INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIVE PRACTICES IN MANAGEMENT FINANCIAL INNOVATION IN CAPITAL MARKETS Dr.C.Meera ** Mr.R.S.Mohan ***T.Ramesh Financial innovation has been a continuous and integral part of growth of the capital markets. Greater freedom and flexibility have enabled companies to reinvent and innovate financial instruments. Many factors such as increased interest rate‚ volatility‚ frequency of tax and regulatory changes etc. have stimulated the process of financial innovation
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annualized interest rate of 14 percent. What is the one-year forward rate two years from now? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: a. 12.67 percent e. none of the above • Question 3 0 out of 1 points If markets are ____‚ investors could use available information ignored by the market to earn abnormally high returns. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: a. in equilibrium b. inefficient • Question 4 1 out of 1 points If a security is undervalued‚ some investors would capitalize from this
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What are the main characteristics of ‘emerging markets’? Introduction During the changing of world economy‚ it is increasingly common to hear the term ‘emerging markets’ and from news and report. In the mid-1980s‚ the term ‘emerging markets’ was created by the World Bank‚ and has significant influence on the global business world nowadays (Gwynne‚ Klak and Shaw 2003). To raise investor’s attention to those developing countries‚ there are numerous characteristics springing up which are given by
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Case 1: Citibank Indonesia 1. Citibank’s budgeting process is based on a bottom-up method. It is not compromised of specific goals to be attained by individual operating units‚ but is composed for the corporation as a whole. Citibank was aiming for long-term goals‚ which call for profit growth of 12-15% per year‚ 1.25% return on assets‚ and 20% return on equity. These standards are set for the entire company‚ and individual sectors‚ such as international branches‚ usually set their own higher goals
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defined sustainable development as “a process of managing a portfolio of assets to preserve and enhance the opportunities people face.” The assets that this definition refers to include not just traditionally accounted physical capital‚ but also natural and human capital. To be sustainable‚ development must provide for all these assets to grow over time—or at least not to decrease. The same logic applies to prudent management of a national economy
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P roc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 94‚ pp. 4229–4232‚ April 1997 Economic Sciences The capital-asset-pricing model and arbitrage pricing theory: A unification M. A LI K HAN* AND YENENG SUN†‡ *Department of Economics‚ Johns Hopkins University‚ Baltimore‚ MD 21218; †Department of Mathematics‚ National University of Singapore‚ Singapore 119260; and ‡Cowles Foundation‚ Yale University‚ New Haven‚ CT 06520 Communicated by Paul A. Samuelson‚ Massachusetts Institute of Technology‚ Cambridge
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Case 6: CitiBank 1. On a social standpoint‚ CitiBank is faced with more of their customers expanding their businesses globally and becoming e-enabled. Hence‚ CitiBank had to adapt to this new social trend by shifting to e-space. For instance‚ sophisticated‚ corporate customers wanted to collect payments online and have access to more efficient Web-enabled financial processes. Politically‚ regulators who became more cautious about privacy issues and wanted banks to be able to quickly identify
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Policy and Purpose The purpose of the GTCC is to serve as the primary payment method for DoD personnel for official travel expenses incurred during TDYs and also allows access to the GSA City Pair Program. Military personnel who violate and misuse the travel card can be prosecuted under Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) for failure to obey a lawful order or regulations‚ as well as any other applicable article of the UCMJ based on the nature of the misconduct involved. Civilian
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Risk Arbitrage: Abbott Labs and Alza Harvard Business Review Case Study 1. BACKGROUND Risk Arbitrage is essentially just arbitrage with some element of risk. Three main types of risk arbitrage are merger and acquisition arbitrage (also known as just merger arbitrage)‚ liquidation arbitrage‚ and pairs trading. We will focus on merger arbitrage‚ as it pertains to this case study. Merger arbitrage is an investment strategy that chooses to capitalize upon arbitrage that presents when a merger
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9-595-026 REV: OCTOBER 2‚ 2002 V. KASTURI RANGAN Citibank: Launching the Credit Card in Asia Pacific (A) On a rainy afternoon in 1989‚ Rana Talwar‚ head of Citibank’s Asia Pacific Consumer Bank‚ reflected upon the 11 years that had gone by since the Consumer Bank had established its consumer business in Asia. The branch banking business operations in 15 countries throughout Asia Pacific and the Middle East projected Citibank as a prestigious‚ consumer-oriented international bank and as the
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