Question: Can Singapore Become Asia’s Leading Financial Centre? A financial centre can be defined as central locations where there are a large number of financial institutions such as banks and capital markets that allow currency to be collected‚ switched‚ disbursed and exchanged. Going forward‚ I will be listing down the factors leading to a successful international financial centre‚ the current state‚ challenges‚ strengths and weaknesses of Singapore’s financial centre‚ as well as proposed recommendations
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Introduction E lectronic banking is an umbrella term for the process by which a customer may perform banking transactions electronically without visiting a brick-and-mortar institution. The following terms all refer to one form or another of electronic banking: personal computer (PC) banking‚ Internet banking‚ virtual banking‚ online banking‚ home banking‚ remote electronic banking‚ and phone banking. PC banking and Internet or online banking are the most frequently used designations. It should
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Core banking and its importance in today’s banking environment 1.1. Definition and functionality Before elucidating what drives banks to modernize their core banking systems and how to start a major project like this it is important to understand what the term core banking refers to and how a core banking system is defined. The answer to the question “what is a core banking system?” varies by whom you ask. However‚ the answer is significant for the scope of a core banking modernization initiative
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The term fraud is defined in different ways by different authors. Boniface (1991) defined fraud as any premeditated act of criminal deceit‚ trickery or falsification by a person or group or persons with the intention of altering facts in order to obtain in due personal monetary advantage. It usually involves the perpetration of some forgery or falsification of documents or illegal authorisation of signature. The certified fraud examines in Adeyemo (2012) defines fraud as illegal acts characterized
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Sardor Yuldashev‚ WIUT‚ Economics with Finance‚ 2011 Content 1. Introduction 3 2. Competition in the US health insurance industry 3 3. Analysis of the US health insurance market structure 7 4. Strategies oligopoly firms use 8 4.1. Collusions‚ mergers and acquisitions 8 4.2. First-mover advantage 9 4.3. Punishment strategy 10 5. Pricing strategy and recommendations 11 6. Conclusion 12 7. Appendix 13 8. Bibliography 14 Introduction The purpose of the coursework is to
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Comparison between Islamic Banking and Conventional Banking Introduction As far as commercial banking is referred‚ there are two main differences from the traditional approaches (conventional or Islamic)‚ and these are very significant evolutions. One is that this method believes commercial banks as serving providers‚ rather of like “money lenders” (conventional) or “investing-collaborators” (Islamic). Interest-free banking is inferred as a sub-model; the conventional banking is considered as an
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of marketing information from its multiple sources. Position of banking sector in Bangladesh A bank is a financial institution and a financial intermediary that accepts deposits and channels those deposits into lending activities‚ either directly by loaning or indirectly through capital markets. A bank is the connection between customers that have capital deficits and customers with capital surpluses.The Bangladesh banking sector relative to the size of its economy is comparatively larger than
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1.Q: Explain the functions of Merchant Banking. Functions Merchant banking is a service oriented industry. Merchant banks all over the world carry out the same set of services. Merchant banks in India carry out the following functions and services specifically. 1. Corporate Counseling 2. Project counseling 3. Pre-investment Studies 4. Capital restructuring 5. Credit Syndication 6. Issue Management and underwriting 7. Portfolio Management 8. Working Capital Finance 9. Acceptance Credit and Bill
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paper’s main aim is to find out which banking system‚(Islamic or conventional) performed better overall.11 different ratios were used and they were grouped into 4 different categories which are Profitability‚Liquidity‚Risk and solvency‚and Efficiency. 5 banks from Islamic will be compared with another 5 banks from conventional banking for a period of 5 years that is from years 2006 to 2010. To see whether there is a difference in the performance of the two banking systems which are Islamic and conventional
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Economies of scale: The increase in efficiency of production as the number of goods being produced increases. Government policies: restrictions on advertising leading to surrogate ADVT.‚ polic ies which make it difficult for expansion of companies. Access to distribution channels: cost of distribution in this industry needs to be looked at logically. If firms in this industry carries significant costs from distribution which are then reflected in their prices to customers‚ the customers
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