Recent advances in communication technology are changing the way that traditional banking is done. Technology has added a new dimension to the competitive pressures that are already reshaping the banking industry. The resulting changes will have a great impact firstly on the reconfiguration of a bank branches network according to the dictates of the market, secondly on the design of new product...

This study uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess the progress/regression of decision-making units (DMUs) having a two-stage structure‎. ‎The progress/regression of these DMU can be assessed in the first stage‎, ‎the second stage‎, ‎and the whole system‎. ‎In the first stage‎, ‎the progress/regression of bank branches in collecting resources and in the second stage their progress/re...

The bank-branch restructuring problem seeks to locate bank-branches by maintaining, closing, or opening branches, to provide the service required by clients, at minimum total cost. This nonlinear problem, due to the existence of economies of scale, is formulated as a mixed binary, integer linear model. The model obtained can be solved by a ready-available software. However, due to the problem c...

The Algerian banking industry is clearly dominated by the six state-owned banks (SOBs) which represent more than 85% of total asset. While it widely admitted that public ownership in developing countries often correlated with inefficiency and waste resources, performance management SOBs branches mostly operated using basic accounting ratios. data envelopment analysis (DEA) a sophisticated appro...

this paper studies the technical efficiency of 12 branches of saman bank over the period 1387-88, relating it to the composition of staff by sex, the ratio of fixed assets to total assets, the age of the branches and the geographic ranking in development indicators of the city where the branch is located in. data envelopment analysis is used to determine the efficiency of branches. the average ...

The authors investigated the relationship between transformational leadership behavior and group performance in 218 financial services teams that were branches of a bank in Hong Kong and the United States. Transformational leadership influenced team performance through the mediating effect of team potency. The effect of transformational leadership on team potency was moderated by team power dis...

The 1994 Reigle-Neal Act gave multistate bank holding companies the option to convert to an interstate branch bank structure by authorizing the merger of bank subsidiaries across state lines. Over the following five year period, an increasing number of banking companies, including a number of very large ones, have done so. As a result, large companies operating through interstate branches have ...

This study examines all bank robberies, completed and attempted, reported to the U.K.'s Metropolitan Police in the years 19921994. It shows the rate of repetition against the same branches to be high, with each robbed branch suffering an average of 1.54 robberies, and the most robbed branch suffering six. Repeat robberies follow the success of earlier robberies, with the probability of repetiti...