We propose the idea of a Quantum Cheque Scheme, a cryptographic protocol in which any legitimate client of a trusted bank can issue a cheque, that cannot be counterfeited or altered in anyway, and can be verified by a bank or any of its branches. We formally define a Quantum Cheque and present the first Unconditionally Secure Quantum Cheque Scheme and show it to be secure against any no-signali...

The technological challenges have led the bank sector to actively bet on technological innovation strategy including the provision of applications for mobile devices. However, the development of mobile tools has had a greater expression for customers than for commercial managers of banks. This paper aims to present an architecture that supports the desmaterialization of transactions at the coun...

In this paper, I examine the role of banks in propagating local economic shocks from one area to another through their network of bank branches, by exploiting a newly developed branch-level dataset. Specifically, I examine the change in the geographical distribution of small business loans within each bank network in response to: 1) increases in deposit growth due to presence in areas with new ...

Remote offices and branch offices, like retail stores, bank branches, or manufacturing plants, are crucial assets in company operations and have unique infrastructure challenges. The major challenge is that these locations are geographically distributed, with few or no IT staff members available. This situation can be exacerbated by often difficult operating conditions such as unreliable wide a...

Assurance region (AR) restrictions on multipliers in data envelopment analysis (DEA) have been applied extensively in many performance measurement settings. They facilitate the derivation of multiplier values that reflect the reality of the problem situation under study. In measuring the operational efficiency of bank branches, for example, output multipliers would generally represent unit proc...

Due to its role in the identification of inefficient branches and deciding the consistency of their activities, evaluating the performance of a bankchr('39')s branches is one of the most important decisions in the field of development and regulation of branch network. In this paper, the satisfactory functions based on game theory strategies have been utilized in order to evaluate the individual...

The topography and neuronal structure of the dorsal nucleus of the lateral geniculate body (GLd) of the common shrew and the bank vole are similar. The lateral geniculate body of both the species examined has a homogeneous structure and no observable cytoarchitectonic lamination. On the basis of the shape of the dendritic arbours as well as the pattern of dendritic arborisations the following t...

A new approach or model to the dynamic DEA, referred to as the adjusted dynamic DEA, is proposed in this study. Adjusted dynamic DEA optimizes the production activity of DMUs by introducing adjustment variables to modify the interconnecting activities between consecutive terms, solving conflicts that arise between terms and between management and shareholders. The non-oriented SBM model is used...

The bank-branch restructuring problem seeks to locate bank-branches, maintaining or closing existing branches, in order to provide the service required by its clients, at minimum total cost. This problem has not been the subject of much study, nonetheless it is a common problem that banks are faced with from time to time. We address this nonlinear problem, since economies of scale exist, by for...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of cases suggestive of repetitive strain injury/work-related musculoskeletal disorders (RSI/WRMSD), three decades after restructuring of banking. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study on 356 employees in 27 bank branches of public and private banks in Porto Alegre, Southern Brazil, between April and August 2009. After crude statistical analysis, adjustm...