Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1. About ‘Strategy for Existing Geography and Business’ -- Chapter 2. Business Model -- Chapter 3. Strategy Blueprint -- Chapter 4. Financial Plan -- Part 2. About ‘Strategy for New Geographies and/or Businesses’ and ‘Strategy & Execution’ -- Chapter...

Proposes a checklist of the considerations to be taken into account in a UK financial services company going transnational (crossing borders) which includes: identifying markets, market structures and opportunities, customer segmentation, competitive advantage, distribution channels, financial...

Purpose – Banks have worked hard to improve their bottom‐line performance by focusing relentlessly on cutting costs. The effort made banks leaner, but essential as those efficiency gains have been, they did little to reduce costly customer defections. This article demonstrates that banks'...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed light on performance evaluation of small firms' financing schemes with a view to assessing their potential for improving small firms' access to finance. Design/methodology/approach – An integrated methodology based on five commonly used...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to describe the award‐winning training that Winterthur Life provided for its business‐development managers and outline the performance improvements that the training has brought about. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on information...

E‐commerce has been much hyped as a potentially transformational force in many industries, and financial services is an industry where its impact is expected to be particularly strong. In this qualitative research four case studies have been developed, from a series of in‐depth interviews,...

1 Introduction -- 2 Economical and Historical Context -- 3 New Technological Developments and Opportunities -- 4 Toolkit for Getting Started -- 5 Make use of Decentralized Finance -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- A Blockchain Applications -- B Token Classification Example – Bitcoin -- Index --...