Retail Banking with ING Vysya
Case study - 103 pages - Finance
Today retail banking has emerged as the dark horse in banking sector. Low interest rates and booming consumerism have unleashed credit off take in retail segment in a big way. The personal banking segment customers have become the center of attraction... Credit exposures through...
Financial Risk Management - In which circumstances should you hold gold?
Essay - 9 pages - Finance
The universal crisis of capitalism that shook the world in the year 2008 showed that speculative business, especially mortgage loans, are at high risk, because in the long term they triggered a crisis due to the bursting of the bubble financial. They have thus shown that there is no way to...
US quantitative easing
Case study - 9 pages - Finance
Through 3 phases of QE implementation, QE1, QE2 and QE3, more than 1 billion dollars has been flood out to the market by Fed. Although the effects of QE are still somehow confusing, the QE application in the US proves a positive situation in financial market. Over-using of this method may pose...
Quantitative Easing as a policy
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Quantitative easing (QE) is the unconventional monetary policy that central banks apply to stimulate the economy after the ineffective of other conventional monetary policies. Quantitative easing is implemented through the buying of financial assets from private institutions and commercial banks....
Is the Subprime crisis a financial or global crisis?
Essay - 25 pages - Finance
Was the subprime crisis predictable? Some analysts predicted it in 2005 as a continuation of a long boom, during which loans to U.S. households rose sharply. Now the U.S. Federal Reserve (FED), led for over 20 years by Alan Greenspan takes a systematic approach to support the banking crisis stock...
Forecasting time series using neural network model: Application for Korean stock market
Thesis - 8 pages - Finance
This study examines the performance of forecasting model established by using neural network. The neural network model proposed in this study is implemented to forecast the stock price stream of Korean stock market. Factors for forecasting that influence Korean stock market are obtained by the...
A study on foreign currency funding option
Tutorials/exercises - 35 pages - Finance
Globalization of economy has resulted in interlinking of financial markets in different countries into a common worldwide pool of funds to be accessed by borrowers and lenders alike. No sector of the economy seems to be more global in its orientation and operations than finance. To succeed in...
Fair Value Implications for the Asset Mix of a Pension Fund
Essay - 86 pages - Finance
Pension funds serve to collect and manage an amount of capital, sufficient to make all payments to which participants of the fund are entitled based on the pension plan. The Akzo Nobel Pension Fund (APF) is responsible for the provision of pensions for all employees of Akzo Nobel in the...
The financial crisis: The need for a new system
Dissertation - 54 pages - Economy general
This thesis is about our (the world's) monetary and financial system. It starts by focusing on monetary creation, which is the basis of our financial system. After defining the monetary creation process, it is about its control, which has been transferred from the States to the Central Banks and...
The subprime crisis: Definitions, causes and consequences
Essay - 8 pages - Finance
Subprimes are mortgages granted in the United States to customers who are not very solvent, on the basis of an increase in the interest rate. One applies a kind of premium to a borrower when his solvency is below a certain threshold. This operation is supposed to compensate for the...
The subprime crisis in the United States and its impact on the European financial markets
Thesis - 91 pages - Economy general
It was in February 2007 that the current financial market crisis was revealed to the United States. Institutions specializing in subprime loans announced their first losses and provisions. The financial experts compiled several scenarios. Was this a temporary crisis that would correct the...
Wash bar (plane business)
Business plan - 46 pages - Services marketing
The market for Laundromat Cafes is an evolving market. Its current volume is very low (almost non-existent direct competitors) in contrast to that of the laundromats that are close to saturation. We propose to establish a laundry-friendly laundromat which will be a place with full wireless...
Reebok PLC-Managing financial resources
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Reebok is a public limited company that designs, markets and sell sports accessories. Reebok Company was founded in 1983, with its headquarters located in London, United Kingdom. The company operates as a subsidiary to Adidas, AG. The product line for Reebok PLC includes footwear and apparel...
Caterpillar - Growing in the US Market
Market study - 10 pages - Business strategy
"Caterpillar is headquartered at the US and its business is growing in American region. Three new facilities have been added in the US. The capital expenditure as planned for the year 2011 is $3 billion with more than half of which is planned for the US market. As the economic environment is...
Wells Fargo's cross selling strategies - published: 19/02/2012
Thesis - 7 pages - Business strategy
Wells Fargo is an American company and thus has to deal with the US government policy. Nowadays the latter is globally stable but the company must adapt to new education rules (such as educational loans), taxation, new technologies, access to property (real estate loans), and labor market....
Direct investment in Turkey (2006)
Essay - 11 pages - Economy general
We are currently investigating an investment proposal concerning the chocolate confectionery sector, in Turkey. Specifically the analysis concerns the chocolate tablets production. Below follows an explanation of the elements of the investment decision, the general aspects of the Turkish economy...
Banking and insurance: The money market
Case study - 26 pages - Finance
The money market is a market for financial assets that are close substitutes for money. It is a market for overnight to short-term funds and instruments having a maturity period of one or less than one year. It is not a place (like the Stock Market), but an activity conducted by telephone. The...
Lessons from subprime meltdown
Thesis - 6 pages - Economy general
The sub-prime market emerged in the United States during the 1990's on account of a prolonged period of low interest rates during the Alan Greenspan regime. Many institutions offered home loans to borrowers who were unable to get the best rates from lenders, either due to...
Dividend policy irrelevance
Thesis - 5 pages - Finance
Depending on its life cycle and strategy, a firm has different financial needs. These financial needs could be fulfilled by internal or external resources. The sources of internal financing is cash flows. External financing could be debt and/or equity. When a firm uses debt, the interest...
Interaction of sectors and real money
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The importance of money as means of payment and as a unit of account and the relationship between the money supply and the change in the general price level is among the topics of greatest interest of the first economic thinkers. Initially, the concern was with the role of money in the...
The Hydro Quebec company and organizational changes
Case study - 4 pages - Management
The Hydro Quebec Company is owned by the Government of Quebec. It is responsible for the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in energy sources of Quebec. Its headquarters are located in Montreal. Hydro Quebec was born in 1944; its goal was to serve the Montreal area by...
Risk Management: Evaluation of the risks
Course material - 8 pages - Business strategy
What is a risk? Risk, in insurance terms, is the eventuality of a loss or other adverse event that has the potential to interfere with an organization's capacity to fulfill its mandate, and for which an insurance claim may be proposed. What is risk management? Risk management makes certain...
The identification and management of financial risks
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Finance
Financial risk exposure to adverse events that erode the profitability of the company and may in, extreme circumstances,lead to the collapse of the case. They may be doubtful, unfavorable changes in exchange rates, dependence on one supplier, the loss of a major customer, the loss of...
Case study of General Electric
Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy
Jack Welch was the CEO of General Electric (GE) from 1981 until 2001. He is regarded as one of the most successful CEOs of the 20th century. This essay intends to analyze Jack Welch's two-decade leadership by answering the question of what made him the "Manager of the Century" and GE the...
Does Islamic finance have the potential to develop in France?
Internship report - 4 pages - Theories and economic notions
Since the opening of the first Islamic bank in Egypt in 1963, Islamic finance has exponentially increased in influence and visibility worldwide. While it remains a small player in the world of finance (0.5%), Islamic finance is becoming increasingly important due to significant increases in oil...
Economics in Mexico
Case study - 2 pages - Economy general
Mexico's economy is the thirteenth leading global economy and eleventh when looking at the purchasing power; this is in accordance to the reports of the World Bank (Cantwell et al. 336). Since the crisis that took place in 1994 majority of administrations have made efforts to improve the...
The functioning of the Central European Bank and the American Federal fund
Thesis - 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...
Does Islamic finance have the potential to develop in France?
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
Since the opening of the first Islamic bank in Egypt in 1963, Islamic finance has exponentially increased in influence and visibility worldwide. While it remains a small player in the world of finance (0.5%), Islamic finance is becoming increasingly important due to significant increases in oil...
Civilization
Course material - 47 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
No empire other than Great Britain brought to its colonies the technological tools (railroads, modern medicine) and the political ideals (capitalism, the rule of law) that made possible the development of stable and egalitarian societies. This explains why 54 nations, most of them former British...
Cash management services at HDFC Bank
Case study - 55 pages - Finance
There are currently about 101 commercial banks in India, which include public sector banks, regional rural banks & private sector banks both domestic & foreign. Public sector banks account for only 27, while the private sector includes 32 (24 old, 8 new) domestic banks and 42 foreign banks. RBI...
