Today in the economy of any country banks play a vital role. One cannot think of the development of any nation without active assistance rendered by the banking and financial institutions. Banking is a service industry and the bankers are expected to give top priority to provide satisfactory...

This paper adopts a business management perspective of studies to examine the role of the credit information market in the bank lending industry. This paper analyzes the credit information market as a particular case of vertical disintegration in the bank credit origination value chain. The main...

The interest rate risk is the degree of exposure of a bank's financial condition to adverse movements in interest rates. Changes in interest rates affect a bank's earnings by changing its net interest income and the level of other interest-sensitive income and operating expenses. Changes in...

The paper examines the diffusion of information technology in the economics of Italian banks. The wide spread of information and communication technology is improving banking and financial services delivery to customers. Particularly, the paper adopts a knowledge management perspective to...

Interest rate risk is the exposure of a bank's financial condition to adverse movements in interest rates. Changes in interest rates affect a bank's earnings by changing its net interest income and also affect the underlying value of the bank's assets, liabilities and off-balance sheet...

This paper aims to investigate the drivers of the emerging loan broker market in the lending business value chain. Transaction cost economics, the dominant paradigm for understanding make or buy decisions, represents the starting point of my research. Capabilities based view of banking firms and...

The paper aims to investigate the role of capital adequacy in the economics of banking firms. The first section reviews the literature. The second section evaluates the different drivers of the bank capital regulation

This paper aims to analyze the derivatives disclosure in banks' annual risk reports. In this paper, the author uses content analysis to examine the qualitative and quantitative profiles of the derivatives disclosure at a cross-country level, with particular reference to credit derivatives. The...

The study is designed to understand and investigate the practical situation and concept of the Environmental Accounting and Reporting (EAR) of twelve Bangladeshi banking companies for the year 2010 to 2014 by annual report. The reports pointed that most of the banks of the study are making...