When a famous bank ( Société Générale ) is plunged into the world's largest financial fraud ever known by a simple junior trader
Case study - 16 pages - Finance
In January 2008, the financial world was disrupted by the world's largest financial fraud case known to date. The famous French bank, Société Générale, recorded a loss of 5 billion euros due to false positions taken by a junior trader, Jérôme Kerviel. To fully appreciate how he did this,...
How bank lending could lead to widespread inflation?
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
Where a creditor (e.g. a bank) and a debtor (e.g. a household) are bound by a fixed interest rate, inflation favors the debtor at the expense of the creditor (credit). Consider a household that borrows from his bank a sum S the nominal interest rate of 8 %, payable the following...
The growing impact of operational risks and its application to banks
Course material - 70 pages - Finance
Since their implementation in the banks in January 2007, operational risks are considered a main point of the strategy of banks. Operational risks are defined as “the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems, or from external...
Bank secrecy analysis
Case study - 7 pages - Finance
Banks under the protection of secrecy are forbidden to give out information about the accounts of their customers to the authorities unless there are special circumstances, such as filed criminal complaints about the customers (Kingsbury, 2009). The main features of banks that...
Investment banking sector: a look into the future
Case study - 15 pages - Finance
Disappointing economic performances reported by main banking players in the last couple of years are expected to continue in the near future, reflecting an overall stagnating economic environment not only in Europe, but potentially also in U.S. (dependent on fiscal cliff starting in January...
The implementation of CRM systems in banks: The case of Caisse d'Epargne
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
Since a few years, many banks have adopted strategies of Customer Relationship Management. CRM can be defined as an approach based on new communication and information technologies, in order to identify the customers' needs and expectations to provide them with adapted products and...
Barclays bank: Strategic management
Case study - 6 pages - Finance
Barclays is a British bank based in London UK and is over 100 years old. Its history began in 1896 when several small London banks decided to join their forces to form a new bank that takes the name of Barclays & Company. In this area, it represented 182 new bank...
The implementation of CRM systems in banks: The case of Caisse d'Epargne - publié le 22/11/2012
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
Since a few years, many banks have adopted strategies of Customer Relationship Management. CRM can be defined as an approach based on new communication and information technologies, in order to identify the customers' needs and expectations to provide them with adapted products and...
Barclays bank: Strategic management - publié le 30/11/2012
Case study - 6 pages - Finance
Barclays is a British bank based in London UK and is over 100 years old. Its history began in 1896 when several small London banks decided to join their forces to form a new bank that takes the name of Barclays & Company. In this area, it represented 182 new bank...
The functioning of the Central European Bank and the American Federal fund
Dissertation - 3 pages - Economy general
The European Central Bank and the US Federal Reserve: These are two institutions that operate the two most important monetary policies in the world: the euro and the dollar. An essential function of a Central Bank is to regulate the evolution of money supply and interest rates, but...
Comparison of the monetary policies of the American Federal fund (EDF) and the European Central bank (BCE)
Dissertation - 7 pages - Economy general
Interest rates of the Fed are currently at an all-time low. The rates of the European Central Bank are at their lowest levels in history and on April 2, 2009, there was a further decline with a reduction to 1%.Indeed, monetary policy is an important instrument of control, and along with...
Chemical Bank: Implementing the Balanced Scorecard
Dissertation - 13 pages - Management
In 1993, Chemical Bank and Hanover Corporation concluded a merging process. The new larger banking company was better-positioned to compete with other major players in the market. Michael Hegarty, the head of the Retail Bank Division of Chemical Banking Corporation, wanted to...
Chemical Bank: Implementing the Balanced Scorecard - publié le 06/02/2011
Dissertation - 13 pages - Management
In 1993, Chemical Bank and Hanover Corporation concluded a merging process. The new larger banking company was better-positioned to compete with other major players in the market. Michael Hegarty, the head of the Retail Bank Division of Chemical Banking Corporation, wanted to...
The Politics and Policies of Cross Borders Region: Is the West Bank barrier an actual border?
Dissertation - 8 pages - Political science
Israel has been building a separation wall between its territory and Palestine since 2002. A decision that goes against the current global movement for a borderless world. Whereas it has never been that easy to circulate from a country to another, some prefer to protect themselves against a...
The European Central Bank - published: 27/01/2011
Essay - 2 pages - European union
While the U.S. Federal Reserve has already lowered interest rates, the ECB has delayed a similar decline in interest rates. Indeed, the ECB sees Europe as "Robust" and sees no need to lower its interest rates. In trying to cope with inflation, the ECB did not realize that the risk of a slowdown...
The introduction of Islamic banking in France: A research on the potential market for retail Islamic banking - published: 09/02/2011
Thesis - 37 pages - Finance
This study provides an assessment on the current problems and progresses made in France for the introduction of Islamic banking into its economy and contains an evaluation and an analysis of the potential market for Islamic retail banks in France. The research is divided into two...
Customer retention in financial institutions (banks)
Dissertation - 6 pages - Management
The customer loyalty program was first implemented by American Airlines in the United States in the year 1981. Today, virtually all airlines have adopted the customer loyalty program and is currently followed by other business sectors. Ever since the initiation of the customer loyalty program in...
US banks - Strategic project
Dissertation - 5 pages - Finance
U.S. banks have traditionally been considered leaders in the global banking sector. They produce regularly high profitability, more than their international competitors. They have been pioneers in many spheres, and banking products, and are known for their constant innovation. Several...
The European Central Bank (ECB) - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 14 pages - European union
The Eurosystem includes the national central bank (NCB) and the European central bank (ECB). All states that have central bank in the eurosystem are in the European Union and there are 27 member states. The countries which have not adopted the Euro but that are in the...
The Islamic development bank
Dissertation - 5 pages - Finance
The development of a consistent banking system with adequate funding for a population appears to be a prerequisite for the economic development of a country. However the ethics of Fundamentalist Islam have long led a strong resistance to the development of modern financial tools in many parts of...
Policies and analysis of the liberalization of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Dissertation - 7 pages - International relations
The International Monetary Fund and World Bank were both formed at an international conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire (USA) in June 1944. The conference participants were keen to establish a framework for cooperation and economic development that would lay the groundwork for...
Rise of The World Bank
Dissertation - 5 pages - Finance
The World Bank and the IMF are the main institutions which perform the function of managing globalization in financial terms. This paper will present a case study of the World Bank. The World Bank Group appoints five institutions that are intended to promote, economic...
An overview of the World Bank
Dissertation - 6 pages - Economy general
In April 2007, a scandal broke out around the president of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz. He had granted a salary increase of nearly 50% in 2005 to his girlfriend, Shaha Ali Riza. This salary hike was double the amount allowed under the employee guidelines. Beyond the depravity of the...
Principal component filter banks for optimal multi-resolution analysis
Dissertation - 9 pages - Computer science
An important issue in multi-resolution analysis is that of optimal basis selection. An optimal P-band perfect reconstruction filter bank (PRFB) is derived in this seminar, which minimizes that approximation error (in the mean square) between the original signal and its low resolution...
Communication plan for the online broker 'Binckbank.fr' - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 9 pages - Services marketing
Binckbank is an American company founded in the year 2000. It employs 560 people throughout the world and has about 300,000 account holders. In France, the Binckbank's subsidiary offers two services: securities account to invest in stock trades, and provision of bank accounts to take...
A banker's role in approving a project
Dissertation - 2 pages - Finance
Earlier, the role of a banker was mainly that of a money lender. Today, many businesses have ventured into insurance, real estate, personal services and e-banking. Traditionally, the bank played the role of an intermediation, that is to say, it collected and lent money by making...
Is "Al-Dar Islamic Fund", created by Pictet, a Geneva based Private Bank, Islamic compliant? - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 10 pages - Finance
Who has created the ?Al-Dar Islamic Fund'? Is it Pictet which is a Geneva based Private Bank which is in compliance with the Islamic culture? The answer to this buzzing mind boggling question is ?No'. As confirmed, the contained shares are not Islamic compliant and secondly the...
Comparison between the US and Japanese banking systems - published: 29/09/2010
Thesis - 11 pages - Economy general
The Japanese and the Americans have different perceptions of time. This difference exists as part of their culture and the values they advocate. The cultural, political and historical background consequently leads to two different banking forms: the bank-based and the market-based systems....
The banking risk management - published: 29/09/2010
Thesis - 36 pages - Finance
The risk of diversification is a basic precept of the banking activity. A big part of the large banking failures was due, in a way or another, to a concentration of the credit risk. The banking controlling authorities have, at all times, strongly encouraged the banks placed under their...
The need to protect the U.S. banking sector
Dissertation - 5 pages - Economy general
The Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD,) presented its analysis of the American financial crisis in the summer of 2008 as “The turmoil faced by the financial markets is increasingly showing signs of calming down. “ Contrary to this optimistic forecast, the U.S....
