Islamic banking is considered as alternative to conventional banking. It focuses on profit/loss and risk sharing, than interest based deposit/lending followed in conventional banking. Conventional Banking cherishes a long history while Islamic banking gained importance in last few decades. The study review and compare performance of conventional banks and Islamic banks operating in GCC region d...

Research on credit risk management systems in Indonesia commercial banks beyond moderating contingency variables such as competitive strategy, corporate culture, external environment and organizational structure has never been done. The research objectives are: (1) to analyze the influence of contingency variables (competitive strategy, corporate culture, external environment and organizational...

This paper evaluates the determinants of bank performance in China. In particular, we examine the effects of stock market volatility, competition and ownership on bank performance in China. The sample comprises a total of 11 banks (four state-owned and seven joint-stock commercial banks) listed in the Chinese Stock Exchanges. The period under consideration extends from 2003-2009. The Generalize...

Financial service firms, and banks in particular, are faced with a shift from traditional, interpersonal forms of service to online services. Digital technologies are more and more becoming today’s standard and challenge traditional business models in the banking sector. Building on the concept of Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO), this study of banks in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein ai...

This paper evaluates the determinants of bank performance in China. In particular, we examine the effects of stock market volatility, competition and ownership on bank performance in China. The sample comprises a total of 11 banks (four state-owned and seven joint-stock commercial banks) listed in the Chinese Stock Exchanges. The period under consideration extends from 2003-2009. The Generalize...

In this paper we use the trace driven simulation to study the performance of the main memory. We discuss the eeect of using interleaved memory with fast page mode or precharge mode to improve the memory performance. A method that combines both fast page mode and precharge mode is deened. This method proves to give the best memory performance for memory banks having low or high order address int...

The aim of this study was an investigation of the effect of corporate governance on banks’ performance evidence from Indian Banks. This study tested a hypothesis according to the three levels of a model with three groups including the overall, public, and private sectors. This hypothesis focused on the relationship between different variables of the three levels in the new model of bank perform...

Studies of the differences in operating performance of minorityand nonminorityowned commercial banks date back to the 1970s and early 1980s. The focal point of much of this research was to investigate the long-term viability of minority-owned institutions. Some studies investigated declining lending trends among minority institutions (Boorman and Kwast 1974 and Meinster and Elyasiani 1988), whi...

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the preand post-privatization operating performance and stock market performance of privatized banks and rival banks in middleand low-income countries. First, we find that privatization announcements elicit negative abnormal returns for rival banks and that the effects are more pronounced for subsequent tranche sale where the proportion of governm...

Though overall bank performance from July 2007 to December 2008 was the worst since at least the Great Depression, there is significant variation in the cross-section of stock returns of large banks across the world during that period. We use this variation to evaluate the importance of factors that have been discussed as having contributed to the poor performance of banks during the credit cri...