banking sector came to force to compete in a market driven environment. Banks these days provide a variety of services ranging from opening a savings account to internet banking, granting loans to selling insurance, providing locker facilities to transferring money abroad. Their customers come from all classes of society from a salaried group to a Multi National Corporation having its business activities all around the world. The banks have to satisfy all the customers belonging to different social groups
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This article was downloaded by: [Loughborough University] On: 26 March 2015, At: 11:27 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Public Money & Management Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rpmm20 How the UK government responded to the fiscal crisis: an outsider's view Walter Kickert
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BBA 861(GLOBAL STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT) ASSIGNMENT GLOBAL STRATEGIC PLAN FOR KENYA COMMERCIAL BANK LTD NAME : GUYO ABDUBA ADAMS REG NO : D53/OL/23O72/2012 LEC TURER : DR LINDA KIMENCU INTRODUCTION Kenya commercial bank also known as KCB group is a financial service provider with its headquarters domiciled in Nairobi Kenya with substations in Tanzania, South Sudan, Burundi, Uganda and Rwanda. KCB group is the largest financial service provider in the great lakes by asset base
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intermediaries. Most financial institutions are highly regulated by government. Broadly speaking, there are three major types of financial institutions: • Deposit-taking institutions that accept and manage deposits and make loans, including banks, building societies, credit unions, trust companies, and mortgage loan companies; • Insurance companies and pension funds; • Brokers, underwriters and investment funds. Functions of a Financial Institution: The functions of Financial Institutions
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real economy. The countercyclical capital buffers includes a banks’ macro-financial environment so that in a period of growth capital buffers need to be build up to protect banks against future potential losses. National authorities monitor excess credit growth and determine when a countercyclical capital buffer needs to be in place and at what percentage. International active banks’ buffer is calculated as a weighted average of the national requirements. The buffer can be between zero and 2,5% of
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A bank is a financial institution licensed by a government. Its primary activities include providing financial services to customers while enriching its investors. Many financial activities were allowed over time. For example banks are important players in financial markets and offer financial services such as investment funds. In some countries such as Germany, banks have historically owned major stakes in industrial corporations while in other countries such as the United States banks are prohibited
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Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) Working Group on Savings Mobilization RURAL BANK OF PANABO (RBP), PHILIPPINES (CASE STUDY) Ulrich Wehnert Eschborn, 1999 CGAP Working Group on Savings Mobilization CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS LIST OF TABLES AND GRAPHS 1 CONTEXT 1.1 1.2 Macroeconomic context iv v 1 1 Context of the financial sector 1 1.2.1 Role of the central bank 1 1.2.2 Regulation and supervision 2 1.2.3 General development and characteristics of the financial sector 3 1
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sector banks the banks have become a profit centre and the functions become changed and now banks are doing the insurance and mutual funds also. But nationalised banks are still service oriented in extending loans for Education loan, and rural development activities. A Bank is an organization which lends money to the borrowers for a purposeful task, and provides a facility to deposit and withdraw money when needed and charge for it. HISTORY OF BANKING IN INDIA Phase I The General Bank of India
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Introduction: Financial inclusion is the availability of banking services at an affordable cost to disadvantaged and low-income groups. In India the basic concept of financial inclusion is having a saving or current account with any bank. In reality it includes loans, insurance services and much more. Why We Need Financial Inclusion: * In the path of super power we the Indians will need to achieve the growth of our country with equality. * To remove poverty from the Indian
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1- Describe the security vulnerabilities exploited by the hackers. “The 21st century bank heist” was one of the biggest bank robberies that demonstrated by a group of hackers, and a global network of cyber criminals operating more than 26 countries stole 45 million by hacking into a database of prepaid debit cards. Hackers got into bank databases, and eliminated withdrawal limits on all available pre-paid debit cards and created access codes then loaded that data into a plastic card (an old hotel's
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