and importance of international banking? The origin of international banking dates back to the 2nd century BC when Babylonian temples safeguarded the idle funds and extended loans to merchants to finance the movements of goods. The loans extended by the Florentine banking houses were the first instance of international lending. During the nineteenth century many innovations were witnessed in the international lending‚ leading to trade financing and investment banking. Trade financing started as short
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Shadow Banking System and its role in the global financial crisis What is shadow banking system Shadow Banking System (SBS) refers to a collection of financial entities‚ infrastructures and practices which support financial transactions but beyond the regulation and monitor from the government or official regulators. Some financial institutions‚ like investment banks‚ may conduct some their transactions in the shadow banking system‚ but they are not SBS institutions themselves. The term was
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Quality Cost 1 Quality is defined from the customer´s point of view l Performance l Performance or the primary operating characteristics of a product or service. Example: For a car‚ it is speed‚ handling‚ and acceleration. For a restaurant‚ it is good food. l Features l Features or the secondary characteristics of a product or service. Example: For a TV‚ it is an automatic tuner. For a restaurant‚ it is linen table cloths and napkins . l Reliability l Reliability
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affected you personally? Has it made you better off or worse off? Why? Financial innovation has huge impact on our society. Those innovation are mostly making financial problems easier to deal with. For example ATM‚ e-banking… Financial innovations are saving a lot of transaction costs. For me the best innovation was ATM. Where ever you go you can pull out you money from ATM little fee if you are not using your bank ATM machine. I am a student studying abroad‚ for me it was a big necessity to have
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INTRODUCTION & HISTORY OF BANKING BANKING [pic] Introduction India cannot have a healthy economy without a sound and effective banking system. The banking system should be hassle free and able to meet the new challenges posed by technology and other factors‚ both internal and external. In the past three decades‚ India’s banking system has earned several outstanding achievements to its credit. The most striking is its
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E.E-BANKING: There is no official definition of this term‚ but it generally implies a service that allows customers to use some form of computer to access account-specific information and possibly conduct transactions form a remote location – such as home or at the workplace. The obvious advantage to the consumer is convenience – one bank recently used the advertising motto “bank naked” to emphasize the customer’s freedom to conduct routine banking transactions from the comfort and security of
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Banking Industry The Banking Industry was once a simple and reliable business that took deposits from investors at a lower interest rate and loaned it out to borrowers at a higher rate. However deregulation and technology led to a revolution in the Banking Industry that saw it transformed. Banks have become global industrial powerhouses that have created ever more complex products that use risk and securitisation in models that only PhD students can understand. Through technology development‚
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A Comparative Study of Islamic Banking in Pakistan: Proposing and Testing a Model BY Ashfaq Ahmad PhD Scholar 117/FUIMCS/Ph.D(MS)-2006 FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES 2009 A Comparative Study of Islamic Banking in Pakistan: Proposing and Testing a Model A thesis submitted to the FUIEMS Foundation University‚ Islamabad In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In MANAGEMENT SCIENCES BY Ashfaq Ahmad PhD Scholar FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES 2009 APPROVAL
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Research Report of Money and Banking Issues and Problems in Islamic Banking Abstract:- Three decades have passed since the first Islamic bank began its operations in MitGhamr‚ Egypt‚ and more than a decade has passed since the Islamic Republics ofIran and Pakistan adopted a non-interest-based financial system. Profit Loss Sharing (PLS) dominates the theoretical literature on Islamic finance. Broadly‚ PLS is a contractual arrangement between two or more transacting parties‚ which allows
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Investment Banking in 2008 Group Report 1. Failure Analysis: Identify the major factors that contributed to Bear Stearns’s failure? Who stood to benefit from its implosion? How did Bear Stearns’s collapse differ from the ‘Long Term Capital Management’ failure a decade earlier? What could Bear Stearns have done differently to avoid this fate? In the early 2000’s? And during the summer of 2007? And during the week of March 10‚ 2008? (1) Identify
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