The banking industry has grown tremendously in volume and complexity in the last few decades. A whole lot of improvements have been witnessed in the area relating to financial viability, profitability and competitiveness. Unfortunately, there are concerns or issues that banks have not been able...

The paper examined the mediating role of social networks in the relationship between financial intermediation and financial inclusion of poor households in rural Uganda. The paper used SPSS (statistical package for social scientist) and applied MedGraph program (Excel version 13), Sobel test,...

Due to the traditional operational model of cooperative banks which is mostly based on financial intermediation, the range of a local bank’s social influence in a given environment is highly dependent on the money transfer balance, that is using local money to satisfy local needs. A typical...