Yap already had a bank—the stone-money bank. For ages its culture had used huge stone wheels for currency. So large are they that no vault is needed to store and protect them.
After selling piggy banks for more than a year it suddenly dawned on me - why are they called piggy banks? What does a pig have to do with saving money? A pig would be the last animal you’d associate with saving! Why not bunny banks or doggy banks and for that matter, why an animal at all?! Additionally, piggy bank sounds like it was intended as a child’s item as how many adults would use a piggy bank for collecting change? Indian banking industry is passing through a phase of customers market. Since today, banks are adding innovative services to their customers. As the customers have more choices in choosing their banks, competition has been established within the banks operating in India. Now, the banking sector has taken a lead role in promoting financial inclusion.
The banking world has been turned upside-down during the past few months. When looking for reliable commercial loan sources, it is now increasingly important for small business owners to recognize the differences between "good banks" and "bad banks". Because this will not be an easy process for most commercial borrowers, the use of business finance consulting can be helpful.
It was one which will the largest decline. The winner is the Riksbank, the Swedish central bank, which has the highest rate cuts made by a Western central bank during the current crisis. Indeed, it has reduced its key rate, the Repo, by 175 basis points, thereby establishing the 2%. Although officials of the Riksbank suggested that the rate should remain unchanged during the next year, many economists, including Alexis Garatti Natixis, Repo predict a 1% end 2009.
Identifying and avoiding dead banks walking and zombie banks in business finance funding is increasingly important for all commercial borrowers. These terms are used to describe banks which have effectively already gone broke. By dealing with a so-called zombie bank, business owners might be wasting their time as well as endangering the future financial health of their business investment.
Risk management is the analysis of risk coupled with the implementation of quality risk controls. Risk management is needed for banks and financial institutions, mainly because it insures a margin of safety that guarantees a levered financial firm's solvency.The unpredictability and inherent risks associated with the financial markets makes it...
What happens when central banks can't control an economic slowdown using conventional methods?Since the start of the economic crisis in 2007, more and more people have become familiar with economic terms. Once used only by market participants, now the average Joe knows words like; economic growth, inflation, stimulus plans. Despite China’s constraints on its banking and financial industry, foreign banks reported robust profits from its business coming from the mainland; providing a respite from troubled U.S. markets.




