Is Greece a reforming economy? The purpose of this paper is to present the evolution and structure of the banking sector in Greece, with reference to the parallel experiences of the Eastern European (EE) countries. In Section 2, we are concerned with the domestic economic environment within which the Greek Banking System (GBS) operates. and the pressures building up within the system encouragin...

Following entry into the European Community in 1986, Portugal transformed rapidly its repressed banking system with deregulation, the opening of borders, the granting of new banking licenses, and privatization. In a more competitive banking system, one would expect a priori an increase in operational efficiency. This paper attempts to quantify the magnitude of efficiency gains over the years 19...

User Interface is an important component of every computing system. This is particularly true in Internet Banking, where the users are customers, who access the banking services online, from different locations of the world. These customers when dissatisfied with the banking services could take drastic actions, such as spreading service failure related rumours, withdrawal of patronage, and so o...

A growing phenomenon in the Internet is the rising exploitation of sophisticated security means (e.g. cryptography, digital signatures etc.) toward the development of novel commerce services for providing electronic transactions, collaborating with business partners or serving customers, regardless of geographical and time limitations. This paper discusses, presents and elaborates on the variou...

This paper investigates the reasons customers use Internet banking (I-Banking) and whether the use differs across various customer demographics. The relationship between trust & loyalty and customer demographics was also analyzed. The results showed that customers of differing genders perceived different factors as important. “Checking account balance” and “Checking bank statements” were identi...

ran's economy still has a two-digit inflation rate with high fluctuations, which is mainly caused by fiscal dominance. According to the relevant literature, the most important fiscal dominance mechanism is borrowing from the central bank. After prohibiting direct borrowing from the Central Bank by Iran's government, the budget deficits are partially addressed by off-budgeting operations, achiev...

In the early 1990s, Sweden faced a banking and exchange rate crisis that led it to rescue banks that had experienced large losses on their balance sheets and that threatened a collapse of the banking system. Some analysts and others argue that Sweden’s experience could provide useful lessons for the execution and implementation of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. The banking cr...