scholarly journals The Application of Corporate Governance Principles in the Banking Sector in Sri Lanka – An Overview

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
W. Indira Nanayakkara
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Banking Industry ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
The World ◽  
Safety And Stability

<p>All economies in the world are propelled by banks and the banking industry. Since the end of the war, Sri Lanka’s development has been accelerated and banks play a prominent role in the economy as they finance growth and development. Corporate Governance (CG) is seen as a particularly important regime for banks, due to their engagement with public funds, the public’s confidence and trust is of paramount importance to a bank’s stability. It is crucial that laws and regulations provide a versatile framework for good governance of the banking sector. This study critically examined the state of CG development and its underlying implications in the banking sector. Primarily, the relevant provisions of the Companies Act, Banking Act and the Monetary Law in Sri Lanka were evaluated, in addition to the other relevant laws, in order to ascertain whether they provide an adequate framework to ensure proper CG of banks. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has improved its capacity over the years to supervise, enforce and maintain financial stability. It ensures the safety and stability of banks at all times and has taken steps to implement risk management, BASEL II, for tight CG of banking. A mandatory code of CG has been issued by the CBSL, requiring all banks to fully comply with the rules on or before the 31<sup>st</sup> of January 2009. This study also explores the scope, extent, impact and the effectiveness of the supervisory and regulatory role of the CBSL and identifies the challenges faced by it when addressing the CG issues in the banking industry.</p>

scholarly journals The Role of Islamic Law in Convergence to Western Corporate Governance Features in Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-103
Author(s):  
Dr. Imtiaz Ahmed Khan
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Governance Mechanism ◽  
The World ◽  
Corporate Governance Mechanism ◽  
Recent Financial Crisis

This article examines the role of Islamic Law in convergence to western corporate governance features in Pakistan. The recent financial crisis in the world highlighted the importance of good corporate governance features. This phenomenon highlighted the possibility of adopting an alternative to conventional financial system in Pakistan. Islamic finance has shown its presence in the wake of financial crisis in the world. Therefore, this articles analyses, in comparative perspective, the Islamic financial system viz a viz conventional financial system. It further analyses the possibility of convergence of corporate governance mechanism, which is key for good governance in any financial system, in Pakistan. It concludes that Islamic Financial System may be adopted as alternative financial system as well as corporate governance mechanism may be converged to western corporate governance features in Pakistan. However, while doing so Islamic norms may act as a litmus test which may not be as problematic as it appears at first sight.

The Role of Music and Allied Arts in Public Writings on Cultural Diversity: “People of Sri Lanka”

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 93-100
Author(s):  
Gisa Jähnichen
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Culturally Different ◽  
The World ◽  
Official Languages ◽  
The Way

The Sri Lankan Ministry of National Coexistence, Dialogue, and Official Languages published the work “People of Sri Lanka” in 2017. In this comprehensive publication, 21 invited Sri Lankan scholars introduced 19 different people’s groups to public readers in English, mainly targeted at a growing number of foreign visitors in need of understanding the cultural diversity Sri Lanka has to offer. This paper will observe the presentation of these different groups of people, the role music and allied arts play in this context. Considering the non-scholarly design of the publication, a discussion of the role of music and allied arts has to be supplemented through additional analyses based on sources mentioned by the 21 participating scholars and their fragmented application of available knowledge. In result, this paper might help improve the way facts about groups of people, the way of grouping people, and the way of presenting these groupings are displayed to the world beyond South Asia. This fieldwork and literature guided investigation should also lead to suggestions for ethical principles in teaching and presenting of culturally different music practices within Sri Lanka, thus adding an example for other case studies.

scholarly journals Exploring the Role of Islamic Fintech in Combating the Aftershocks of COVID-19: The Pen Social Innovation of the Islamic Financial System

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Mustafa Raza Rabbani ◽  
Abu Bashar ◽  
Nishad Nawaz ◽  
Sitara Karim ◽  
Mahmood Asad Mohd. Ali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Real Economy ◽  
Business Context ◽  
The World

The purpose of the current study is to investigate the role of the Islamic financial system in recovery post-COVID-19 and the way Fintech can be utilized to combat the economic reverberations created by COVID-19. The global financial crisis of 2008 has established the credentials of the Islamic financial system as a sustainable financial system which can save the long run interests of the average citizens around the world while adding value to the real economy. The basic ethical tenets available in the Islamic financial system make it more suited and readymade to fight the economic aftershocks of a pandemic like COVID-19. The basic principles of ethical Islamic finance have solid connections to financial stability and corporate social responsibility within the wide-reaching business context. With the emergence of Financial technology (Fintech) it has provided a missing impetus to the Islamic financial system to compete on equal ground with its conventional counterpart and prove its mettle. The study uses discourse analysis along with the content analysis to extract content and draw a conclusion. The findings of the study indicate that COVID-19 pandemic has provided the opportunity for the social and open innovation to grow and finance world have turned to open innovation to provide a speedy, timely, reliable, and sustainable solution to the world. The findings of the study provide significant implications for governments and policy makers in efficient application of Fintech and innovative Islamic financial services to fight the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Is internal and external mechanism of governance enriching the performance of the banking sector of Pakistan?

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 629-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sundas Sohail ◽  
Farhat Rasul ◽  
Ummara Fatima
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Random Effect ◽  
Random Effect Model ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Board Structure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore how governance mechanisms (internal and external) enhance the performance of the return on asset (ROA), return on equity (ROE), earning per share (EPS) and dividend payout ratios (DP) of the banks of Pakistan. The study incorporates not only the internal factors of governance (board size, out-ratio, annual general meeting, managerial ownership, institutional ownership, block holder stock ownership and financial transparency) but also the external factors (legal infrastructure and protection of minority shareholders, and the market for corporate control). Design/methodology/approach The sample size of the study consists of 30 banks (public, private and specialized) listed at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSE) for the period 2008-2014. The panel data techniques (fixed or random effect model) have been used for the empirical analysis after verification by Hausman (1978) test. Findings The results revealed that not only do the internal mechanisms of governance enhance the performance of the banking sector of Pakistan but external governance also plays a substantial role in enriching the performance. The findings conclude that for a good governance structure, both internal and external mechanisms are equally important, to accelerate the performance of the banking sector. Research limitations/implications Internal and external mechanisms of corporate governance can also be checked by adding some more variables (ownership i.e. foreign, female and family as internal and auditor as external), but they are not added in this work due to data unavailability. Practical implications The study contributes to the literature and could be useful for the policy makers who need to force banks to mandate codes of governance through which they can create an efficient board structure and augment the performance. The investments from different forms of ownership can be accelerated if they follow the codes properly. Social implications The study facilitates the bankers in incorporating sound codes of corporate governance to enhance the performance of the banks. Originality/value This work is unique as no one has explored the impact of external mechanism of governance on the performance of the banking sector of Pakistan.

Linking Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria do Rosário Cabrita ◽  
Virgílio Cruz-Machado ◽  
Florinda Matos
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Banking Industry ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Successful Management ◽  
Knowledge Resources ◽  
The World ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
The Relationship

The ability of an organization to effectively nurture, capture, leverage, and share its knowledge resources become the key that provides an enterprise with its strategic power advantage in the world. When an organization develops its ability to build, access and leverage its knowledge resources it is creating its knowledge advantage. In an era of knowledge economics, Knowledge Management (KM) and Intellectual Capital (IC) have emerged as major issues that managers must deal with, if the organizations want maintain their competitive advantage. The accumulation of IC and KM is closely related. The successful management of IC is linked to the efficiency of KM processes, which, in turn, implies that the successful implementation of KM ensures the growth and renewal of IC in an organization. There are relatively few discussions on the relationship between KM and IC, and even fewer studies on such relationship in the banking industry. For the banking sector, as one of the most knowledge-intensive industries, it is imperative to understand how to use techniques in KM to accumulate IC to cope with an increasingly changing environment. Based on previous studies, this article seeks to explore the links between IC and KM in Portuguese banks, by identifying the IC resources of importance and leveraging these resources through KM capability.

The Aerarium and its Officials Under the Empire

1964 ◽  
Vol 54 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 33-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fergus Millar
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Political Interpretation ◽  
Financial Administration ◽  
Political Character ◽  
Public Revenues

No analysis of the political character of the Empire can avoid the question of finance. The various sources of revenue of the Emperor and the res publica, the role of the private wealth of the Emperor, the nature of his control over public funds, the question of how and when various public revenues were taken by him—a satisfactory political interpretation of the early Empire must take account of all these.This article attempts merely to take a second preliminary step towards such an interpretation. Its aim is to set out as clearly as possible the evidence as to the nature of the Aerarium and the functions of its officials, and, above all, to avoid the anachronistic approach which our language itself so readily invites. Not all anachronistic views of the subject have had the beautiful obviousness of Ramsay's contribution: even to speak of the ‘world-wide financial administration’ of the Aerarium will prove to be misleading.

scholarly journals PENGARUH TATA KELOLA PERUSAHAAN TERHADAP PREDIKTABILITAS LABA BANK UMUM KONVENSIONAL DI INDONESIA SELAMA PANDEMI COVID 19 DENGAN GENDER SEBAGAI VARIABEL MODERATING

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sri Rahayu ◽  
Ken Sabardiman ◽  
Afrizal Afrizal
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Governance Mechanism ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Conventional Banks ◽  
Relationship Of

<pre><strong><em>ABSTRACT:</em></strong><em> This study expects to dissect and acquire observational proof of the concussion of corporate administration on benefit consistency at conventional banking company in Indonesia during the Covid 19 pandemic and the concussion of sexual orientation (gender) on the causality connection between corporate administration and benefit consistency. Corporate administration is advanced by the piece of the leading group of chiefs, the amount of the leading body of magistrates, institutional possession, administrative proprietorship and review panels, while sex is the rasio of ladies on the leading body of organizations. Conventional commercial banks that recorded in Indonesia Stock Exchange are 43 banks, comprise of this investigation populace. Total sample</em><em>to</em><em>s are 33 conventional banks with purposive sampling as a sampling method. Moderated Regression Analysis is utilized as information investigation procedure. The outcomes acquired in this study showed that the amount of the leading body of magistrates, institutional possession, administrative proprietorship demonstrated to altogether influence benefit consistency. Sexual orientation (gender) altogether supports the concussion of administrative possession on benefit consistency. </em><em>This research shows that it is </em><em>compulsory </em><em>to implement a good governance mechanism, the problems that will occur can be recognized early by the bank and the follow-up is done more quickly, </em><em>in order</em><em> that the bank can survive in a state of crisis.</em><em> </em><em>Affirmation of the </em><em>concussion</em><em> and role of </em><em>ladies</em><em> on the </em><em>council</em><em> can influence the causal relationship of corporate governance on earnings predictability.</em></pre><pre><em><br /></em></pre><pre><em> </em></pre><p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong><em> : Corporate Governance, Gender, Profit Predictability</em></p><p><strong>ABSTRAK:</strong> Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis dan mendapatkan bukti empiris pengaruh tata  kelola perusahaan terhadap prediktabilitas laba bank umum konvensional di Indonesia selama masa pandemi Covid 19 dan pengaruh <em>gender</em> terhadap hubungan kausalitas antara tata kelola perusahaan dan prediktabilitas laba. Tata kelola diproksikan dengan komposisi dewan komisaris, <em>size</em> dewan komisaris, kepemilikan institusional, kepemilikan manajerial dan komite audit, sedangkan <em>gender</em> merupakan rasio perempuan dalam dewan eksekutif perusahaan. Seluruh bank umum konvensional yang tertera di Bursa Effek Indonesia berjumlah 43 bank dan merupakan populasi dalam riset ini. Sampel diperoleh sebanyak 33 bank dengan metode pengambilan sampel menggunakan <em>purposive sampling. </em>Analisis Regresi Moderasi digunakan sebagai<em> </em>teknik analisis data. Hasil yang diperoleh dalam penelitian ini yaitu bahwa ukuran dewan komisaris, kepemilikan institusional, kepemilikan manajerial terbukti berpengaruh terhadap prediktabilitas laba. G<em>ender</em> secara signifikan memperkuat pengaruh kepemilikan manajerial terhadap prediktabilitas laba. Penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa perlunya penerapan mekanisme tata kelola yang baik, permasalahan yang akan terjadi dapat dikenali lebih awal oleh bank dan dilakukan tindak lanjut  penyempurnaan yang lebih cepat, sehingga bank dapat bertahan dalam keadaan krisis. Penegasan dampak dan peran perempuan di dalam dewan dapat mempengaruhi hubungan kausalitas tata kelola perusahaan terhadap prediktabilitas laba.</p><p><strong>Kata kunci</strong> : Tata Kelola Perusahaan, Gender, Prediktabilitas Laba</p>

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