The subject of bank planning has received considerable attention in recent years. However, little relative attention has been devoted to strategic planning for new banks. This study reduces this void by providing some guidelines and thoughts pertaining to development of strategic plans for newly...

Zunehmende Diskontinuitäten und fortschreitende Marktsättigung sowie das Auftreten neuer Wettbewerber stellen den Bankbereich vor die Notwendigkeit, sein Geschäft strategisch auszurichten. Die vorliegende Arbeit hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, ein Konzept zur strategischen Marketingplanung in...

Purpose: The time-cost trade-off problem addressed by CPM-based analytical approaches, assume unlimited resources and the existence of a continuous time-cost function. However, given the discrete nature of most resources, the activities can often be crashed only stepwise. Activity crashing for...

We develop an analysis of ex ante monitoring of risky projects in banking. If protected from competition, banks are more concerned about not catching good risk projects when the perceived state of the economy improves, while they are more concerned about being induced to finance bad risk...

This paper has highlighted the lending risk analysis procedures of Banks. Banks and other financial institutions play a vital role in fostering the economic and social condition of a country. They help to develop a conducive climate for capital formation and constitute the core of the country's...

Dutch Auction Rate Preferred Stock (DARPS) was created in the 1980s as a way for fully taxable corporate investors and tax-exempt issuers to share the tax benefits of the dividends received deduction. DARPS dividend yields were reset every few weeks through an auction, minimizing price risk and...

We investigate the application of agile methodology to regulatory compliance projects. Regulatory compliance projects normally apply waterfall approach given the regulatory explicit specified requirements. We identify the major advantages and disadvantages. The findings have implications for...