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Green finance is a new trend in countries’ future financial development, which has far-reaching significance for build resilience against the impacts of climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Whereas due to the importance of this issue, the financial institutions tend to use financial derivatives such as green credit and green bonds to help transform the economy to green. Hence, this paper investigates the impact of green bonds on the banking sector annually from the 2013 up to 2021 for 14 countries, focusing on emerging and developed markets. Green bonds have been measured by log total value of green bonds and green bonds to GDP, while the performance of banking sector is measured by capital adequacy and profitability. Using panel data, the findings indicate that there is a significant impact of the green bonds on banking sectors performance in certain markets. Overall, the results reveal the significant impact of green bond on the performance of banks' sector, most notably on the capital adequacy. This has to be more elaborated through further research to investigate the effect of green bonds on Stock market. JEL classification numbers: E58, G21, Q54, Q58. Keywords: Banking Sector, Developed Markets, Emerging Markets, Financial performance, Green Bonds, Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

This paper attempts at investigating the impact of information security on the performance of Egyptian banks. This has been conducted using a sample of 13 banks (out of 32 banks), during 2013. Information security is measured by the degree of the application of ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS standards on Egyptian Banks, while banks' performance is measured by indicators of profitability and asset quality.ISO 27001 specifies the requirements for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining and improving a documented Information Security Management System (ISMS). Besides Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS) is a comprehensive standard is intended to help organizations protectively protect customer account data.Results indicate that implementation of ISO 27001 standards may affect profitability indicators as measured by "Return on Capital", while implementation of PCI-DSS standard may affect asset quality as measured by "Non-Performing Loan Ratio".

The current situation of the COVID-19 pandemic is poking fear of falling sick, dying, and stigma. Urgent and timely understanding of explaining bank performance with a pandemic sentiment is needed, especially, the literature presented little evidence of this issue. Hence, the researchers investigate the impact of the fear sentiment, measured by a Country Fear Index (CFI) on banks’ performance daily since the onset of the crisis. In addition, we demonstrate the impact of investor assessment, measured through the price-to-book value ratio, on the banks’ performance for 10 emerging markets, focusing on MENA and BRICS countries. We find that the stock performance of banks in emerging markets counties was significantly driven by investors’ irrational fear sentiment. The results reveal the impact significance of CFI on the performance of bank stocks, most notably on the risk side. Hence, results indicate that CFI can be used to predict bank stocks’ risk during crises.