Mobile technology offers an unprecedented growth opportunity for banking industry in Tanzania. As the economy continues to prosper, increasingly affluent consumers and underbanked segments create demand for new financial products and services. Many consumers in Tanzania have mobile phones, but not bank accounts. Therefore, the mobile channel presents an effective way to connect them to the nati...

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...

With liberalization and internalization in the financial market and progress in information technology, banks face dual competitive pressures to provide service quality and administrative efficiency. That these recent developments are fueled by technology might misleadingly suggest that the adoption of mobile banking is largely based on technological criteria. The purpose of this study is to es...

Commercial banks are subject to regulation that restricts their investments. When banks are concerned for their reputation, however, they could self-regulate and invest more efficiently. Hence, a shadow banking that arises to avoid regulation has the potential to improve welfare. Still, reputation concerns depend on future economic prospects and may suddenly disappear, generating a collapse of ...

Today, wireless sensor networks has become a key technology for different types of “smart environments”, and an intense research effort is currently ongoing to enable the application of wireless sensor networks for a wide range of industrial problems. Localization is important when there is an uncertainty of the exact location of some fixed or mobile devices. This paper provides different techn...

Cross-border banking has been important across Africa for a long time, with regional banks taking on a more prominent role only recently. This paper provides an overview over the literature of cross-border banking and financial deepening and inclusion, with a focus on Africa. It also offers suggestive evidence that it is critical to differentiate between different types of cross-border banks wh...

Previous attempts to analyze the effect of liability dollarization on “fear of floating” have focused exclusively on the role played by foreign liabilities. Liability dollarization of the domestic banking system, however, poses a similar risk as dollar-denominated deposits and credit impose a source of currency risk on domestic banks and firms respectively. Findings from a large cross-country s...