Recently added articles from The Banker:
This Month: Report - Siemens Financial Services Report Putting Capital To Work - SFS Report Identifies Frozen Capital In Private Sector Business.(Report)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Billions of euros, both working capital and liquid assets, are inefficiently tied up in private sector businesses at the very time when the credit crunch is starting to bite in the "real" economy, according to a new report, Putting Capital to Work, produced by Siemens Financial Services ...
Karina's Kolumn: Born Talker Unfazed By Politics - State Bank Of India Chairman Om Prakash Bhatt Tells Karina Robinson How The Bank's Mission Is More Than Delivering Higher Profits.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: KARINA ROBINSON Om Prakash Bhatt, chairman of State Bank of India (SBI), a bank with 134 million customers and more than 10,000 branches, mumbled that he found my title of "senior" editor "intimidating". The softly-spoken SBI-lifer, who recently spearheaded a campaign to ...
Environment & Resources: Commodities - Best Of Times, Worst Of Times - With Oil Prices Predicted To Hit $200 A Barrel, Every Bank Wants A Piece Of The Rising Energy Market, Not Least To Offset Shrinking Revenues Elsewhere. But High Prices, Capital Constra.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: GERALDINE LAMBE Commodities are big news. Food prices have spiked by more than 60% in the past 18 months causing food riots in more than 30 countries, while crude oil prices have risen by 697% (at the last count) since 2001. For banks with big commodities ...
Central & Eastern Europe: Baltics - Nordic Banks Braced For Baltic Slowdown - As Recessions Loom In The Baltic States, Scandinavian Banks Have Reason To Be Grateful For Their Reliable Domestic Earnings, Reports Karina Robinson.(Financial report)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: KARINA ROBINSON Scandinavian banks are being forced to factor in the possibility of a hard landing from their exposure to banking in the Baltics, a component in their international expansion and diversification strategy. Mostly however, they are reasonably ...
Africa: Egypt - World Slowdown Stems Egypt's Upward Trend - The Successful Transformation Of Egypt's Banking Sector Has Hit Trouble. Charlie Corbett Reports On How Global Financial Turmoil And Soaring Inflation Have Hit The Banks' Consolidation Efforts.
Aug 01, 2008 ... The government-backed transformation of the Egyptian banking sector hit a stumbling block in June. Since 2004, when the reform process started, plans to purge Egypt of its anachronistic and opaque state banks to form an efficient and profitable privatised regime have gone without a hitch. ...
Technology: Shaping Tomorrow - There Are No Secrets Anymore - Forget About Keeping Any Aspect Of Your Business Quiet - The Internet Has Put An End To That. Now It Is Up To Banks To Make Social Networking And Blogging Sites Friends Rather Than Foes. By Chr.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: CHRIS SKINNER Bankers need to realise that the world is transparent due to the new world of the internet. Nothing can be controlled or hidden anymore. You cannot keep anything secret. It will all get out there, some way, somehow. The truth of this can be seen ...