In the present paper, an attempt has been made to analyze the trends and growth in the retail portfolio of various bank groups. The variations have been calculated for the year 2008 over 2007. The study finds that among the retail loans, housing loans and auto loans occupy prominent places. On...

Private banking is one of the few areas in which banks and other personal financial services players continue to invest heavily. But over the last year or so there have been dramatic changes in the market. Going forward, players of all types therefore need to adapt their strategies to the new...

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction to the Encyclopedia of International Strategic Management -- 1. Adaptation-aggregation-arbitrage (AAA) typology -- 2. Added distance -- 3. Agglomeration -- 4. Asset recombination -- 5. Base of the pyramid -- 6. Born global...