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...

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...

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...

The aim of this paper is to examine the tensions that face the UK banking sector in assessing and managing credit risks associated with actual or potential environmental damage arising from the activities of borrowers. It was found that banks were more concerned with the reputational effects...

The Handbook of International Banking provides a clearly accessible source of reference material, covering the main developments that reveal how the internationalization and globalization of banking have developed over recent decades to the present, and analyses the creation of a new global...

The Handbook of International Banking provides a clearly accessible source of reference material, covering the main developments that reveal how the internationalization and globalization of banking have developed over recent decades to the present, and analyses the creation of a new global...