During the past five years, Islamic banking has enjoyed a renaissance, hailed as the biggest phenomenon in banking in the last century. Now, the party is over. Rising competition, social unrest coupled with the effects of global financial crisis are being felt in domestic markets resulting in a slow down in the growth rate of…
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The nature of how consumers are using credit is changing at such fast a rate; that bankers cannot always invent new products fast enough to match it. Innovations such as “interest only mortgages”, “intelligent financing”, and “low-interest for the life of a balance credit cards”, are the results of banks reactively responding to customer demand,…
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Today’s financial services institutions face the ongoing challenges of risk management and payment fraud in a rapidly changing global-technological environment. Are these merely symptoms of a looming future problem? Joe DiVanna discusses the future of payment systems and the birth of 3-dimensional operational risk. This lecture examines fraud and risks from several perspectives: how do…
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All banks have some form of strategy; what separates great performing banks from their less successful counterparts is how they execute the implementation of their strategic efforts and how they measure their performance. This 1 or 2-day programme will examine the fundamentals of developing a banking strategy, how different approaches to implementation deliver vastly dissimilar…
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