FDIC Chairman Sheila C. Bair has expressed a desire to determine how safe and affordable small-dollar lending can be expanded and become more of a staple product for all banks.2 Pilot banks have demonstrated that the Safe, Affordable, and Feasible Small-Dollar Loan Template is relatively simple to implement and requires no particular technology or other major infrastructure investment. Moreover...

It is an honor to come to the land of the world’s major banks to talk with you about international finance. At last count, four of the five largest banks in the world, and 15 of the largest 30 were based in your country. Japan and its international banking relationships are key players in a system where every major international bank can influence, or perhaps even threaten, the entire world of ...

Non-performing assets (NPAs) have been a major cause of concern for Indian commercial banks in the recent past years. Many studies have been reported on the different aspects of NPAs in Indian banking system. However, there is a crucial lack of investigation on the comparative assessment of various types of banks such as Public sector banks, Private sector banks and foreign banks so that the tr...

This paper explores some of the issues that arise in the regulation of Islamic capital market products and services. As many of the products are distributed to retail clients by Islamic banks and through the Islamic windows of conventional banks, it is also pertinent to deal with the regulation of these institutions, not least because of the distinctive liability and asset structures of Islamic...

As economic entities become increasingly interconnected, a shock in a financial network can provoke significant cascading failures throughout the system. To study the systemic risk of financial systems, we create a bi-partite banking network model composed of banks and bank assets and propose a cascading failure model to describe the risk propagation process during crises. We empirically test t...

Corporate social responsibility usually refers as CSR, is an initiative to create a link between society and the businesses in civilization. In Bangladesh CSR still has not become widespread. The commercial banking industry started practicing CSR. Appropriate use of can play very important role imperishable growth country by upsetting every feature economical activities. This article will analy...

Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine the impact strategy empowering human resources in achieving strategic goals commercial banks Jordan. Theoretical Framework: Jordan are characterized by their diversity, there three categories banks: public sector, private and foreign banks.it makes it constant competition, which requires achieve they seek. Design/Methodology/Approach: collected (356)...

The East Asian ®nancial crisis had a major impact on the regional operations of banks, and in particular investment banks. As the ®nancial crisis deepened during 1997 and 1998, numerous European and North American banks began to restructure their organizational capabilities in capital markets, foreign exchange, securities, and project ®nance, as they became exposed to bad debts and reductions i...