One of the main problems of SMEs is how to finance their investments. The role of banks in this regard is crucial, since they can be a type of sources of financing through lending credits directly to SMEs. The key role of the paper thus relies on analyzing the effect of SMEs financing by the Iranian banking system.   The objective of this paper is to determine the influence of loans demanded...

Over the past two decades, Germany experienced several periods of banking system instability rather than full-blown banking system crises. In this paper we introduce a continuous and forward-looking stability indicator for the banking system based on information on all financial institutions in Germany between 1995 and 2010. Explaining this measure by means of panel regression techniques, we id...

The banks are motivated to leverage their m-banking activities with the advancement of mobile technologies and the high mobile penetration rate. Despite the availability of the mbanking services, many consumers still posses the attitude of ‘wait-and-see’ which resulted to unsatisfactory adoption rate. Hence, this paper aims to extend the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT...

although the word of “money laundering” isn’t very old in world literature, but attempted money laundering has a long history a long side with trade and commerce, as it always has been told. money laundering is a process that the incomes of criminal acts enter to the economic cycle and will purify dirty income. therefore, we can say launderers are actually committed two offenses, primaril...

Paper analyzes optimization scopes of electronic systems involved in retail banking and presents an approach to cash management and support system for automatic teller machine (ATM) network. This approach is based on an agent oriented technologies. According researches we described most suitable system architecture for ATM cash management and support system. Different software platforms and age...

This paper attempts to assess the Europe-wide systemic risk potential in banking. We employ a bivariate GARCH model to estimate conditional correlations between European bank stock indices. These correlations are used as an indication for the interdependencies amongst the banking business and hence for the systemic risk potential. We employ several tests to assess the development of the systemi...

Mobile phone has become an integral part of our lives. The penetration rate of mobile phones in the developing countries has increased abruptly and this is a good sign for the banking sector. Mobile banking is the most recently launched innovative feat in the banking sector. The unique ability of mobile banking to perform banking transactions irrespective of place and time has given a competiti...

According to the strategy of the banking system development until 2015, the Central Bank of Russia is going to implement Basel II Internal-Ratings-Based (IRB) approaches in 2015, while Basel III is planned to be introduced in full starting from 2019. Taking into account the effects of the Basel II regulation during the crisis 2008–2009, in particular, the excessive procyclicality of the capital...