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To keep up with a large degree of instruction level parallelism (ILP), the Itanium 2 cache systems use a complex organization scheme: load/store queues, banking and interleaving. In this paper, we study the impact of these cache systems on memory instructions scheduling. We demonstrate that, if no care is taken at compile time, the non-precise memory disambiguation mechanism and the banking str...

This study contributes to the on–going worldwide debate on the future form of banking systems by examining the performance of a socialist ASEAN system—Vietnam—with four other ASEAN but capitalist and transition economies—Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia and China. The study finds that over the 1996–2009 period, the Vietnamese banking system may have performed better than the comparator countrie...

there is no accurate data for the bank cards fraud in iran. but, it seems to be a growing trend in this regard and in the near future it is going to become one of the critical problems in iran's banking system. unfortunately, not enough research works have been done in this field in our country and the banking system requires models that are efficient enough to ensure safe use of bank card...

China’s rapid economic growth over the past three decades has positioned it as one of the major economic powers in the world today. Its real gross domestic product (GDP) has grown at an average rate of 9.9% over this period, which is almost three times the world average. As of mid-2010, China had surpassed Japan to become the second largest economy in the world, behind only the United States. T...

This paper discusses the mediumto long-term perspectives for the Irish banking system. Consistent with the finance-growth literature, financial deepening had a limited impact on growth in Ireland before the crisis and cannot be expected to contribute significantly over the shortto medium-term. The paper documents that, compared to its benchmark, the Irish banking system is still very unbalanced...

JEL Classification: G20, G 21, G28. With the start of deregulation in early 1990s in various parts of the world along with other types of changes in the banking rules and regulations (i.e. relaxing of Glass-Steagall Act 1933 in USA, Financial System Reform Act 1993 in Japan etc.) during the same period, most banks in Europe, USA and Japan as well as in developing world have tried to pursue the ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors influencing satisfaction with cell phone banking in South Africa. The study followed a qualitative approach in which in-depth interviews were conducted with a set of South African cell phone banking users. Thematic analysis was employed to analyse the data. It was confirmed that factors known to influence satisfaction with other electroni...

Under the difficult access to finance of SMEs, they expect that its relationship with the banks shall constitute a real help to access appropriate financing, at reasonable costs and requirements, given the possibility of mutually beneficial and long lasting relation. The literature, but also the research we have carried on, is centered on such determinants as concentration and the length of the...