The financial turmoil that engulfed the US during 2007-09 began in the mortgage lending markets. Indicators of the emerging problems came in early 2007 when, first, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (commonly known as Freddie Mac or Freddie) announced it would no longer purchase high-risk mortgages and, second, New Century Financial Corporation – a […]
During the last decade, banking industry has become highly competitive, resulting in many banks to use aggressive strategies in order to survive or maintain their respective share in the market. This tendency of these financial institutions to become more aggressive when confronted with competitive pressures has led many banks to fail. Banking industry has gone […]
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Get help with your assignmentWith a rapidly altering world economic system, the long-established virtues and stringent laws of Shariah based Islamic Finance have recently adopted a promising reputation. Despite global attention on Middle East unrest and public divides in opinions related to Islamic practice, a growing trend towards favoring the adoption of IF policies. Since its formal establishment in […]
Return on capital EmployedA (ROCE) is a financial measure that measures the performance of a company as to how it generates cash flow relative to the capital it has invested in its business. It is defined asA net operating profit less adjusted taxesA divided byA invested capitalA and is usually expressed as aA percentage. When the return on capital is greater […]
This report is going to evaluate ITV PLC strategically using the SWOT analytical framework. This will need to highlight and evaluate the major strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing the company at the moment with appropriate key recommendation(s) as to future policy objectives. Contents Terms of reference: This report is going to be prioritised on […]
Motivation and structure of the transaction. In early 1999, Seagate was planning on major restructuring proposal with the private equity firm, Silver Lake partners L.P. The plan implied a leveraged buyout of Seagate’s disk drive operations, followed by the tax free acquisition of Seagate’s remaining assets by VERITAS Software Corporation. The choice for this two […]
The UAE has achieved stable progress over the past three decades to emerge as a important global player in both theA political and the economic position The tremendously fast rate of economic growth until 2008 was due to the constant demandA for oil, in addition they a move their focus to a number of non-oil sectors. The […]
Islamic Finance is dealing in financial matters based on the Islamic Jurisprudence (Shariah), therefore it is important to understand what Islamic Jurisprudence (Shariah) is. The main sources of Islamic Jurisprudence are as follows: For Muslims, the first and foremost ruling for any matter, social, economical, and religious, comes from the Holy Quran followed by the […]
BRAC Bank is a scheduled commercial bank. It is established in Bangladesh as a public limited company. 4th July 2001 the bank started its journey in Bangladesh under the banking company act 1991. On May 20, 1999 the bank established as a bank which is limited by the share. Building a profitable and social responsible […]
2.0 Introduction Financial Institutions are very important in our society today. This institutions let individuals and firms to borrow money and pay back later in time. Financial Institutions are institutions that provide financial services for its clients and members it also acts as financial intermediaries of the capital market and debt markets. This institution is […]
An instrument of hybrid finance can be defined as a security which holds the combination of features of both equity and debt. Users can benefit from the positive factors of equities and debt instruments without incurring the disadvantages of them. However there are also risks that are associated with the use of hybrids. There are […]
The US Stores’ market performance is unsatisfied. The share price and P/E ratio of the firm have been dropping. The company intends to carry out a strategy to expand world-wide markets by acquiring a major UK retailer. Merger and acquisition is one of the approaches to achieve the corporate strategies, such as expanse the market […]
Abstract Credit works as blood life of any banking institute. This research is based mainly at investigating the impact of credit risk on banking stability, in banking sector lending behavior in Pakistan using data on commercial banks and macroeconomic instability from last decade. Our results under the Co-integration of variables and Correction Modeling framework show […]
FORWARD CONTRACTS: A forward contract agreement is effective under the consistent critical terms method if all the following criteria are met: 1. The forward contract is for the purchase or sale of the same quantity or notional amount and at the same time as the hedge able item. 2. Upon association with the hedge able […]
Subprime crisis, the turmoil on mortgage markets has claimed several causalities. Banks have transferred risks to special entities SIVs and SPVs. This practice has given the impression that the credit risk has been transferred from banks to investors. In traditional banking loans were kept in on bankA´s balance sheets. Now the complete process of originates […]
Having selected two stocks, LLOY.L and BARC.L, from the FTSE100 Index and downloaded the daily prices, spanning the period January 2008 – December 2010, it is now time to calculate the daily returns and the average returns. The daily returns are calculated by subtracting from the closing share price of the following day the closing […]
Investment analysis is very important as it establishes cash and other resources are invested in profitable projects and identify some risk which might arise from investment and measures to eliminate the risks. Getting the right choice of a project to invest is crucial, the management need to have the skills to make the right decision […]
Modern Islamic-finance is a rapidly increasing subsector of global finance markets. To appropriately comprehend it, we firstly understand the rules of trade and finance are part of religion on which Muslims demeanour their lives and order their finances and business. Even though no convincing data are yet on hand, a fact reflective of the industry’s […]
Lavipharm S.A was established in 1911 and is today a leading pharmaceuticals company with operations in Greece and major international markets such as the USA and France. The Company is mainly a commercial distributor not only of drugs but also of cosmetics. Lavipharm S.A offers products derived from own research as well as high-level services […]
The purpose of this section is to describe the methodologies used to collect data and to carry out the quantitative and qualitative analyses. Primary and secondary data will be collected for the project. Primary data will be the main sources of this study because first-hand information is needed to investigate the research questions and achieve […]
One of the earliest stochastic models of the term structure was developed by Vasicek (1977). His model is based on the evolution of an unspecified short-term interest rate. Although the model is developed in a fairly general framework, it is most frequently applied in a more specific form that is presented here. The Vasicek model […]
Public Mutual Berhad (Public Mutual) is the largest private unit trust company in Malaysia and currently manages more than 70 funds with total NAV of more than RM35.2 billion for more than 2,300,000 accountholders. Incorporated in July 1975, Public Mutual began its operations in 1980 with the launch of the Public Savings Fund, and soon […]
The organization involved in microfinance should raise awareness in the community about microfinance and its utility through community meetings, print and electronic media.awareness should also be raised among govt. agencies and other stakeholders to create recognition of microfinance services by lobbying and advocacy. 6.1.2 Capacity Building The organization should train the front line staffs, who […]
Sensitivity analysis is used to determine how “sensitive” a model is to changes in the value of the parameters of the model and to changes in the structure of the model. Inthis paper, we focus on parameter sensitivity. Parameter sensitivity is usually performedas a series of tests in which the modeller sets different parameter values […]
Firstly we will define Investment as “commitment of money or capital to purchase financial instruments or other assets in order to gain profitable returns in form of interest, income, or appreciation of the value of the instrument” (Investment, 2010) and Risk “is an uncertain outcome or chance of an adverse outcome.” (Risk, 2010) In any […]
It is a theory which says that exchange rates between currencies are in stable position when their purchasing power is the similar in each of the two countries. This means that the exchange rate between two countries should equal the ratio of the two countries’ price level of a fixed level of goods and services. […]
The California Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) say that controller have closed Affinity Bank, citing not enough funds. The DFI has been strictly checking the bank because of its insufficient funds level. The DFI had planned it to boost its capital treasury to a safe and sound level but efforts by the bank to do […]
1.0 INTRODUCTION The quest by oil companies, stakeholders and investors in petroleum resources to reduce expenditures on oil and gas projects while at the same time increasing profit has led to increased technological development in forecasting oil well economics before investments are made on these projects. One of such developments was the introduction of a […]
The case of bankruptcy of Orange County in 1994 emphasize the importance of using duration and Value at risk (VAR) to assess portfolio risk and avoid future bankruptcy. Duration and VAR analysis provide deeper understanding about the underlying risk of the Orange County Investment Pool which was heavily leveraged and interest-pledged through reverse repurchase agreements […]
Derivatives are based on the behaviour of the basic assets. Derivatives have a lot of purposes. It can be used to minimise risk. For that it is need to allow the investor to hedge an investment or exposure, and hence it should be act as a function as a sort of insurance policy against adverse […]
