The banking industry is subject to a wave of consolidation taking the form of mergers but also the formation of strategic partnerships. In this chapter, we present how such a partnership can be assessed using the e3value ontology. This ontology allows us to model networks of enterprises and partnerships, exchanging things of economic with each other. To adequately model strategic partnerships, ...

This paper takes an explorative search into merger activity in the Nigerian banking industry and its impact in the sustenance of shareholder value via sound corporate governance structure. An attempt is made to draw lessons from United States experience in merger activity in the Nigerian banking industry which has as at the time of study recorded twenty -five (25) successful mergers arising fro...

Measuring the dynamic relationship between banking and industries with systemic importance has attracted much attention after the recent financial crisis. This paper examines the dynamic conditional correlations and volatility spillover using three popular multivariate GARCH models in the twelve-year period (from the beginning of 2005 to the beginning of 2016) among the fourteen systemically im...

services require high involvement of consumer in consumption process. when consumers experience a service, their evaluation of service quality will change. the propose of current study is to provide a conceptual model for measuring hardware and software quality of banking services in the context of iran’s banking industry. current study is descriptive-applicable one in which has been done by a ...

This paper provides an overview of big data technologies and best practices from the standpoint of business intelligence (BI) applications in the banking industry. The authors discussed current challenges in banking industry that could be addressed by using big data technologies. Based on their research, they provided a list of big data tools and technologies in terms of an ecosystem that are s...

As a result of the full opening up in China’s banking industry in 2006, foreign banks have gained more power in the market. On the one hand, it exerts a lot of pressure on domestic banks; on the other hand, it becomes a significant challenge for China’s financial security. As a country opening up much earlier than China, United States may offer some ideas on how to avoid mistakes in the opening...

Nowadays, new technologies have changed the methods of serving customers in many service organizations. Service in the banking industry has been influenced by International Communication Technology (ICT) developments in essential ways. Nowadays the importance of websites and their unique features in provision of services to customers is increasing. However, traditional methods of banking with d...

The political and economic environment during the 80’s coupled with the lacking of reliable network backbone and the inefficient and ineffective telecommunication infrastructure in the 90’s had resulted in banks in China adopting de-centralized approach in their computerization programs. China officially became a member of WTO in November 2001, and by the beginning of 2007, Renminbi (China’s cu...

The health industry has acquired a reputation as lagging in the use of IT. This reputation is usually based upon the relatively narrow measure of comparative IT expenditure, often examined as a proportion of total revenue. This study has been undertaken to assess health's use of IT using a broader frame of reference. The health industry was compared to the banking industry, on the basis that th...

This study, grounded on the Conservation of Resource (COR) theory, examines the role of perceived social support sources and the moderating impact of work-life policy on work-life balance (WLB) among female employees in the context of the Bangladeshi banking industry. Data were collected from 559 female employees from 39 commercial banks located in Dhaka and Chattogram through a questionnaire s...