This paper describes an empirical study of investigating recent trend and development of the application of e-banking (banking though internet) in rural areas and its economic impact on local financial institutions. The data used in this research are collected through a web-based questionnaire...

This paper introduces the development aspects of an intelligent agent for mutual fund investment decisions. The success of next-generation Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems mainly depends on making intelligent systems more useful for automated planning and strategic-level decisions,...

Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) refers to investment practices that take into account financial, social and environmental aspects. The objective of this paper is to identify the factors which may influence fund management companies in making a decision to manage and/or market SRI funds and...

The concept of trust is becoming an increasingly important factor in electronic payment (e-payment). This research investigates the rising role of collaborative coupons as new transaction media. We construct a framework for a trust-based e-payment scheme to explain the behaviour of trust within...

Reliable stock market movement prediction is a challenging task. The difficulty is mainly due to the close to random-walk behaviour of a stock time series. A number of published techniques have emerged in the trading community for prediction tasks. One of them is neural network, NN. In this...

The internet is a powerful communication device. It is no surprise then that companies are moving towards using the internet as a communication device for the distribution of financial information. Thus, making the internet a new voluntary disclosure medium. This paper explores this new...

Online finances are transforming from ventures into a more stable age. However, people still doubt whether they would be benefited more from the virtual world than that of in the real world. This paper aims to better understanding of how personality traits affect the acceptance of e-finance by...

Internet banking as a key component of e-finance has gained research attention. However, the research on developing countries is lacking. This paper investigates the factors that influence the consumer adoption of internet banking in Nigeria. The results show that the currently relevant factors...

E-banking is the delivery of banking services through electronic communication. It uses technological methods to provide financial services to consumers. During the course of the paper, the authors seek to explore the legal framework which governs e-banking in India. The present paper has been...

This paper seeks to examine the impact of internet banking on banks' performance and also whether, among banks offering internet banking, those that have offered it for a relatively long time outperformed those that only recently began to offer it. Using the data on financial performance of 82...