The overall aim of this paper is to explore the potential fintech in transforming Islamic banking industry Oman. banks Oman lack economies scale, limited nationwide outreach, low penetration rate due level public awareness. FinTech present a huge opportunity for sector be more competitive marketplace. Data and technology are converging, so, at end day, must deliver excellent financial services ...

This article discusses the financial perspective in a case study at ICTRA that deals with improving ICT service delivery. It outlines the threestep approach taken in the Finance Transformation Project and explains how this approach helped ICTRA in becoming a more business-oriented ICT shared service centre.

pads/t is a declarative data description language paired with an error-aware transformation language. This pairing provides rich support for programming with ad hoc data sources. Such data is common in a wide range of domains including networking, financial analysis, biology, and physics. pads/t’s data description language is based on polymorphic, recursive, and dependent data types. From such ...

In this paper, we propose a solution based upon Umple for data transformation of Financial Information eXchange protocol (FIXML). The proposed solution includes syntactic and semantic analysis and automatic code generation. We discuss our solution based on development effort, modularity, complexity, accuracy, fault tolerance, and execution time factors. We have applied our technique to a set of...

In late 1988, the Indonesian government adopted a number of reforms aimed at deregulating the country's banking sector.' Since the reforms, Indonesia's banking system has been undergoing a transformation from an inefficient system dominated by a relatively small number of state-owned banks, to a more volatile system, in which competition among state and privately owned banks is encouraged.' Thi...

We discuss the class of “Quadratic Normal Volatility” (QNV) models, which have drawn much attention in the financial industry due to their analytic tractability and flexibility. We characterize these models as those that can be obtained from stopped Brownian motion by a simple transformation and a change of measure that depends only on the terminal value of the stopped Brownian motion. This exp...

Most primary care residency training practices have close financial and administrative relationships with teaching hospitals and health systems. Many residency practices have begun integrating the core principles of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) into clinical workflows and educational experiences. Little is known about how the relationships with hospitals and health systems affect th...