Advances in Research in Business and Finance, 2005: Banking and Insurance (Volume 3)

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This volume of conference proceedings includes research papers focusing on the theoretical concepts in the broad area of banking and insurance. These papers from researchers include a broad sweep of subjects relating to banking and insurance such as the lending rates of commercial banks and the impact on real sector, performance management of commercial banks, performance improvement, maintenance of capital adequacy, etc. This book analyzes contributions by different authors who estimate the utility of IT in improving the performance of banks by reducing non-performing assets. These include data envelopment techniques in improving the performance of the banks, data mining tools and techniques in detecting and managing frauds in credit card industry, internet banking and frauds in internet banking, etc. The articles here also focus on developing a model to evaluate banking technology effectiveness by using banking technology based- balanced scorecard. This book is therefore a comprehensive compendium on the overall aspects of banking, interest rates in banking system, performance improvement, estimation of organization capital in banks, IT and its impact on banking system, Internet banking, frauds and their detection through different techniques, and the use of technology to improve the performance of the banks. In addition, the book also contains a research paper that focuses on the economic importance of life insurance reserves over revenue earned from premiums in the insurance business.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Hilda Amalraj

Hilda Amalraj is a faculty member at ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad and is a fellow member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. She has been trained as an Information Systems Auditor and is well versed in Oracle Financials. She has corporate experience of five years in the capacity of Manager (Finance) with expertise in corporate finance, banking, credit appraisals, audit and taxation. She has been teaching at the ICFAI University for the past seven years in different professional programs of the institute which include CFA and MBA. She has conducted several Oracle Financial programs for professionals from the industry where she taught Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Auditing, Information Systems Audit, Taxation, Enterprise Solutions and Oracle Financials.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vunyale Narender

Vunyale Narender, a faculty member at ICFAI Business School, has done his Master of Commerce and is pursuing his Ph.D in the area of New Financing Instruments from Osmania University, Hyderabad. Narender has over ten years of experience in teaching and research. Apart from research and publication in the area of corporate finance, he has been the resource person for the training programs for faculty in financial accounting software (Tally) of the Osmania University. His current areas of interest are Corporate Finance, New Financing Instruments, and Banking.