As we are in the midst of the one of the longest recessions in US history, more than ever, companies are doing what they must to barely survive through its end. By virtue of their industries, products (both face-to-face and web-embedded) or policies, mergers and acquisitions strategies, a number...

Due to immense amounts of data being generated from financial markets in many different formats, professionals and academics face interoperability problems when analysing such data. This paper proposes a data model that gives a coherent view of the information available from financial market...

This paper aims to identify the impact of demographics on consumer buying behaviour towards online purchase of different products based on the involvement and investment (High, Medium and Low). It attempts to unearth the impact of the demographics on online purchase which is at present...

This study investigates the cross sectional determinants of online disclosure practices of companies listed in the Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE). Regression analysis is employed to explore the potential dependence of online corporate disclosure practices on size, profitability, leverage and the...

This paper compares two distributed computing environments when used to price financial contingent claims with Monte Carlo methods: a PC grid and a scientific computing Linux cluster. The paper also investigates the performances for different distributing strategies. On the basis of our...

Data security and privacy are important issues in the success of a financial business operation. Implementing and applying policies related to data security and privacy, therefore, has become one of the core and important activities for large organisations. The data classification process can be...

In the insurance business, two things are considered when analysing losses: frequency of loss and severity of loss. Previous research investigated the use of artificial Neural Networks (NNs) to develop models as aids to the insurance underwriter when determining acceptability and price on...

This paper focuses on the role of entrepreneurship and e-finance in determining a person's intention to adopt mobile banking. The approach utilised in this paper is to develop a conceptual framework that includes a number of propositions that are developed and justified by the literature. The...

The paper aims to build an empirically proven model of variables that influence consumer purchase intentions in a growing competitive marketing environment. The research identified that the entire marketing mix variables viz. product attributes, price attributes, promotion attributes and...

This study investigates the determinants which attract the customers to adopt internet banking in Pakistan by employing internal and external customers, on the sample size of 210 for internal and 151 for external respondents through using the survey research instrument questionnaire. The...