One of the most important applications of data envelopment analysis tech-nique is measuring the efficiency of bank branches. Performance measure-ment in the banking industry is important for several groups, including bank managers, customers, investors, and shareholders. The purpose of this study is to examine and design a mixed structure to measure the efficiency of branches of Iranian banks a...

Until this year, Citigroup was the only $1 trillion banking organization in the U.S. Now, there are two more—Bank of America has merged with FleetBoston, and J.P. Morgan Chase is about to complete its merger with Bank One.These megamergers are notable not only for their size but also for the geographic scope that the new institutions will serve. Indeed, they may signal the beginning of a proces...

The pervasive implementation of Information Technologies paved the way to significant transformations in the retail banking sector, including organizational changes as well as a broader product range. The central theme that is discussed in this paper is the degree to which the unfolding of a technological trajectory provided incentives to agents for the creation of absorptive capacity and the s...

The paper provides a survey research report on the information security and communication management disciplines within the scope of Web Banking. The benefits and uses of information and communication approaches were examined to determine their influence on the effective management of web banking security risks. Information and communication approaches have not changed the structure of security...

This paper examines what we can learn from existing studies, or could learn from existing data, about the implications of banking consolidation for the financing of economic activity in rural areas. The evidence indicates that large organizations will expand their offices in rural areas. The role of relatively small banks headquartered in rural areas as providers of banking services in their co...

Development of e-banking has empirically modified the structure and characters of banks’ performance, efficiency, risk and challenges which have also been articulately recognized based on the international best practices. E-banking brazenly accelerates and restructures financial transactions via enhancing technology and expanding the banking services in comparison with conventional banking. Acc...

In this paper we empirically examine the effect of various banking policies on financial sector development. To this end, an econometric model in the context of Co-integrated VAR is employed. The results show that financial liberalization and reforms have a significant and positive effect on the banking sector development while inflation rate has a negative effect. Furthermore, the high GDP...

Objectives The recent shift, from merely traditional approach providing only financial services to the new trend implying banks can be considered as business partners meeting their whole financial needs and creating a win-win relationship, in customers’ opinion towards banks has made banks try to apply banking marketing strategies to help attract more customers and respond to their needs. Hence...

one of the necessary preconditions to the establishment and stability of optimal currency area is the homogeneity of the economic structure in member states. but place with eurozone currency crisis, the question arises whether the economic structure of the eurozone countries were homogeneous? accordingly, this study by using an econometrics model and estimating it by panel data method, has been...