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...

Using data from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for the period 1995 through 2005, this study found that e filing practices are advancing gradually but steadily. Since the new millennium, online e-filing has been the fastest growing category. On the other hand, telefile is shown to be...

The purpose of this study is to explore the inhibitory factors that affect the implementation of Internet Banks (IBs) in Taiwan and provide suggestions for the banks that fail to implement internet banks. This study compiles the factors according to Rogers' Innovation Diffusion theory 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...

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,...

Worldwide there have been many instances where access to the personal and financial information of private individuals was gained by unauthorised personnel. To protect such information, in Australia, national privacy principles, which are embodied in legislation, specify how private-sector...

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...