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title: Geopolitical Risk in Banks
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5198995/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 5198995
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5198995
featured: 2025-04-02
citations: unknown
topic: Risk, Credit & Banking
---


# Geopolitical Risk in Banks

The Russia-Ukraine conflict has increased geopolitical risk premiums in European banks' debt and equity markets, especially for banks with significant credit exposures to Russia.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5198995
- Identifier: SSRN 5198995
- Released: 2025-03-31
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 91 (2025-04-02): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-04-02/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Risk, Credit & Banking

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