economic growth and an increasing Muslim community, mostly of Turkish origin, which saw the opening of its first Islamic Bank … Germany. As Islamic bank customers choose Sharia compliant products voluntarily out of respect for their faith, we will focus … Islamic Law.The main part of this article will contain a case study on the KT Bank. We will discuss the current situation of …

period 1998-2005 and discusses the results from the perspective of corporate bank strategy. Methodologically the existing … concentration of the national financial sector have a considerable impact on a bank's financial performance. Both issues proved to …

bank size. I combine this data set with information from almost 850,000 companies in these countries. My results show that …

comparatively cheap deposits of bank's liabilities but among other factors especially by the size of the bank. In our empirical … finding of a strong influence of bank size on funding costs is also in an in international context of great interest as … mergers among small local banks - the key driver of bank growth - are a recent phenomenon not only in European banking that is …

In this paper, we investigate how bank mergers affect bank revenues and present empirical evidence that mergers among … gains. -- Mergers and acquisitions ; post-merger performance ; bank mergers …