ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL EFFICIENCY OF COOPERATIVE BANKS IN AN ENVIRONMENT OF LOW INTEREST RATES

2017 ◽  
Vol XIX (4) ◽  
pp. 110-116
Author(s):  
Ryszard Kata
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Negative Trend ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Financial Efficiency ◽  
Group Integration ◽  
Low Interest Rates ◽  
Cooperative Banks

The economic and financial efficiency of co-operative banks in Poland was analyzed in the context of low NBP interest rates. The analysis covered the years 2012-2016. It has been shown that low interest rates make it difficult for cooperative banks to maintain high economic and financial efficiency. Cooperative banks reacted to falling interest rates, but the reversal, the negative trend in their financial performance, will require changes in their business model and strengthen intra-group integration to reduce the operating costs of banks.

scholarly journals Financial Inclusion and Poverty Alleviation in Kenya: Effects of Mobile Loan Interest Rates on the Financial Performance of SMEs in Urban Informal Settlements

Science Mundi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-104
Author(s):  
Margaret Murage
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Low Interest Rates ◽  
Urban Informal Settlements ◽  
The Government

The aim of this study is to assess the effect of interest rates on the financial performance of SMEs in urban informal settlements in Kenya. This study adopts the descriptive survey design. Data were collected from 120 SMEs in the 6 wards of Mathare Sub-County. Data was collected using semi-structured questionnaires. It was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings show that low-interest rates could influence the propensity of SMEs to apply for these loans. The ability to pay mobile loans without problems due to low interest rates enhanced the performance of the respondents’ businesses. This goes on to contribute to poverty alleviation in urban informal settlements through enhanced access to capital; one of the goals of the world bank. This has further ripple effects since it can contribute to income diversification for the inhabitants of poor urban areas. The following recommendations were made. The government should also reduce interest rates to lower the cost of mobile phone interests as well as the interest rates of other loan products. Mobile loan lenders should also ensure that their loan products are affordable for the urban poor.

FINANCIAL EFFICIENCY OF COOPERATIVE BANKS LED BY WOMEN IN POLAND

2017 ◽  
Vol XIX (3) ◽  
pp. 104-109
Author(s):  
Sławomir Juszczyk ◽  
Marta Idasz-Balina
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Financial Efficiency ◽  
Cooperative Banks ◽  
Financial Result

The main objective of the study was to determine whether the fact that the chairpersons of the boards of cooperative banks in Poland are women, it affects the financial performance of these banks. The study used data for the years 2010-2014 from 40 cooperative banks in Poland. In the course of the study, it was found that the banks managed by women are significantly smaller than men’s managed banks, and hence the financial result is generally lower. However, the financial performance ratios in these banks were generally higher. Smaller banks are generally in rural areas, and banks with a larger total balance sheet are usually located in urban areas.

scholarly journals Economic and mathematical modeling of industrial enterprise business model financial efficiency estimation

2020 ◽  
Vol 166 ◽  
pp. 13025
Author(s):  
Mykola Havrylenko ◽  
Vira Shiyko ◽  
Liliana Horal ◽  
Inesa Khvostina ◽  
Natalia Yashcheritsyna
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Industrial Enterprise ◽  
Financial Efficiency ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Financial Condition ◽  
Methods Of Calculation ◽  
Integral Measure ◽  
Efficiency Estimation

The article proposes two methods for evaluating the financial efficiency of a business model of industrial enterprises. In order to evaluate the financial efficiency of the business model of an industrial enterprise, a system of single indicators for assessing the financial condition of the enterprise by such components as financial stability, liquidity and solvency, business activity and profitability was formed. Fishburne’s rule weights the major components of an integral measure of an enterprise’s business model financial performance. In addition, an integral measure of the financial performance of the business model is modeled using the fuzzy set method and taxonomic analysis, which will help to evaluate the financial performance level of the business model more objectively. The comparative analysis of the obtained results by different methods of calculation of integral indicators is carried out.

Dimensionen und Effekte der Service Excellence im deutschen Bankenmarkt

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Weimann
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Customer Expectations ◽  
Service Excellence ◽  
Savings Banks ◽  
Excellent Service ◽  
Low Interest Rates ◽  
Management Concept

Hardly any other sector has seen as many drastic changes as the banking industry. Above all, strong declines in earnings due to persistently low interest rates, high cost levels as well as continuously increasing competition intensity have called this business model into question. Thus, banks are facing the challenge of meeting higher customer expectations caused by digitalisation in order to improve their profitability and reshape their business model. The ‘service excellence’ approach could prove helpful in this regard. Service excellence is a management concept that aims to appeal to customers by providing excellent service quality and, consequently, to strengthen banks’ customer relations. On the basis of a quantitative survey with 228 cooperative banks and 62 savings banks (Sparkassen) in Germany, this thesis analyses the dimensions and economic effects of service excellence on the German banking market. In doing so, it evaluates a total of four dimensions with a significant impact on service excellence.

Remaking Retirement

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
The United States ◽  
Older Population ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cost Of Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Low Interest Rates ◽  
Key Aspects

Around the world, people nearing and entering retirement are holding ever-greater levels of debt than in the past. This is not a benign situation, as many pre-retirees and retirees are stressed about their indebtedness. Moreover, this growth in debt among the older population may render retirees vulnerable to financial shocks, medical care bills, and changes in interest rates. Contributors to this volume explore key aspects of the rise in debt across older cohorts, drill down into the types of debt and reasons for debt incurred by the older population, and review policies to remedy some of the financial problems facing older persons, in the United States and elsewhere. The authors explore which groups are most affected by debt, and they also identify the factors causing this important increase in leverage at older ages. It is clear that the economic and market environments are influential when it comes to saving and debt. Access to easy borrowing, low interest rates, and the rising cost of education have had important impacts on how much people borrow, and how much debt they carry at older ages. In this environment, the capacity to manage debt is ever more important as older workers lack the opportunity to recover for mistakes.

scholarly journals Special Issue “Interplay between Financial and Actuarial Mathematics”

Risks ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Corina Constantinescu ◽  
Julia Eisenberg
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Control Theory ◽  
Option Pricing ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Financial Mathematics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Actuarial Mathematics ◽  
Mortality Models ◽  
Low Interest Rates

The Special Issue aims to highlight the interaction between actuarial and financial mathematics, which, due to the recent low interest rates and implications of COVID-19, requires an interlace between actuarial and financial methods, along with control theory, machine learning, mortality models, option pricing, hedging, unit-linked contracts and drawdown analysis, among others [...]

Counter-cyclical public venture capital: Debt-funding as an anti-austerity innovation strategy

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Etzkowitz ◽  
Henry Etzkowitz
Keyword(s):  
Venture Capital ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Innovation Strategy ◽  
Productive Capacity ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Low Interest Rates ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Business Cycle ◽  
Smart Specialization ◽  
Private Venture

This article outlines a counter-cyclical innovation strategy to achieve prosperity, derived from an innovative project, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). We identify an ‘innovation paradox’ in that the very point in the business cycle, when legislators are tempted to view austerity as a cure for economic downturns and to reduce innovation spend, is when an increase is most needed to create new industries and jobs and innovate out of recession or depression. It is both desirable and possible that policymakers resist the urge to capitulate to the innovation paradox. During periods that exhibit subdued inflation, elevated spare productive capacity, and low government borrowing rates, governments should increase their borrowings and use the proceeds to boost investment targeted towards innovation. We show how the State of California successfully utilized debt financing, traditionally reserved for physical infrastructure projects, to stimulate the development of intellectual infrastructure. Finally, we recommend a halt to European austerity policies and a ‘triple helix’ broadening of narrow ‘smart specialization’ policies that chase a private venture capital chimera. Europe should seize the present macroeconomic opportunity of low interest rates, borrow for innovation and be paid back manifold by ‘picking winners’, similarly to what the USA has been doing through DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) with GPS, as a response to Sputnik, the Internet and artificial intelligence, or the driverless car, formerly known as the ‘autonomous land vehicle’ in its military guise. Proactively targeted macroscopic investments in innovation are needed to solve the productivity/employment puzzle and foster the transition to a knowledge-based society.

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