The new Basel Capital Adequacy Accord (Basel III) is an agreement among countries' central banks and bank supervisory authorities on the amount of capital banks must hold as a cushion against losses and insolvency. Basel III is of concern to Congress mainly because it could put U.S. financial...

In the increasingly competitive world of retail banking, organizations are focusing their attention on customer service as a means of increasing customer loyalty and retention. With this goal of increasing customer retention, the link between the attitudes of the service provider (employee...

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Over the last twenty years UK banks have reviewed and streamlined traditional credit assessment techniques for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises. In pursuit of margin and market share, today’s due diligence relies increasingly on centralised data and statistical “certainty” than on the...

During Peter Drucker’s talk entitled "Business and Management: The Changing Corporation" he discusses: joint alliances and market agreements, parent companies and their subsidiaries, changing technology and markets, seniority and Japanese companies, mutual funds and pensions, mortgages,...

Das Institut für Weltwirtschaft an der Universität Kiel (IfW) ist eines der großen Zentren weltwirtschaftlicher Forschung, wirtschaftspolitischer Beratung, ökonomischer Ausbildung und wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Dokumentation. Das Institut sieht seine Hauptaufgabe in der Erforschung...

Sowohl Ernteversicherungen als auch „Wetterderivate“ sind neuartigeRisikomanagementinstrumente, die eine Absicherung gegen Schäden aus nichtkatastrophalenWetterereignissen ermöglichen, in Deutschland aber bisher nicht verbreitet sind. Imvorliegenden Beitrag wird mit Hilfe eines...