Compliance is key to the operation and reputation of the financial services sector and is now completely embedded in the way financial services organisations carry on investment business. It is also fundamental to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in seeking to achieve its regulatory...

Purpose – Compliance competence is key to the operation and reputation of the financial services sector and is now completely embedded in the way financial services organisations carry on investment business. It is also fundamental to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in seeking to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare and evaluate the internet banking services of Turkey and the UK. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on an exploratory research for a sample of nine banks from each country, a web survey is conducted to collect data for each...

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. LITERATURE REVIEW -- A. Competition and Concentration -- B. Concentration and Stability -- C. Competition and Stability -- D. Regulation, Supervision and Stability -- III. METHODOLOGY -- A. Duration Analysis -- B. Logistic Probability Analysis -- C....

This paper provides the first empirical analysis of the cross-country relationship between a direct measure of competitive conduct of financial institutions and banking system fragility. Using the Panzar and Rosse H-Statistic as a measure for competition in 38 countries during 1980-2003, we...