A study on the financial performance of the State Bank of India with reference to camel model
Dissertation - 41 pages - Finance
The Analyst has come up with a special issue on the banking industry for a third consecutive year. To assess Indian banks, The Analyst adopted the world-renowned CAMEL model (with minor modifications). The reason being, the CAMEL model is simple and makes it easy to compare a wide range of banks...
Credit appraisal system at Standard Chartered Bank and the SME credit department
Dissertation - 68 pages - Finance
The ongoing development of contemporary risk management methods and the increased use of innovative financial products such as securitization and credit derivatives have brought about substantial changes in the business environment faced by credit institutions today. Especially in the field of...
A study on working capital management in Visaka Industries Limited
Case study - 44 pages - Finance
The company was incorporated under the Indian Company's Act 1956 on 18th June 1981 as Visaka Asbestos Cement Product ltd and promoted by Dr.G.Vivekananda with investment of Rs 4 crores to set up cement asbestos plant in Medak district of Andhra Pradesh. It has grown in to multiple folds and now...
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 personal loans...
The study and research of different fields of certified financial planning
Tutorials/exercises - 22 pages - Finance
Every body has dreams, dreams for themselves, dreams for their families, To fulfill these one needs to back up earnings by investing wisely. Most people work hard and earn money but when it comes to financial planning and actually going ahead with it they don't care much. Every one is different,...
A look at financial derivatives in India
Dissertation - 53 pages - Finance
The derivatives markets has existed for centuries as a result of the need for both users and producers of natural resources to hedge against price fluctuations in the underlying commodities. Although trading in agricultural and other commodities has been the driving force behind the development...
All you wanted to know about HDFC and Standard Life Insurance
Case study - 66 pages - Finance
HDFC Standard Life is the name which is working as one of the best private insurance company in insurance sector. HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Ltd was incorporated on 14th August 2000.It got the certificate of registration on 23rd October. With such a large population and the untapped...
The effectiveness of distribution channel of Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company Limited
Case study - 16 pages - Finance
The story of insurance is probably as old as the story of mankind. Tendency of a human being to secure themselves against loss and disaster has been from the starting of world. They sought to avert the evil consequences of fire and flood and loss of life and were willing to make some sort of...
Financial institutions offering home loans
Case study - 38 pages - Finance
Housing finance is one of the industries, which are driven by ups and downs in the real state industry. Although there has been an upsurge in the demand for the home loans in the recent past, it has not translated into a stupendous performance by the housing finance companies (HDFC's). The...
The evolution and implications of Hedge Fund institutionalization
Essay - 12 pages - Finance
Hedge funds and their managers, once obscure enigmas of the investment community, have become in the last decade household names due to their overwhelming publicity as money-hungry madmen. Part of the reason why these loosely regulated funds have drawn so much attention is because their explosive...
Comparative analysis of madcap fund with reference to Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd
Case study - 35 pages - Finance
The Indian Mutual Funds Industry has witnessed a sea change since UTI was first established in 1963. From a single player the number of players has increased to 29 and the number of schemes has spiraled to 477. The last decade has been a period of rapid growth for the MF industry. The paper...
Creativity and innovation in retail banking: Comparative analysis of financial products offered by banks
Case study - 27 pages - Finance
A bank is a financial institution whose primary activity is to act as a payment agent for customers and to borrow and lend money. It is an institution for receiving, keeping, and lending money. Banking in India originated in the last decades of the 18th century. Central banking is the...
Risk management in the banking industry
Thesis - 23 pages - Finance
‘Safe, Secure & Sure' are the three fundamentals of life that are always sought after but seldom achieved. Human who is the only being blessed to analyze & anticipate the future has always been a spectator when it comes to being a perfectionist. As the future has disclosed the unpredictable...
Effect of change in Basel standards in the banking industry
Case study - 38 pages - Finance
As the deadline for implementing the Basel-III norms in Indian banks has arrived they are still preparing to solve the enigma of risk management for insuring more transparent and risk-free financial bases. According to the Reserve Bank of India, its association with the Basel 'Committee on...
Analysis of the Indian banking sector
Dissertation - 38 pages - Finance
This project focuses on the recent scenario of the Indian banking sector. To analyze the industry's growth and position, we have divided it into three sections. In the first section we have studied the Indian economy; second section is on banking industry in India; and the third section is the...
Competitor analysis of financial securities industries: Religare
Case study - 36 pages - Finance
The securities markets in India witnessed several policy initiatives since the year 2000, which further refined the markets micro-structure, modernized operations and broadened investment choices for investors. The irregularities in the securities transactions in the last quarter of the previous...
Money and transaction over the internet: Online banking
Thesis - 28 pages - Finance
The advent of internet has initiated an electronic revolution in the global banking sector. The dynamic and flexible nature of this communication channel as well as its ubiquitous reach has helped in leveraging a variety of banking activities. New banking intermediaries offering entirely new...
Joint ventures in the Indian insurance industry
Thesis - 23 pages - Finance
The aim of all insurance is to compensate the owner against loss arising from a variety of risks, which he anticipates, to his life, property and business. Insurance is mainly of two types: life insurance and general insurance. General insurance means Fire, Marine and Miscellaneous insurance...
Health insurance and how it works
Thesis - 21 pages - Finance
Insurance is vital to a free enterprise economy. It protects society from the consequences of financial loss from death, accidents, sicknesses, damage to property, and injury caused to others. The person seeking to transfer risk, the insured ( policyholder ), pays a relatively small amount, the...
Understanding how keyman insurance works
Thesis - 25 pages - Finance
“Life insurance isn't meant for people who die. Life insurance is meant for people who live.” Who said this doesn't really matter, what matters is that there is an important lesson to learn from this. The basic tenet of life is to indemnify the survivors against financial loss. Keyman...
Fire insurance
Thesis - 27 pages - Finance
What insurance companies do is to bear risk in return for a fee called premium. Thus, insurance companies are risk bearers. They accept or underwrite the risk in return for an insurance premium. Accordingly, the term insurance may be defined as a co-operative mechanism to spread the loss caused...
Financial markets of India
Dissertation - 33 pages - Finance
Financial institutions, financial market and financial instruments are considered main components that are closely linked with each other, because financial institutions deals in financial instruments in the financial market. Financial transactions takes place in financial markets. Each and every...
Auditing a bank
Case study - 37 pages - Finance
Various people such as owners, shareholders, investors, creditors, lenders, government etc. uses the final account of a business concern for different purposes. All these users need to be sure that the final accounts prepared by the management are reliable. An auditor is an independent expert who...
Cash management services
Thesis - 19 pages - Finance
With the growing pressure on interest spread, banks are focusing their attention on the 'fee based' Services. The exponential growth in IT and Communications has helped banks in developing and delivering customer friendly products in the areas of Collections and Payments. As we are all...
Cash reserve ratio
Case study - 34 pages - Finance
This is the amount of money that the banks have to necessarily park with the Reserve Bank of India. The base of this is the total of the deposits that a bank has. The Reserve Bank of India pays the bank interest on the amount parked with it. Among the tools available to the RBI to influence and...
Bancassurance: An overview
Thesis - 28 pages - Finance
The purpose of distribution channel is to make the right quantity of the right product available at the right place and at the right time. Distribution is supposed to create time, place, and possession utility. A distribution channel is expected to perform the selling function of moving through...
Marine insurance
Dissertation - 33 pages - Finance
The beginning of the insurance business is traced to the city of London. It started with the marine business. Marine traders, who used to gather at Lloyd's coffee house in London, agreed to share losses to goods during transportation by ship. The first insurance policy was issued in England in...
All you wanted to know about insurance
Dissertation - 39 pages - Finance
Insurance, in law and economics, is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of potential financial loss. Insurance is defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a potential loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for a premium and duty of care. The rate of...
Motor vehicle insurance in India
Dissertation - 42 pages - Finance
There has been a sudden rise in the population of motor vehicles and motor accidents in the last few years. Much of these are attributable to increase in the number of vehicles. Every vehicle before being driven on roads has to be compulsorily insured. The motor insurance policy represents a...
Pricing futures
Case study - 61 pages - Finance
Stock index futures began trading on NSE on the 12th June 2000. Stock futures were launched on 9th November 2001. The volumes and open interest on this market has been steadily growing. Looking at the futures prices on NSE's market, have you ever felt the need to know whether the quoted prices...
