in national and Community legislation, and the longstanding orientations of international organizations suggest the usefulness of reflecting further on the possible configurations of the Bank’s ownership and comparing the principles referred to above with the solution chosen by Law 262/2005. 3.
BIS Review 21/2007  1  In contrast, larger banks tend to have a comparative advantage with larger, more mature firms for whom quantitative, or “hard,” information, such as longer, more-detailed credit histories, is relatively easy to obtain (Petersen and Rajan, 1994). The distinction between community banks and large banks, however, is clearly changing.