Case Study: Union Bank Of Colombo PLC)

Commonwealth Bank, known as CommBank is Australia’s leading and most trustworthy bank. CommBank is Australia’s first and leading provider of integrated financial services which included retail, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance, investment and broking services. Commbank is one of the most recognised banks in the financial industry. The Commonwealth Bank is an Australian multinational with businesses around New Zealand, Asia, United States, United Kingdom and Fiji.

Evaluate RBC strategy and organizational structure. Is RBC well equipped to compete with niche operators such as internet-only banks with focused product offerings?

Kotak Mahindra Bank ltd. is an Indian bank and financial service firm which was established in 1985. Earlier, it was known as Kotak Mahindra Finance Limited, a NBFC(non-banking financial company). In feburary 2003, the Reserve bank of India gave license to Kotak Mahindra Finance ltd. to carry our baking business in the country and in the history of Indian Banking, it is the first company that is being converted into bank. As so September 2014, the bank has consolidated balance sheet of US $3.3 billion and has over 500 branches and more than 1000 ATM’s across the country.

The reality of systemic risk made the task of regulating the financial system increasingly complicated, as the crises aren’t contained in one country or market. The extreme inter-dependence between the different agents is the main reason why we need regulation today, as some misconducts can cause a domino effect, affecting markets globally. The structure of the banking system in itself explains this process. In the finance industry, banks borrow money from other banks. If one bank fails, the one who lent the funds in the first place might also follow the same path, creating panic in the markets. The government’s first prerogative is to protect its citizens from these

First, high capital requirements could enable institutions to be more flexible facing financial stress and crises. Second, the CFPB strengthens the oversight responsibilities, lessens the regulatory infrastructure risky gaps, and improves the protection for consumers. Third, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) single-point-of-entry strategy installs standard procedures to wind down failed financial institutions,

Financial crisis has been prevalent since time immemorial. The world’s economies have been continually hit by the same and the 2008 financial crisis is definitely not the last appearance. The financial sector involves complexity and contains one of the world’s largest players and has continually developed into large conglomerates sometimes too big to control. These financial organizations have developed products that have become hard to regulate and impose control on which has often led to their collapse. Major world governments and financial institutions, mostly the central banks have the responsibility to make sure that these organizations are operating both ethically and legally and within the bounds of the law. This is the institution of supervisory and regulatory roles to monitor them.

When determining the bank’s future over the next five years, one must analyze what the bank needs to focus on in order to achieve the individual goals. The bank’s mission is to work towards offering its customers the one-stop financial shop concept delivered with an unexpected, unsurpassed level of customer service. In order to achieve this mission, FirstBank must be able to continue to strive to be better and never settle.

With the outstanding performance through the years of UOB, its mission statement has been realistic and it certainly have helped the company to stay on track and to achieve its vision of being a premier bank, as it has eventually became the top leading bank Asia and the Asia Pacific region. The mission has greatly equipped the bank with the right attitude and goals to help achieve its vision. By being committed to providing quality products and excellent customer service, it paved the way for great excellence which is a key factor to become an outstanding bank in comparison with the other competitors.

Century National Bank has offices in several cities in the Midwest and the southeastern part of the United States. Mr. Dan Selig, president and CEO, would like to know the characteristics of his checking account customer. To better understand the customers, Mr. Selig asked Ms. Wendy Lamberg, director of planning, to select a sample of customers and prepare a report. To begin, she has appointed a team from her staff and the team has selected a random sample of 60 customers. All the information gathered is tabulated in the table below:

Around 2008, the global financial system was suffered a destructive crisis which especially destroyed the western financial world heavily. To prevent such crisis in the future, discussions and debates were being heated. Solutions and measures were proposed by many countries’ regulators. Factors that several reasons underlie the financial crisis have been widely blamed, for

Descriptive survey type of research was used because this method or type of research is commonly conducted to collect detail description of existing phenomena with the intent of' employing data to justify current conditions and whenever possible to draw valid general conclusions from the facts discovered (Koul, 2006). As it fits to the purpose of the study, this research design was used to assess the quality of service delivery by asking customers about their expectations with regard to the bank's service and their perception on the actual service delivered by the bank and finally to compare and contrast the two for the sake of reaching up on discrepancies, if any.

Since the year 2008, many countries had been suffered from a financial crisis or Hamburger crisis, because of the mistaken policy, complex financial system etc. which cause a severe shock to the financial system globally. From this impact, the federal government of United State of America (USA) and other countries had injected a large fund for retrieving this situation significantly. Therefore, it can be explained that understanding the main causes of the financial issue can assist each country to clarify problems. The purpose of this essay is to elucidate regulatory failure in 3 major types: first, misguided intervention in the U.S. second, failure of financial risk management, next, the lack of transparency regulation in private and

The history of First Bank of Nigeria Plc dated back to 1894 when it was founded and incorporated as a limited liability company on 31st March 1894 under the corporate name of the bank of British West Africa (BBWA). At that time, it operation was in Lagos but had its head office in Liverpool. The bank worked closely with the colonial government to the extent of performing the traditional functions of a Central Bank in the West Africa sub-region.

The goal of financial regulation is to increase efficiency in the market, as well as enhance the market 's ability to absorb shock caused by financial instability. There are many reasons for financial instability, but it can be narrowed down to

UBS and Sberbank are quite different in the integration of societal and financial performance for the benefit of clients, communities and banks themselves due to the different types of societal issues in their countries. Let’s have a closer look at “What banks do? Why they do? How they support their clients?”