remarked as one of the six great powers in Europe‚ it was the oldest merchant bank in the United Kingdom at the time of its collapse (Robert 2002). Initially its main business was financing foreign trade. After the deregulation of financial market in 1986‚ Barings expanded aggressively into derivative trading and recruited some extreme risk takers. Aiming at being the pioneer in speculative derivative trading‚ The Bank appointed Nick Leeson who seemed to understand financial market as the Chief trader
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Merchant banks play an important role in mobilizing small savings and channeling them to productive investment. Since our capital market is not as efficient as others‚ yet it tries at best to create a strong‚ fair‚ efficient and effective market. Apart from they facilitate merchant bank so that they can help as possible as to organize such a valuable capital market mechanism. 1.2 Rationale of the study The rationality of our study on capital market as well as its right hand merchant bank is to
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of corruption. A survey of consumers carried out by the TIB in 1998 provides corroborating evidence for the types of corruption suggested by the diagnostic reports. Of 620 households in the TIB survey of corruption in Bangladesh‚ 53 had taken out a bank loan and 30 of them used bribery or influence to secure the loan. This study makes use of TIB’s repository of publicly available information on corruption. TIB Internal reports generated by the research staff support the general nature of our findings
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State Bank of India is the largest state-owned banking and financial services company in India. The Bank provides banking services to the customer. In addition to the banking services‚ the Bank through their subsidiaries‚ provides a range of financial services‚ which include life insurance‚ merchant banking‚ mutual funds‚ credit card‚ factoring‚ security trading‚ pension fund management and primary dealership in the money market. The Bank operates in four business segments‚ namely Treasury‚ Corporate/
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C. Takaful Operating Models • The Mudaraba Model The mudaraba is a kind of partnership in which one party that affords supplies funds while the other offers its expertise and management. It is based on classic profit sharing principles‚ for example a partnership in which two parties involved‚ one is fund provider which is called the participant‚ while the other person or party is called the operator who provides expertise and management of the fund. Both share the profits of the joint venture
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www.sciencerecord.com Science Series Data Report Vol. 4‚ No. 1; Jan 2012 AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF RELATIVE EFFICIENCY USING FRONTIER ANALYSIS APPROACH – A CASE OF ISLAMIC BANKS Khizer Ali (Corresponding author) Hailey College of Commerce‚ University of the Punjab‚ Lahore‚ Pakistan Tel: +923458800015 Email: vjkhizer@yahoo.com Muhammad Farhan Akhtar Hailey College of Commerce‚ University of the Punjab‚ Lahore‚ Pakistan Tel: +923464666786Email: vjfarhan@yahoo.com Shama Sadaqat Hailey
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between a firm’s internal and external environments. a. stakeholder model of corporate governance b. stakeholder bias c. code of ethics d. stakeholder interaction model e. corporate interface model ANS: D PTS: 1 5. The degree to which a firm understands and addresses stakeholder demands can be referred to as a. a stakeholder orientation. b. a shareholder orientation. c. the stakeholder interaction model. d. a two-way street. e. a continuum. ANS: A PTS: 1 6
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ALLAHABAD BANK About Allahabad Bank Allahabad Bank is one of the premier nationalized banks in India. It is also the oldest joint stock bank of India. It was incorporated by a group of Europeans at Allahabad on April 24‚ 1865. It was the time Indian economy had started shifting towards organized trade and business affairs. After some years in 1920‚ the P&O Bank brought Allahabad Bank and its headquarters at Kolkata. The Allahabad bank got an entirely new identity when it was nationalized in
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Both Porter and Shank assess the addition of value as management of costs in an effort to increase efficiency or add value to the organization as a whole. Porter model concentrates primarily on the internal control of operations via the value chain‚ whereas Shank concentrates on value addition. Porter’s model utilizes internal cost strategies for internal reduction of costs to increase value only on the value additions (microcosm) whereas Shank expands the value chain against both internal and external
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Suzy Porter is a fourth grade‚ public school‚ student with mild cerebral palsy. It has not been determined which type of cerebral palsy she has‚ whether it is spastic‚ athetoid‚ ataxic or mixed. However‚ it is known that she has some difficulty with her gross and fine motor skills. She has a learning disability and difficulty with penmanship which is probably due to her limited fine motor skills. Currently‚ Suzy spends the majority of the school day in a regular classroom where she receives one on
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