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Description The amount and quality of the Australian banking sector's capital has increased considerably over the past couple of years. As in a number of other countries, this is because the recent global financial crisis has prompted both markets and regulators to reappraise their views on...

Description This study aims to investigate the impact of IT loans on the performance of banks. Using panel data covering the period from 1998 to 2002, the results of the empirical analysis indicate that such IT loans have a significant negative influence as banks increase their loan ratios to...

Barclays PLC Results Announcement 30 June 2014 Barclays PLC – 2014 Interim Results Table of Contents Results Announcement Page Performance Highlights 3-4 Group Chief Executive’s Review 5 Group Finance Director’s Review 6-8 Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements...

Description Until recently, many of the banks in developing countries were state owned or locally established with varied mandates to focus on different sectors of the economy. Some of these state banks are bedevilled with peculiar set of challenges making some of them inefficient and...

Description The popular belief is that retail deposits, instead of being used to fund "safe" traditional retail lending like mortgages, were used to fund high-risk derivatives trading on the international capital markets. Copyright © 2013 Fekete Research. All rights reserved...

Description Comparative Study on the Performance of Selected Public Sector Bank and Private Sector Bank, Banks are key financial intermediaries or institutions that serve as "middle man" in the transfer of fund from servers to those who invest in real assets as house, equipment and factories...

Description Banks play an important role in the economic development of every nation. They have control over a large part of the supply of money in circulation. A bank is a financial intermediary that accepts deposits and channels those deposits into lending activities. Banks are a fundamental...

Description This paper investigates the performance of South Africa's commercial banking sector for the period 2005 - 2009. Financial ratios are employed to measure the profitability, liquidity and credit quality performance of five large South African based commercial banks. ©2010 The Author...

Description Conventional measures of banking sector The traditional indicators utilized for assessing the size, depth and development of a country's banking (financial) sector. page 1 Financial Sector Operations and Policy Financial Sector Development Indicators Comprehensive assessment through...

Description The banking system in India is significantly different from that of other Asian nations because of the country's unique geographic, social, and economic characteristics. India has a large population and land size, a diverse culture, and extreme disparities in income, which are marked...

Description A key problem managers face is how to allocate scarce resources among various activities or projects. Linear programming, or LP, is a method of allocating resources in an optimal way. Transportation Problem: A Special Case for Linear Programming Problems J. Reeb and S. Leavengood...

Description Operations Research (OR) methods in railway transportation deal with the whole spectrum from infrastructure related issues to passenger and freight transport. In this paper, we only focus on the models and techniques used in railway transportation by passenger operators. Operations...

Description There has been and still is controversy about the social impact of multinationals in the extractive industries, particularly when operating in developing countries. Whilst developing countries are increasingly seeing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as a means for development, serious...

Description The economic reforms in India started in early nineties, but their outcome is visible now. Major changes took place in the functioning of Banks in India only after liberalization, globalisation and privatisation. It has become very mandatory to study and to make a comparative...

Description Lean Manufacturing arose from the Toyota Production System. The variants of Lean Manufacturing, such as TQM, were originally founded in the Japanese automotive industry, buttheir evolution was mostly carried out in the West. The aim of this paper is to produce a comparative study...

Description National budgeting in the United States underwent dramatic changes during the last third of the twentieth century. As the costs of health care and social programs expanded and deficits grew, politicians tried to adopt long-term macrobudgetary strategies to control fiscal balances...

Description Sustainable procurement is investigated using a questionnaire that draws on established scales for ‘Purchasing Social Responsibility’(Carter & Jennings, 2004). The survey has been administered across the UK public sector, and 106 responses have been received from procurement...

Description Information and communications, which are indispensable infrastructures for development, possess great importance for the overall development of the country. The contribution of information and communications has played an important role for creating a healthy, civilized and cultured...

Description Unorganised or informal sector constitutes a pivotal part of the Indian economy. More than 90 per cent of workforce and about 50 per cent of the national product are accounted for by the informal economy. A high proportion of socially and economically underprivileged sections of...

Description Job satisfaction of employees can be considered as one of the important factors for improving the organizational performance. The hotels of Malaysia similar to the other countries attempt to increase employee job satisfaction. In this regard, (HRM) human resource management practices...