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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"financial products"”.
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Collective intelligence in financial markets : does consumer sentiment influence valuation of financial products?
This paper examines the relationship between the public mood associated with the economies of Italy, Spain and Greece, and prices of Credit Default Swaps on sovereign bonds of aforementioned countries. The effect of the changes in the public mood was measured by Granger causality tests and linear …
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Essays on the design and targeting of financial products : evidence from field experiments in India
… of microfinance contracts and how to target financial products using community information. In Chapter 1, I report on a field experiment in India that assesses (1) whether community members have information about one another that can be used to identify high-ability entrepreneurs and (2) …
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A new approach to product development in Islamic finance
… banking needs by complying with the Islamic financial law. In this research some of the most prevalent financial products in Islamic Finance are surveyed and various forms of Islamic asset securitizations (Sukuks) are studied. Two issues of Islamic asset securitizations (Sukuks) are analyzed …
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The risk appetite of development finance institutions (DFIs) and funding for start-ups in South Africa
… funding SMEs specifically startup related loan products than private DFI BP. The study's findings also illustrates that South African DFI's risk appetites have a weaker negative relationship with shorter-term financial products than longer-term financial products indicating a higher risk …
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Application of Agent-Based Modeling: Simulating Financial Systemic Risk and Contagion within Housing and Financial Markets
… (ABM) to model systemic risk in the housing and financial markets from 1986 to 2017 and provides a unique approach to simulating the financial market along with demonstrating the phenomenon of emergence resulting from the interconnected-behavior of consumers, banks and the Federal Reserve. …
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The role of Islamic finance in tackling financial exclusion in the UK
Abstract The role of Islamic finance in tackling financial exclusion in the UK As the fundamental principles of Islamic finance are socio-economic justice and benevolence (Al-Adle Wal-ihsan), some commentators have raised serious questions about the social benefits that Islamic banks have brought …
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Quantifying Model Risk in Option Pricing and Value-at-Risk Models
Financial practitioners use models in order to price, hedge and measure risk. These models are reliant on assumptions and are prone to ”model risk”. Increased innovation in complex financial products has lead to increased risk exposure and has spurred research into understanding model risk and its …
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The impact of the financial advisory and intermediary services act of 2002 on consumer awareness and financial service providers in South Africa
The financial services industry is characterized by product suppliers having more information than consumers regarding product features and services. The purpose of this study is to explore this information asymmetry with particular reference to the Insurance Industry. Financial advisors, acting as …
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The functional perspective of financial innovation and real estate
… schools of thought dominate theories regarding financial innovation. One seeks to explain the process of security design in terms of relatively static organizations creating and promoting their wares and services competitively, generally in response to shifts in technology, taxes or regulation. …
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The regulation of crypto exchanges providing stablecoin services in South Africa: Should they be regulated as banks?
Crypto assets have been declared to be financial products in South Africa and crypto asset service providers (‘CASPs') are required to seek a licence under the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act 37 of 2002 (‘FAIS Act') to provide advice or intermediary services in respect of …
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Islamic finance versus conventional finance and the taxation consequences.
… and its tax implications for investors and financial institutions. The nature of Islamic financial products is compared to its conventional financial counterpart to identify whether differences exist between Islamic and conventional finance from a tax perspective. The proposed changes to the …
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Mitglieder der Generation Z als Abnehmer von Produkten des Retailbankings – eine theoretische und empirische Analyse unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von zukünftigen Hochschulabsolventen der Betriebswirtschaftslehre
… 2010) as young and partly future consumers of financial products and financialservices in German retail banking, attempts were made to give a possible prediction of future demand behaviour of this cohort. With the help of compiled theoretical and empirical research results, a more precise …
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The demand for savings services among the urban poor - evidence from the Khayelitsha panel study (2000-2004)
In signing its charter in 2002, the South African financial sector voluntarily committed itself to providing first order retail financial service access to the un-banked by 2008. Although much of the media attention and academic literature has been focused towards the challenge of providing basic …
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The role of financial literacy in financial inclusion in emerging markets: evidence from South Africa
… and development finance institutions to improve financial inclusion, two billion people in the world remain unbanked. The majority of the unbanked population is in the developing countries and mostly in the Sub-Saharan region. This is of huge concern to many governments and their international …
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Youth experiences using the South African financial system
… Organisation (ILO) have argued that promoting financial inclusion among young people is an important aspect of promoting their entry into the labour markets (Friedline & Rauktis, 2014). Rather than compare the experiences of the included against those who are excluded, this research explored …
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Maslaha: a New Approach for Islamic Bonds
… its entirety in determining sharia compliance of financial contracts in order to avoid increasing the level of risk faced by the participants in the Islamic finance sector. Impaired contracts, apart from increasing the level of risk, increase the probability of costly litigations and diminish the …
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Risk, Religion, and Islamic Microfinance
… characterize borrowers who choose between these financial products. For this study, field research was conducted in conjunction with the National Microfinance Bank (NMB) and the Development and Employment Fund (DEF) in Jordan. Overall, 143 conventional and 78 Islamic borrowers were surveyed for a …
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Productive and unproductive debt spending of microloans taken by urban borrowers (Johannesburg)
… institutions were moving towards the Financial Sustainability paradigm as opposed to Poverty Alleviation and Women Empowerment. Meyer (2002) showed that there are benefits to differential finance products targeted at borrowers from microlenders. This hung primarily on the purpose or …
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An Application Of Risk Contingent Credit Applied To New York Dairy Farms With U.S. Options On Class Iii Milk Futures
… become so severe that the residual impact on financial risk become acute. While financial risk is ever present, stress results only when conditions arise in which downside risk result in a return on assets insufficient to meet fixed financial obligations. Thus, it is proposed in this paper the …
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Stochastic Orders Applied to Insurance and Economics
… tool for decision-making under uncertainty. In Financial Risk and Actuarial Theory, multiple risk factors interact among themselves. Hence, the intricacy of decision-making among different insurance and financial products increases manifold. In light of this fact, we must model risks considering …
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