The Islamic development bank
Thesis - 5 pages - Finance
The development of a consistent banking system with adequate funding for a population appears to be a prerequisite for the economic development of a country. However the ethics of Fundamentalist Islam have long led a strong resistance to the development of modern financial tools in many parts of...
US banks - Strategic project
Thesis - 5 pages - Finance
U.S. banks have traditionally been considered leaders in the global banking sector. They produce regularly high profitability, more than their international competitors. They have been pioneers in many spheres, and banking products, and are known for their constant innovation. Several...
The banking risk management
Dissertation - 36 pages - Finance
The risk of diversification is a basic precept of the banking activity. A big part of the large banking failures was due, in a way or another, to a concentration of the credit risk. The banking controlling authorities have, at all times, strongly encouraged the banks placed under their...
The growing impact of operational risks and its application to banks
Dissertation - 70 pages - Finance
Since their implementation in the banks in January 2007, operational risks are considered a main point of the strategy of banks. Operational risks are defined as “the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems, or from external...
A banker's role in approving a project
Thesis - 2 pages - Finance
Earlier, the role of a banker was mainly that of a money lender. Today, many businesses have ventured into insurance, real estate, personal services and e-banking. Traditionally, the bank played the role of an intermediation, that is to say, it collected and lent money by making...
Rise of The World Bank
Thesis - 5 pages - Finance
The World Bank and the IMF are the main institutions which perform the function of managing globalization in financial terms. This paper will present a case study of the World Bank. The World Bank Group appoints five institutions that are intended to promote, economic...
Barclays Bank: Financial performance
Thesis - 3 pages - Finance
This report will be concerned with comprehensively analyzing the financial performance of Barclays Bank. The main areas of focus of the report will be on the Return on capital employed (ROCE), current ratio figures and gearing ratio figures of the company for the last three financial...
Communication plan for the online broker 'Binckbank.fr'
Case study - 9 pages - Services marketing
Binckbank is an American company founded in the year 2000. It employs 560 people throughout the world and has about 300,000 account holders. In France, the Binckbank's subsidiary offers two services: securities account to invest in stock trades, and provision of bank accounts to take...
Policies and analysis of the liberalization of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Thesis - 7 pages - International relations
The International Monetary Fund and World Bank were both formed at an international conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire (USA) in June 1944. The conference participants were keen to establish a framework for cooperation and economic development that would lay the groundwork for...
Principal component filter banks for optimal multi-resolution analysis
Thesis - 9 pages - Computer science
An important issue in multi-resolution analysis is that of optimal basis selection. An optimal P-band perfect reconstruction filter bank (PRFB) is derived in this seminar, which minimizes that approximation error (in the mean square) between the original signal and its low resolution...
Is "Al-Dar Islamic Fund", created by Pictet, a Geneva based Private Bank, Islamic compliant?
Essay - 10 pages - Finance
Who has created the ?Al-Dar Islamic Fund'? Is it Pictet which is a Geneva based Private Bank which is in compliance with the Islamic culture? The answer to this buzzing mind boggling question is ?No'. As confirmed, the contained shares are not Islamic compliant and secondly the...
Customer retention in financial institutions (banks)
Thesis - 6 pages - Management
The customer loyalty program was first implemented by American Airlines in the United States in the year 1981. Today, virtually all airlines have adopted the customer loyalty program and is currently followed by other business sectors. Ever since the initiation of the customer loyalty program in...
The need to protect the U.S. banking sector
Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general
The Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD,) presented its analysis of the American financial crisis in the summer of 2008 as “The turmoil faced by the financial markets is increasingly showing signs of calming down. “ Contrary to this optimistic forecast, the U.S....
The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Federal Reserve System (FED)
Presentation - 23 pages - Economy general
This document is a presentation of the European Central Bank (ECB). The national central banks (NCB) make part of the ESCB Headquarters based in Frankfurt Presentation of the FED, which was created in 1913 by the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act and headquartered in Washington...
Comparison between the US and Japanese banking systems
Dissertation - 11 pages - Economy general
The Japanese and the Americans have different perceptions of time. This difference exists as part of their culture and the values they advocate. The cultural, political and historical background consequently leads to two different banking forms: the bank-based and the market-based systems....
The European Central Bank (ECB)
Essay - 14 pages - European union
The Eurosystem includes the national central bank (NCB) and the European central bank (ECB). All states that have central bank in the eurosystem are in the European Union and there are 27 member states. The countries which have not adopted the Euro but that are in the...
Customer relationship management in banks
Thesis - 25 pages - Management
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is at the core of any customer-focused business strategy and includes the people, processes and technology questions associated with marketing, sales and service. Simply stated, CRM is about finding, getting and retaining customers. The aim of these systems...
Money and transaction over the internet: Online banking
Thesis - 28 pages - Finance
The advent of internet has initiated an electronic revolution in the global banking sector. The dynamic and flexible nature of this communication channel as well as its ubiquitous reach has helped in leveraging a variety of banking activities. New banking intermediaries offering entirely new...
The ABN Amro bank
Thesis - 7 pages - Business strategy
On 29 March 1824 King Willem-I issued a royal decree creating the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij with the aim of reviving trade between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. In 1964, NHM merged with De Twentsche Bank to form Alegeme Bank Nederland (ABN), while Amsterdamsche...
A survey on customers to understand Standard Chartered bank's market penetration in India
Thesis - 6 pages - Business strategy
Primary data: The data has been collected with the help of a questionnaire with a view of obtaining the information on all the aspects relating to the banking industry in general and Standard Chartered specifically. Secondary data: This data has been collected through Internet analysis tools:...
Banking and insurance: The money market
Case study - 26 pages - Finance
The money market is a market for financial assets that are close substitutes for money. It is a market for overnight to short-term funds and instruments having a maturity period of one or less than one year. It is not a place (like the Stock Market), but an activity conducted by telephone. The...
Effect of change in Basel standards in the banking industry
Case study - 38 pages - Finance
As the deadline for implementing the Basel-III norms in Indian banks has arrived they are still preparing to solve the enigma of risk management for insuring more transparent and risk-free financial bases. According to the Reserve Bank of India, its association with the Basel...
Creativity and innovation in retail banking: Comparative analysis of financial products offered by banks
Case study - 27 pages - Finance
A bank is a financial institution whose primary activity is to act as a payment agent for customers and to borrow and lend money. It is an institution for receiving, keeping, and lending money. Banking in India originated in the last decades of the 18th century. Central banking is the...
Retail Banking with ING Vysya
Case study - 103 pages - Finance
Today retail banking has emerged as the dark horse in banking sector. Low interest rates and booming consumerism have unleashed credit off take in retail segment in a big way. The personal banking segment customers have become the center of attraction... Credit exposures through personal loans...
Credit appraisal system at Standard Chartered Bank and the SME credit department
Dissertation - 68 pages - Finance
The ongoing development of contemporary risk management methods and the increased use of innovative financial products such as securitization and credit derivatives have brought about substantial changes in the business environment faced by credit institutions today. Especially in the field of...
A study on the financial performance of the State Bank of India with reference to camel model
Dissertation - 41 pages - Finance
The Analyst has come up with a special issue on the banking industry for a third consecutive year. To assess Indian banks, The Analyst adopted the world-renowned CAMEL model (with minor modifications). The reason being, the CAMEL model is simple and makes it easy to compare a wide range of...
Knowing more about electronic banking
Thesis - 27 pages - Finance
Electronic banking, also known as electronic funds transfer (EFT), is simply the use of electronic means to transfer funds directly from one account to another, rather than by cheque or cash. Internet banking system is a method by which a personal computer is connected by a network service...
The functional areas of Standard Chartered Bank in India
Case study - 17 pages - Management
Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) had acquired the interest of ANZ Banking Group in the ANZ Grind lays Asset Management Company Private Limited and ANZ Grind lays Trustee Company Private Limited and subsequently these entities were renamed as Standard Chartered Asset Management Company Private...
Analysis of the banking sector with respect to six banks: Public sector & private sector
Case study - 19 pages - Finance
In this project six banks are taken on the basis of highest profits after tax. Three Banks are from the Public Sector and three from the Private Sector. First comes an analysis of the banking system which tells you about the Basel II norms which are applicable in India in every...
Comparative analysis of different banking products: Customers in Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd
Case study - 50 pages - Finance
Banking in India has its origin as early as the Vedic period. It is believed that the transaction from money lending to banking must have occurred even before Manu, the great Hindu Jurist, who has devoted a section of his work to deposits and advances and laid down rules relating to rates of...
