The majority of people in Sub-Saharan Africa does not have a basic bank account and are financially excluded from main stream financial services. This paper examines factors that drive geographic exclusion of banking services to rural communities and households' demand for a basic bank account...

The banking industry has grown tremendously in volume and complexity in the last few decades. A whole lot of improvements have been witnessed in the area relating to financial viability, profitability and competitiveness. Unfortunately, there are concerns or issues that banks have not been able...

Financial Inclusion plays a major role in the progress of every nation and for a country like India where Banks are the significant players in the field of socio-economic development, this industry should concentrate the most on financial inclusion to eradicate financial elimination. To Study...

This study explores the effect of spatial competition as well as other factors (i.e. bank-specific characteristics, industry-specific characteristics, and macroeconomics variables) on rural banks performance (profitability and efficiency) in Indonesia. A distance proxy (physical distance from a...

This paper examines the effect of competition on bank stability particularly the contagion effect in rural banking market using spatial panel econometrics methodology. We obtain quarterly data from 2014 to 2017 focusing in a single country, Indonesia, as it has the largest number of rural banks...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to find out whether the online banking customers have satisfied towards online banking services and its process. A comprehensive review of academic and professional literature indicates that online baking provides useful services and quick services to...

When major commercial Banks are now looking towards the emerging markets of rural India, Regional Rural Banks (RRBs), which were set-up specifically for the rural sector, have had a bitter experience on the very same market. Almost all RRBs of India suffered huge loss, plagued by low morale of...

We interview 379 European bank CEOs to identify their banks' main competitors. We then provide evidence on the drivers of bilateral bank competition, construct a novel competition measure at the locality level, and assess how well it explains variation in firms' credit constraints. We find that...

This paper examines the herd behavior of regional banks during financial fluctuations using loan data on Japanese banks from the 1980s to the 1990s. We use the herding measure developed by Lakonishok, Shleifer, and Vishny (1992) and Uchida and Nakagawa (2007) to detect evidence of herding and...

The European Commission's current initiative to commence consultations on the action plan to build a Capital Markets Union is to be welcomed. The objective must be to create a stable and sustainable financial system, providing all households and companies with appropriate access to financial...