The financial industry can nowadays be viewed as a battlefield where the players are keenly planning new ways to achieve competitive advantage. Besides increasing competition and change, the current trend in private banking has been the consumer movement from traditional branch banking to stand-alone, online banking. This paper examines the uptake of online banking by the use of a survey (1167 ...

M any Middle-East countries, like Iran, have dynamic banking industries and have observed merger and acquisitions (M&A) waves. M&A waves are usually defined in the developed world context and some of their main drivers were identified as: market timing, environment's shocks, merger manias, government regulation and regulatory, and technological changes. It has been discussed that merger waves ...

This article aims to provide the state of the art of Intranet in Italian banking industry and its evolution since 2004. The research involves a panel of banks (which covers the 80% of the Italian banking industry in terms of employees) and is based on both longitudinal case studies and survey. Two evolution era have been identified and frameworks reported. Findings reveal that, although followi...

The banking industry is subject to a wave of consolidation taking the form of mergers but also the formation of strategic partnerships. In this chapter, we present how such a partnership can be assessed using the e3value ontology. This ontology allows us to model networks of enterprises and partnerships, exchanging things of economic with each other. To adequately model strategic partnerships, ...

In this paper, the relationship between labor-market segmentation and the gender wage gap is analyzed with data from the 1998 Swiss Wage Structure Survey. It is shown that in three selected industries (health-care industry, catering industry, banking and insurance industry) the unexplained and potentially discriminatory gender wage differential is substantially larger in the primary than in the...

This paper analyzes the influence of the East Asian crisis and the subsequent reforms on the oligopolistic nature of the Thai banking industry. Since the crisis, there have been substantial changes in competitive environment, including a decline in the family ownership of banks as well as the arrival of new entrants. How did these changes affect a banking industry in which the six largest local...

This paper takes an explorative search into merger activity in the Nigerian banking industry and its impact in the sustenance of shareholder value via sound corporate governance structure. An attempt is made to draw lessons from United States experience in merger activity in the Nigerian banking industry which has as at the time of study recorded twenty -five (25) successful mergers arising fro...

The health industry has acquired a reputation as lagging in the use of IT. This reputation is usually based upon the relatively narrow measure of comparative IT expenditure, often examined as a proportion of total revenue. This study has been undertaken to assess health's use of IT using a broader frame of reference. The health industry was compared to the banking industry, on the basis that th...

The paper describes the current state of Internet banking in India and discusses its implications for the Indian banking industry. Particularly, it seeks to examine the impact of Internet banking on banks’ performance and risk. Using information drawn from the survey of 85 scheduled commercial bank’s websites, during the period of June 2007, the results show that nearly 57 percent of the Indian...

This paper provides an overview of big data technologies and best practices from the standpoint of business intelligence (BI) applications in the banking industry. The authors discussed current challenges in banking industry that could be addressed by using big data technologies. Based on their research, they provided a list of big data tools and technologies in terms of an ecosystem that are s...