Recent reports on banking sector often indicate that India is slowly but surely moving from a regime of `large number of small banks' to `small number of large banks'. The aim of this paper is to probe into the various motivations for mergers and acquisitions in the Indian Banking sector. Thus, literature is reviewed to look into the various motivations behind a banks’ merger/ acquisition event. The paper also takes us through the international mergers & acquisitions scenario comparing it with
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Raven Construction PLC now requires £1.2m for its current planned expansion. Raven may find it very difficult to borrow more money from the bank and will need to consider all options to generate the finance it requires. Finance can either be generated from internal and external sources. Internal sources include retained profit and potential sale of assets while external sources could either be short or long-term arrangements. Long-term options are share capital
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Bonds with New Fund | 24 January 2011 | Kuala Lumpur: CIMB-Principal Asset Management Berhad (“CIMB-Principal”) today launched the CIMB-Principal Strategic Income Bond Fund (“the Fund”), a fund that allows investors to capitalise on Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East’s improving credit conditions given the high potential of more rating upgrades. Campbell Tupling, Chief Executive of CIMB-Principal Asset Management said, “The demand for high-quality bonds in Asia, Australia, New
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Business report for Sky City Entertainment Group Limited and tourism industry. Contents Introduction 3 Discussion of findings 3 Industry background 3 Investigation of Financial information 5 Accounting elements 5 Ratios analysis 6 Profitability and Efficiency Ratios 6 Financial Stability Ratios 7 Financial Structure Ratios 7 Investment Ratios 8 Share Market Data 8 Brokers Recommendation 8 Share performance 9 Conclusion: 9 Recommendations 9 Reference List: 10
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establishment of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited on March 13, 1983, is the true reflection of this inner urge of its people, which started functioning with erect from March 30, 1983. Now, a question may arise- „what is Islami Banking?‟ According to OIC- “Islamic bank is a financial institution whose status, rules and procedures expressly state its commitment to the principle of Islamic Shariah and to the banning of the receipt and payment of interest on any of its operations.” This bank is the first of its
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Segregation of duties is to ensure that a single individual will be responsible for only one component. One of the benefits of maintaining separated duties is that it reduces the risks of fraud in the business. Other benefits are safeguarding the assets, making the financial reports fairly presented, and reducing the cost of external audit. Four functions are commonly segregated in practice. They are custody, authorization, record keeping and reconciliation. We intend to describe these functions
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India the banks are being segregated in different groups. Each group has their own benefits and limitations in operating in India. Each has their own dedicated target market. Few of them only work in rural sector while others in both rural as well as urban. Many even are only catering in cities. Some are of Indian origin and some are foreign players. All these details and many more are discussed over here. The banks and its relation with the customers, their mode of operation, the names of banks under
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An evaluation of the relationship between capitalisation and bank profitability BY SINDISO SIBANDA DEDICATIONS This project is a special dedication to my wife Esinathi Sibanda; daughters Faith and Cindy Sibanda my brother Leonard, my sister Nyembezi and my parents for their unwavering support in my studies. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost, I desire to convey my sincere gratitude to Mr. T Chigamba, my research project
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In a fixed exchange rate regime the term ‘Devaluation’ is used. It means a deliberate downward adjustment of a country's official exchange rate by its government i.e. central bank (RBI in India) relative to other currencies; Where as in floating or fluctuating exchange rate currency's value is allowed to fluctuate according to the foreign exchange market. In this case, it is known as Depreciation. There are two implications
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was financed almost entirely by banks at interest rates laid down by the central bank. The idea that the interest rate should be related to the creditworthiness of the borrower was still heretical. Even the quantum of working capital finance was related more to the credit need of the borrower than to creditworthiness on the principle that bank credit should be used only for productive purposes. What is more, the mandatory consortium arrangements regulating bank credit ensured that it was not
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