The research investigates the determinants of private banks profitability in Egypt. The determinants are bank specific (liquidity, capital adequacy, bank size, asset structure, credit risk, and non-performing loans), industry-specific (industry concentration and banking industry development),...

Motivated by the coexistence of retail and wholesale banks with distinct risk profiles under uniform capital regulation, and by the lack of quantitative evidence on whether differentiated capital requirements can reduce bank runs and interbank frictions in low-income monetary unions, this paper...

Major findings of the study indicate that performance appraisal is critical for employee motivation and employees perceived performance appraisal as a fair procedure, which increased their motivation and retention. Compensation and reward, and feedback are also perceived positively by the...

In this paper, we shed light on the narrative that listing contributes to risk-taking by examining the risk characteristics of listed BHCs, small enough to be private, against a sample of comparable private BHCs large enough to be listed over the 1990 to 2019 period. We measure our proxies for...

This study examines the understanding of banking governance among the sample participants and its effectiveness in achieving significant objectives. The research methodology employed in this study adopts a descriptive and analytical approach, aiming to comprehensively examine the multifaceted...

This paper investigates optimal decisions for private banking development in China under two innovative organizational structures-the big retail mode (BRM) and the independent development mode (IDM). Under the BRM, the retail and private banking divisions form a cooperative relationship wherein...

Research background: Financial exclusion is a very important phenomenon due to its socio-economic nature. It is linked to social exclusion and means limited access to financial services and products provided, among others, by cooperative banks. In the paper, the author presents the reasons for...

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, integrating blockchain technology into retail banking has emerged as a pivotal strategy for operational efficiency and competitive differentiation. This study employs the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) methodology to explore...

This paper explores how traditional banks perceive digital-only banks and the potential impact of digital-only banks on the retail segment of the banking sector. To obtain the main goal, we conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with managers and directors representing different...

This paper analyzes the public use of Retail Central Bank Digital Currency (rCBDC) during a pilot program in Thailand. For the first time, it utilizes detailed transactional data, including demographic information of users from a real-world rCBDC pilot. The study empirically examines the...

At the request of the Bank of Namibia (BoN), an IMF mission team conducted a technical assistance (TA) from January 15 to February 1, 2024. The mission assisted the authorities in establishing the groundwork for a feasibility study of a retail central bank digital currency (rCBDC) and drafting a...

In several countries, digital financial advisory services, particularly those supported by robo-advisors, are becoming increasingly popular in retail banking. These tools assist users with financial decisions such as risk assessment, portfolio selection, and rebalancing-all at a reduced cost....

Monetary authorities globally have studied central bank digital currency (CBDC) for wholesale and retail applications since the 1990s. Besides countering private cryptocurrencies' influence, central banks have also explored other benefits of CBDC, such as improving their financial oversight,...

This study investigates the influence of banking service quality and customer trust on customer retention behavior, considering the mediating role of customer satisfaction and the moderating role of FinTech. In light of the growing digitalization in the banking sector, the study aims to...

This study aims to explore how customer satisfaction (CS) serves as a mediator in the connections between service quality (SQ), efficiency and reliability (EAR), customer retention (CR) and customer loyalty (CL) within the E-Banking industry in Bangladesh. The empirical experiment employed a...

How should the international anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) standards be applied in a retail CBDC (rCBDC) setting? This chapter identifies the main categories and characteristics of rCBDCs that may have financial integrity implications and analyzes the...

This article proposes and tests a conceptual model examining the antecedents of customer satisfaction and loyalty in the Danish banking sector. Given the changing landscape, the importance of personnel contact, the bank's website, and the bank's ethics and reputation are of particular interest....

We use a panel of ten euro area member states to examine the link between macro/fiscal risk and private bank deposits relative to Germany. Our main findings are summarised as follows: First, the relationship between relative deposits and macro/fiscal risk factors is not stable over time. Second,...

This study investigates whether Syrian private banks integrate issues related to environmental sustainability in their credit risk assessment of borrowers. We distribute questionnaires to credit officers and internal and external auditors of both conventional and Islamic Syrian private banks....

Inductive Reasoning is an act of making generalized conclusions when specific scenarios are not available. It consists of making broad generalizations based on specific observations. Pre-research investigations reveal many fresh young graduates at entry level job seekers in Indian private...

This study aims to clarify the influences of state banks on the private banks for Turkey after the second world war. The literature on state banks emphasizes the adverse impact of state, namely the crowding-out effect. On the other hand, state-owned banks arose as a result of development policy...

Italian Abstract: L’impiego di sistemi di intelligenza artificiale (IA) nell’intermediazione mobi-liare è oggetto di un intenso dibattito istituzionale volto ad analizzarne opportunità e rischi per investitori e operatori di mercato. Nel presente lavoro, dopo aver delineato le principali...

The paper is fictional account of how big tech might disrupt the wealth management industry. Wealth management’s existing investment framework was originally developed half a century ago for pension funds.This pension fund “operating system” (PF OS) works well for “agents” but not...

We set up a general equilibrium model of Chinese wealth management products (WMPs), which are deeply rooted in traditional Chinese commercial banks. According to this model, we proposed two hypotheses, namely, the regulatory arbitrage and information asymmetry hypotheses. We tested the...

This paper studies the impact of investor composition on the sovereign debt market and the implied funding costs to borrowers. We construct an aggregate data set of sovereign debt holdings by foreign and domestic bank, non-bank private, and official investors for 95 countries over twenty years....

This paper studies the impact of investor composition on the sovereign debt market. We construct an aggregate data set of sovereign debt holdings by foreign and domestic bank, non-bank private, and official investors for 95 countries over twenty years. We find that private non-bank investors...