the use of ovarian stimulation for infertility treatment is associated with side effects of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (ohss) and potential cancer risk. this is also true in high risk women such as those polycystic with ovary (pco) and polycystic ovarian syndrome (pcos). in vitro maturation (ivm) of oocytes was primarily developed to make ivf safe for women with pco and at high risk of o...

Over the last three decades the role of banking in the process of financial intermediation has been undergoing a profound transformation, owing to changes in the global financial system. India’s banking system has seen some major financial innovations in the past decade as well as steps to promote financial inclusion, schemes that aim to take banking services to yet-to-be-banked areas. The vari...

Launching in Romania the banking products and services with long-distance access was based on image motives for the Romanian banks, domestic institutions or foreign banks branches. In this way, banks wanted to be innovative and they didn’t address necessarily to their clients’ needs. Once the long-distance payment instruments diversified and once the clients became aware of the benefits of such...

BACKGROUND Infertility is an undesirable side effect and gonadal tissue banking is advocated in young cancer patients who are unable to preserve embryos or gametes prior to oncotherapy to achieve biological parenthood later on. Banking gonadal tissue is challenging and protocols to mature gametes in vitro are not yet clinically established. Transplanting ovarian cortical tissue at hetero-or ort...

The article investigates the Swedish retail banks’ application of price bundling in order to attract new customers, students. This is done through a customer survey about students’ preferences concerning retail banking services, their price sensitiveness and banking behaviour. The conjoint analysis results showed that the students had relatively heterogeneous preferences, and four distinguishin...

The invention of mobile phones makes the human life easier. The purpose of this study is to identify security risks in mobile banking and to provide an authentication method for mobile banking transaction by using bio-metric mechanism. Current mobile banking authentication is challenging and identified as a major security risk. Literature review shows that customer distrusts mobile banking due ...

Advances in electronic banking technology have created novel ways of handling daily banking affairs, especially via the online banking channel. The acceptance of online banking services has been rapid in many parts of the world. In the leading e-banking countries the number of ebanking contracts has exceeded 50 percent. This study investigates into online banking acceptance in the light of the ...

Branchless banking is making transaction without visiting a formal banking system. It includes; internet, SMS banking, mobile banking, ATM’s, POS and EFTPOS. Mobile banking has become the future of formal banking system. Hawala is an informal, traditional system for financial transactions in which no money actually enters in bank; all transactions are based on trust among the parties. In Pakist...

Human behavior in banking and financial systems is in part made up of a complex mix of political, social and cultural factors. These factors are reflected in expert opinion based political risk scores. Market inefficiency is largely a result of anomalies in human behavior causing information asymmetries. A basic systemic market model is re-specified into a model for international banking system...

The purpose of this paper is to determine those factors that influence the adoption of internet banking services in Tunisia. A theoretical model is provided that conceptualizes and links different factors influencing the adoption of internet banking. A total of 253 respondents in Tunisia were sampled for responding: 95 were internet bank users, 158 were internet bank non users. Factor analyses ...