The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) takes a number of monetary policy decisions‚ including a change in the level of money supply (M2)‚ the Minimum Rediscount Rate (MRR)‚ or a change in the exchange rate. The central bank defines money supply in two ways: narrow and broad money. Narrow money (M1) is defined to include currency in circulation plus current account deposits with commercial banks. Broad money measures the total volume of money supply in the economy and is defined as narrow money plus savings
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APPRAISAL OF THE ECONOMIC IMPLICATION OF ELECTRONIC BANKING IN NIGERIA BANKS (A CASE STUDY OF DIAMOND BANK PLC NIGERIA) CHAPTER ONE 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Before the emergence of modern banking system‚ banking operation was manually done which lead to a slow down in settlement of transactions. This manual system involves posting transactions from one ledger to another which human handles. Figures or counting of money which should be done through computers
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Located in West Africa and bordering the Atlantic‚ Nigeria is a big country that occupies 356‚667 square miles with a total population of 168 million. Nigeria is abundant in natural resources like coal‚ gold‚ lead‚ iron‚ salt‚ copper‚ and zinc‚ but it is best known as a big producer of oil. Thanks to its size‚ population‚ and resources‚ Nigeria is dubbed as “the giant of Africa” (Falola‚ 4). According to World Bank Data of 2010‚ Nigeria has an annual percentage growth rate as 8.0%‚ one of the world’s
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INTRODUCTION According to the World Bank reports about 1.1 billion people live in extreme poverty for less than US$ 1. The extreme poverty being in the developing countries of which 9% are from East Asia and the Pacific and 41% are from Sub-Saharan Africa. Tanzania remains one of the 10 poorest countries in the world. Poverty remains widespread and deep‚ with half of Tanzanians living under conditions of deprivation‚ concentrated in the rural areas. Commercial Banks contribute to economic growth through
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their daily extension services so that they will be able to transfer these innovations to the rural farmers (Iwena‚ 1998). Before the leadership structure as it concerns extension programmes in Nigeria can be known‚ there is need for knowledge of the extension programmes in Nigeria. According to Salawu et al (2008)‚ agricultural extension programmes in Nigeria can be categorized into two groups which include: • Government-organized extension programmes and • Extension programmes organized and sponsored
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THE IMPACT OF BANK REGULATION ON THE OPERATIONS OF COMMERCIAL BANKS IN GHANA: A CASE STUDY OF HFC BANK. Contents CHAPTER ONE 3 INTRODUCTION 3 1. 1 Background of the Study 3 1.2 Statement of the Problem 4 1.3 Research Objectives 5 1.4 Research Questions 5 1.5 Significance of the research. 5 1.6 Organization of the Study 5 1.7 Limitations of the study 6 Chapter Two 7 Literature Review 7 2.1 Definition of Terminologies 7 2.2 Regulation in the banking industry 8 2.2.1 Objectives
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Role of Commercial Banks in the Economic Development of a Country: Commercial banks are one of the three primary agents which help circulating funds in the market. Commercial banks provide loans and corporate bonds to the households‚ new start ups and small medium enterprises to run their businesses. It also obtains money from the households and invests that money to other profitable investments. The money held as customer account then accrues interest which is given to the customer in the form
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Organizational Structure: “It is the formal arrangement of jobs within an organization” Developing an organization structure manager go through the process called organizational design‚ that involves decision about six key elements i.e work specialization‚ departmentalization and formalization etc. Now we analyze the Citibank’s organizational structure according to these factors. Work Specilization: As work specialization is used to describe the degree to which activities is organization are
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Mishra was perturbed. As an AGM of the prestigious State Bank of India Staff College at Hyderabad‚ he was scheduled to take a session with the young probationers on the benefits of the restructuring as suggested in the Mckinsey Report. He was perturbed‚ not only because the report was something that was not easy to understand‚ but the portions of the report that he had read and understood‚ he was not convinced about. Much had changed since the time when he himself had started his career as a probationer
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BASEL III AND ABOLITION OF UNIVERSAL BANKING MODEL – IMPLICATION FOR NIGERIAN BANKS Introduction: In the aftermath of the economic recession which pulled down many global banks and exposed multiple weaknesses in regulation and banking structures‚ the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision agreed to new rules on the minimum level (capital ratio) and composite structure of Banks capital on the 12th of September‚ 2010. Broadly speaking‚ the new rules which are widely referred to as Basel III (and are
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