The Internet has fundamentally changed the banking industry in South Africa by giving people more immediate control over the management of their finances. This research investigated whether a gap exists between customer expectations of Internet Banking and the satisfaction of these expectations in the virtual environment by South African banking institutions. The research was operationalized by...

I am particularly glad to introduce the discussions of this panel today. Establishing the banking union constitutes a key step to reinforce the European integration and marks a major milestone in European history. The National Bank of Belgium strongly supports the banking union and its single supervisory mechanism which, if well implemented, will lead to a sound and robust supervisory model and...

development of financial markets as an important factor in the economic growth process always has been of interest to economists. the purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between regional financial development and economic growth. this study uses provincial annual data over the period 2000-2011 by using panel data technique. the panel co integration techniques have been used to te...

We examine the impact of cross-prefectural differences in financial integration on the regional spread of Japan’s Great Recession in the early 1990s. In prefectures with many small manufacturing firms, post-1990 growth was significantly lower if low levels of banking integration with the rest of the country before 1990 existed. The least financially integrated and most credit-dependent prefectu...