solvency position of banks. While gross NPA reflects the quality of loans made by banks‚ net NPA shows the actual burden of banks. Any loan on which interest or principle installment is not paid for more than 90 days would be reckoned as NPA. NPAs affect the economy both at the macro level and micro level. At the macro level‚ alarming degrees of NPAs have a detrimental effect on the macro economy. A high level of NPAs or loss could cause significant banking crisis or banking distress. This causes
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IT COUNTRY STUDIED: NIGERIA INTRODUCTION Nigeria‚ officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria‚ is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory‚ Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west‚ Chad and Cameroon in the east‚ and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. There are over 500 ethnic groups in Nigeria of which the three largest
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Introduction to Investment Banking An investment bank is not a bank in the usual sense. It doesn’t have checking or savings accounts‚ nor does it make auto or home loans. It is a bank in the general sense‚ in that it helps businesses‚ governments‚ and agencies to get financing from investors in a similar way that regular banks help these organizations get financing by lending money that the banks’ customers have deposited in the banks’ savings‚ checking‚ and money market accounts‚ and CDs. In other
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0 The use of money and its transmission through the economy by means of a banking system characterise modern economies. Money has been used for thousands of years‚ but has evolved to more sophisticated forms and its transmission has improved over time. There have long been questions over the effects money and banking have in the economy. Frequently they have given rise to intense debate‚ and are seldom far from discussion on the economy’s performance‚ prices‚ exchange-rates and so on. The British
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II. CAUSE AND EFFECTS The fraud at DHB Industries developed directly from collusion of upper-management‚ poor oversight by the board of directors‚ and equity based compensation. Knapp and Knapp (2012) note the constant involvement of Brooks‚ Hatfield‚ and Schlegel in falsifying accounting records and attempting to conceal the fraud. With the ability to override controls within the company which identify such irregularities‚ the involvement of practically all executives allowed for the concealment
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source for decision makers in the global Islamic finance industry‚ providing strategic insights from Ernst & Young Dear Banking & Finance Leader‚ It is with great pleasure that we present to you the 9th annual edition of the World Islamic Banking Competitiveness Report 2012/13‚ developed in collaboration with leading global professional services and advisory firm Ernst & Young‚ and exclusively launched onsite at the 19th Annual World Islamic Banking Conference (WIBC 2012) during a specially convened WIBC
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of IT for banks Banking sector is becoming highly competitive day by day. So banks can not break away from themselves from changing technological environment. Banks are dependent on IT based systems for almost all of their activities‚ although the level of sophistication and refinement in such systems may vary from bank to bank or across activities or banking Industry segments (commercial banks‚ cooperative banks etc.). Internet has significantly influenced delivery channels of the banks. Internet
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Throughout the years‚ musicians and artists have used many different techniques in order to make themselves sound different and to sell records. Quite recently‚ many musicians and artists have been using a pitch correcting program called Autotune. One rapper/hip-hop artist‚ T-Pain‚ is mainly responsible for transforming the use of Autotune. Autotune was first invented in 1997 by Dr. Harold “Andy” Hildebrand. Dr. Hildebrand founded Antares Audio Technologies in 1990 after working as a research scientist
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Impact on Industries That’s the macro picture. A sectoral analysis sheds more light on the possible damage to different industries. "Terrorism’s economic impact has normally been short lived‚" says a report titled‚ Economic Impact of Terrorism‚ by securities firm Anand Rathi Financial Services. "The immediate impact of terrorism is the loss of life‚ destruction of property and loss of man-days. Terrorist acts also cause uncertainty‚ which impacts economic activity. Tourism is one of the first
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impact of ICT on the banking industry (a case study of FIRST CAPITAL PLUS). Three categories of variables that relate to the adoption and implementation of information technology devices were used for the study. These include the nature and degree of adoption of innovative technologies‚ degree of utilization of the identified technologies‚ and the impact of the adoption of ICT devices on banks operation. These developments in technology have resulted in new delivery channels for banking products and services
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