Theme: Monitoring Bank Borrowers with Loan-Level Data: The Value of Combining Information Signals from Multiple Banks

Speaker: Professor Bin Ke, National University of Singapore Business School

Host: Professor Xuesong Tang, Dean of School of Accounting, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

Time: 10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m., December 11, 2025 , Thursday

Place: Room 720, Chengzheng Building, Liulin Campus

Sponsors: Research Team on Fundamental Theories and Innovative Practices of Digital Economy; Research Team on Theoretical Innovation and Methodological Systems of Finance and Accounting with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era; School of Accounting; Office of Academic Research

Introduction of the speaker:

Professor Bin Ke is a Professor of Accounting at the National University of Singapore Business School, where he also holds the title of Provost's Chair Professor and serves as the Director of the Center for Asian Accounting Research. He obtained his PhD from Michigan State University in 1999 and previously served as a professor in the Accounting Department at the Pennsylvania State University and Nanyang Technological University.

Professor Ke is widely recognized for his outstanding contributions to accounting research in North American accounting and is a distinguished representative of Chinese accounting scholars in North American. He has been appointed as a Cheung Kong Scholars Chair Professor by the Chinese Ministry of Education and has been selected for the Shanghai Thousand Talents Plan. He has also served as president of the Chinese Accounting Professors' Association of North America and a member of the Selection Committee for the American Accounting Association’s (AAA) Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Research Award.

Professor Ke’s research interests focus on addressing increasingly complex business issues using both traditional and interdisciplinary research approaches. He has published over 20 papers in top-tier international accounting journals. He previously served as an editor of The Accounting Review and currently acts as an Associate Editor of Asian Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics, as well as a member of the editorial boards of leading international journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of American Taxation Association, and The International Journal of Accounting.

Abstract:

This lecture focus on investigating whether combining a bank's proprietary loan information with concurrent loan information held by competing banks can yield a more effective loan-performance monitoring system, with a primary focus on bank lending to SMEs.