Purpose – To ascertain customers' usage level and perceptions of the image of rural community banks (RCBs) in Ghana …. This research examines whether women and men differ in their levels of satisfaction and expectation about the banks … significant differences between both genders in their perceptions and expectation of the banks services. Research limitations …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether any deviations in South Asian banks' interest margins can … and random effect estimates are reported. The sample consists of 120 South Asian banks with a total of 1,226 bank … attributed to MC. Instead, only dominant South Asian banks with larger MSs are found to extract higher interest margins. Research …

commercial banks operating from 2000 to 2009. Three proxies to measure bank performance were used while market concentration and …; the concentration ratio of the four largest banks (CR 4 ) and Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, while market share was used as a … traditional SCP hypothesis. Thus, the results support the view that efficient banks maximize profitability. Practical implications …

having a profound impact on the design of retail banks' delivery systems. The results of an empirical study based on a … probability sample survey of 117 US retail banks, in which the channels of delivery for typical banking products are investigated …

acquired one of the largest Brazilian banks and, later, the Brazilian subsidiary of an Italian bank. The paper seeks to … understand to what extent the successful integration of the acquired banks by the acquiring one was determined by the consistency …

Pacific region for the past 20 years. In 1987, a study was approved of the bank′s staffing requirement in the 1990s. A model …

of corporate governance. Design/methodology/approach – Using a sample of stock repurchase announcements by banks after … banks tends to be driven by bank size and therefore may have less of an impact on reducing agency problems within the … stock repurchases in publicly‐traded banks.  …

banks in Egypt. Two types of neural nets are used, and correspondingly two types of conventional techniques are applied. The … to Egyptian public sector banks, for at present only judgemental techniques are being applied in credit evaluation …

traditional margin income and fee‐based income for banks operating in Australia. Design/methodology/approach – Considering several … Australian banks. The results suggest that shareholders of banks will benefit from increased bank exposure to non‐interest income … must be offered with respect to banks pursuing absolute returns rather than monitoring risk‐return trade‐offs, and so …