The increased need/wish for mobility amongst various sections of the society, particularlyamongst professionally active groups, is confronting credit institutions (banks) and otherenterprises offering financial services, with challenges to adjust their service portfolio in away to best suit the...

Mobile Commerce is gaining increasing acceptance amongst various sections of the society. Thisgrowth can be partly traced back to technological and demographical developments that have beeninfluencing important aspects of the socio-cultural behaviour in today’s world. The need/wish formobility...

Zu Beginn des dritten Jahrtausends befindet sich der Markt für Finanzdienstleistungen in einer Situationdes radikalen Umbruchs. Ermöglicht durch die dynamischen Entwicklungen im IT-Bereichwurde der Wettbewerb durch innovative Neueintreter verschärft. Als Reaktion auf Deregulierungund sinkende...

Globalization of financial markets resultingfrom both IT (particularly internet standards) andincreasing homogeneity of regulation has stronglyaffected the environment, financial services companiesare operating in. Given these changes on the market,innovation is not a choice, but a necessity to...

Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services ataffordable cost to the poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes toinclude maximum number of people under formal financial systems. The most important partof financial services...

Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal financial systems. The most important part of financial...

This paper distills some policy lessons from the financial services integration program in the European Union for East Asia. Focusing on the improved cross-border facilitation of financial flows rather than on general macroeconomic factors related to optimal currency area formation, the paper...

Ohne Geburtsurkunde kein Personalausweis, ohne Ausweis kein Zugang zu Finanzdienstleistungen - dieser Zusammenhang mag in Industrieländern als trivial erscheinen. Die gleichberechtigte Teilhabe am ökonomischen Leben scheitert hier nicht an fehlenden Ausweisdokumenten. In vielen...