The sudden break of the 2008 financial crisis is the first world level crisis of financial markets. A host of countries have suffered from this disaster. Throughout the world, many large banks have seen most of their equity destroyed by the crisis that started in the U.S. subprime sector in 2007 and governments have had […]
Today’s global financial crisis has left many wondering where the faults actually lie. Indeed, there are many contributing factors that can be highlighted. However, in a more positive approach, it is argued that Sharia banking covers principle areas that are in almost complete opposition to conventional banking. For example, institutions do not pay interest, and […]
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Get help with your assignmentRisks are inherent in banking business and they cannot be avoided. To absorb losses associated with these risks, the minimum amount of capital required to be kept by the bank should be assessed. Banking risks like credit risk, market risk and operational risk are taken into account while determining minimum capital requirement. Capital reduces the […]
The recent global crisis had multiple causes: The general cause appears to be a rapid growth of the level of debt (especially in the case of households), accompanied by sharp increases in real estate prices. However, the complexity of the crisis was increased by the existance of individual reasons in each country. The article aims […]
Metallgesellschaft Corporation is one of the subsidiaries of Metallgesellschaft A.G. , a German Conglomerate which largely owned by institutional investors and banks such as Deutsche Bank AG, the Dresdner Bank AG, Daimler-Benz, Allianz and the Kuwait Investment Authority. In 1993, Metallgesellschaft Refining and Marketing known as MGRM which is one of the Metallgesellschaft’s trading subsidiary, […]
The Companys service is to persistently deliver on its promise of Total Customer Delight to its clients. Scicoms main product offering is scicomsourcing, comprising the four distinct modules of scicompartner, scicomacademy, scicomconsulting and scicommarketing Scicom is a global CRM Consulting, Technology services, Education and Outsourcing Company.A With province skill, and full capabilities across all industries and […]
The Government of India has taken a number of measures to encourage foreign investment into India, generally, with a particular focus on the export of goods and services out of India. These measures include the introduction in 2005 of a SEZ regime under which specified land is deemed to be “foreign territory” for the purposes […]
The objective of this paper is to try and understand the Bank of Queensland (BOQ) operations in Australia and its successes or failures in the last 5 years as it devises various strategies to take an even bigger slice in the banking industry in Australia. We shall critically analyze each strategy and understand how it […]
The concept of cost of capital has been used in capital budgeting as the discounted rate or the minimum required rate of return. The cost of capital is the minimum required rate of return; a project must earn in order to cover the cost of raising funds being used by the firm in financing of […]
I often hear finance managers say an investment related proverb that goes like this; “be risk diverse, not risk adverse”. An inquisitive, or even not so inquisitive mind may wonder “what does this concept really mean?” and “why is it so important when investing?” This paper seeks to provide answers to the querying mind and […]
British Petroleum is one of the five major energy companies in the world engaged in the business of oil and natural gas exploration and marketing as well as development of renewable energy devices across 80 countries of the world. The company with around 80300 staff members on its payroll in 2009 made an annual turn […]
The Chicago Federal Reserve Bank is established as a Reserves Banks out of 12 Federal Reserve Banks in United State. Chicago Fed is established to serve a specific region of United State, to build up a sound banking system and a health economy of the country. It is being established to serve the Seventh Federal […]
INTRODUCTION The issue of the profitability of banks in the UK market has been the subject of controversy for sometime now. For the past twenty years there has been a substantial increase in the number of financial firms entering the banking sector in the UK. This has mainly been due to the fact that the […]
Kennedy and Muller, has explained that The analysis and interpretation of financial statements are an attempt to determine the significance and meaning of financial statements data so that the forecast may be made of the prospects for future earnings, ability to pay interest and debt maturines (both current and long term) and profitability and sound […]
The purpose of this research is to examine the potential business opportunities in Oman, especially in exporting telecommunication equipment into this country. Therefore, Oman’s macro-environmental factors such as Cultural Environment, Political and Legal Environment and Economic Environment will be discussed in term of international trade. Moreover, the research will summary the country’s current international trade […]
Dawood lawrencepur limited is the largest textile group in pakistan working since 1954 in the karachi city. Dawood lawrencepur are the manufacturer and exporter of various quality of yarn in cotton (combed & carded), polyester and polycotton from 7/s to 100/s. Dawood lawrencepur offers good quality and very competitive prices.A Dawood lawrencepur founded with a […]
The Asset-Liability Management is one of the most crucial functions of a bank in the highly competitive and complex business environment today. Asset-Liability Management is a co-ordinated management of a bank’s balance sheet to allow for different interest rate, liquidity and optionality shocks. Post Liberalization in 1991, deregulation of various banking operations, freeing of interest […]
The project involves understanding of Foreign Exchange and Currency Hedging related to Indian Economy. This basically will deal into studying various factors leading to currency movements both domestic as well as international. To understand the importance of Currency Hedging to corporates and business houses, advantages and various shortcomings that they face. The project aims to […]
Banks are type of Financial Institutions that facilitate the flow of funds and are the back bone of the economy. So banks act as financial intermediaries to interact the deficient units with surplus units and in this the banks bear certain risks. One of the risks is the credit risk or default risk. A bank […]
NEXT Plc This investor report will cover all key areas such as cash generation, income, management of assets, quality of investment made, performance in the relative sector and dividend policy and cost of capital. On the basis of current and past performance of the company and data provided in different annual sheets and news of […]
To estimate empirically the Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) model we focus our attention to the UK’s stock exchange market. Our study employs monthly time series data spanning the period 2000:9 to 2010:9 (121 observations). The sample of our analysis is dictated solely by the demands of the coursework. The variables involved are: the closing share […]
The Company I’ve chosen for the dissertation deals with projects in providing offshore solutions and infrastructure to the Oil & Gas extraction companies. As the projects are high investment oriented and needs millions and billions of dollars and other foreign currencies as the firm deals with the countries like Italy, Germany, France, UK and Japan […]
Quantitative finance started in the U.S. in the 1930s as some astute investors began using mathematical formulas to price stocks and bonds. Harry Markowitz’s 1952 Ph.D. thesis “Portfolio Selection” was one of the first papers to formally adapt mathematical concepts to finance. Markowitz formalized a notion of mean return and covariances for common stocks which […]
In an economy, the financial structure is designed promote economic efficiency. One of the main requirements for a healthy economy is an efficient financial system that channel funds from savers to investors.” The financial structure of a country includes a complex structure of financial system including many different financial institutions: banks, insurance companies, mutual funds, […]
Sarbanes-Oxley Act An audit is an examination and verification of a company’s financial and accounting records. It also supports documents by a professional, such as certified public accountant. Until the 90’s, the audits did not focused on controls like they do today. Because of the early 21st century scandals of Enron Corp, WorldCom Group Inc., […]
Corporate governance is concerned with the resolution of collective action problems among dispersed investors and the reconciliation of conflicts of interest between various corporate shareholders. In this coursework we review the theoretical and research on the main mechanisms of corporate control, discuss the main legal and regulatory institutions and global standards. GENERAL INFORMATION ON CORPORATE […]
Question 1 Agency-Relationship is a relationship in which one person has legal authority to act on behalf of another. Agent has a legal and ethical responsibility to make decision that furthers the interests of the shareholders. When the interests of the agents and shareholders conflicts each other, an agency problem will be appeared. There are […]
In this chapter the author has decided to discuss on ownership issues regarding firms and football clubs by presenting the information obtained by previous researches. The author has also presented information on the difference between foreign ownership and domestic ownership that have brought controversies to companies. 2.1 Definition of ownership, foreign ownership and its importance […]
Amount of Capital Raised On May 18th, 2012 Facebook had its initial public offering. The company offered 421,233,615 shares priced at $38.00. This enabled Facebook to raise about $16 billion on the first day of IPO. The company was valued at about $104 billion at its listing. The approximately $16 billion capital raised was split […]
INTRODUCTION Principal-Agent Relationships for Investment Purposes Principal-Agent relationships occur in many forms in business. Understanding these relationships is crucial for investors in order to make better investment decision. Theory of Principal-Agent Relationships The relationships between and among multiple stakeholders is complicated and provides many opportunities for one party to gain at the expense of another […]
