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[...] develop and better service economic-growth needs more effectively and efficiently. The International Banker 2014 Banking Awards recognise the best banking institutions and individuals in the Western [...]

[...] number of these peoples’ needs through 2014. This trend will continue through 2015. The International Banker 2014 Banking Awards recognise the best banking institutions and individuals in the North [...]

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[...] accumulate money, actively manage it, and want a safe place to save it. However, financial institutions are traditionally oriented toward adult customers – and thus missing this market [...]

[...] banks are in negotiations to merge, a transaction that would produce one of the largest financial institutions in Southeast Asia in terms of assets. CIMB Group Holdings Bhd. (CIMB), the second largest [...]

[...] managing a growing mountain of regulatory requirements and escalating margin pressures, financial institutions face the emergence of formidable competitors, often from companies in the retail and [...]

[...] . For over five decades now, the Bank has been working with governments and other financial institutions to generate employment in all its member States – the number of CEB members currently [...]

[...] , has been close to zero since the financial crisis in 2008. The Fed is tasked with setting interest rates in the US, and this economic parameter has a wide impact that is felt all over the globe. [...]

[...] exit of capital from emerging markets if the Federal Reserve of the United States raises its interest rates. This warning was issued in a paper prepared by the IMF for the G20 finance ministers and [...]

[...] Firstly, almost one third of them (32 percent of respondents) think that rising inflation and interest rates will have the largest impact on Indonesia’s economy. The rate of Bank Indonesia’s [...]

[...] and major European economies before and after their respective central banks have increased interest rates. What he found was a pattern: whenever the Fed’s rates were higher than those in the UK or [...]

[...] Editor at Finance Publishing As the US economy moved into a phase of recovery from the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers and regulators sought new and proactive measures to stabilise the financial [...]

[...] , and peer-to-peer investing, industries have taken off well since the time of the global financial crisis seven years ago. Investors, who have been looking for alternative avenues of returns for [...]

[...] regulatory and legal restrictions placed on the global banking sector following the global financial crisis. However, this process of change is an iterative one. Regulators and policy makers have been [...]

[...] private firms. Grant Kirkpatrick, in his paper “The Corporate Governance Lessons from the Financial Crisis”, noted, “The financial crisis can be to an important extent attributed to failures and [...]

[...] regulatory authorities made a number of changes that helped the region even through the global financial crisis and has put the Asian region in a position to develop further through a blossoming [...]

[...] their investment choices. Certain advocates of the policy have argued that following the global financial crisis of 2008, bondholders were let off lightly from the creditor burden as these parties [...]

[...] (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) banking sectors following the global financial crisis; it was one of the few able to move into a phase of recovery without needing financial [...]

[...] economies across Europe attempt to recover and rebuild from the setbacks of the global financial crisis, economic forecasts indicate that GDP growth in Eastern and Central European [...]

[...] have been calling for a shake-up, or perhaps more appropriately, a clean-up, of the banking industry. This is not only to provide stability and security to global capital markets and the [...]

[...] , and the need to retain loyal custom, are key drivers for cloud adoption within the banking industry. Analysing high volumes of data in differing forms and from different locations is becoming [...]

[...] know-how of external experts as well. Given the disruptive potential of technology for the banking industry, these banks are doing the smart thing, experts believe. The areas in which financial [...]

[...] in a particular physical market – with such networks being historically common in the banking industry. This type of behaviour is difficult to moderate and detect and poses wider risks for [...]

[...] been working with policymakers and senior banking executives to improve the health of the financial sector and the wider economy, and also to help rebuild the continent’s mechanisms for feeding [...]

[...] came at the dawn of the Great Recession, after his Republican majority had evaporated. The financial sector had collapsed, and if things could not be fixed, both sides stood to feel the blame. The [...]

[...] ranked amongst the highest in the world and currently ranked the highest in the EU. The financial sector is a dominant economic contributor in the country, accounting for 36 percent of GDP.  [...]

[...] much more specific ways and cases. Under discussion currently and of pressing concern to the financial sector and economic regulatory community are a core set of tools that are designed to provide a [...]

[...] -banking services at least once over the 12-month period to July 2014, and 19 percent used mobile banking, almost a fifth. Of these, 90 percent said they checked their account balances or recent [...]

[...] the end of the physical presence of banking services altogether is on the near-term horizon. Mobile banking, more so than online banking, has been the biggest threat to branch-banking services. [...]

[...] the end of the physical presence of banking services altogether is on the near-term horizon. Mobile banking, more so than online banking, has been the biggest threat to branch-banking services. [...]

[...] is faster than internet banking was in the last decade. In the UK mobile banking apps have been downloaded more than 14 million times and these mobile banking users are [...]

[...] competitive business environments and a fastidious customer base, changes in the global banking sector are now occurring in an exponential fashion. Needless to say users in banks simply [...]

[...] . There has been an overhaul of the regulatory and legal restrictions placed on the global banking sector following the global financial crisis. However, this process of change is an iterative one. [...]

[...] expect that to develop locally and globally over the next few years in terms of the global banking sector? I think it’s very natural that politicians and regulators came out with new [...]