BRIEF HISTORY OF NIGERIAN BANKING A formal legal structure to banking in Nigeria is a relatively recent invention. Prior to 1952 there was no legislation governing the banking system in Nigeria. The British Bank of West Africa (BBWA) started operating in Nigeria by the year 1892. After the BBWA‚ Barclays Bank became the second expatriate bank to operate in Nigeria by the year 1917. The first indigenous bank‚ The Bank of Nigeria was founded in the year 1933 and also operated successfully. After the
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CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION The financial services industry has undergone substantial changes from regulatory‚ technological‚ cultural and economical forces‚ among others. One of the most serious results of these changes is the need for financial service companies to be marketing-oriented. Marketing oriented companies places emphasis on their clients and customers’ needs and wants‚ and determines how these needs and wants can be beneficially served. A necessary component of marketing orientation
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Emerging Trends in Economics and Management Sciences (JETEMS) 2(5):357-363 (ISSN:2141-7024) Fraud as a Negative Catalyst in the Nigerian Banking Industry Akindele R.I Department of Management and accounting Obafemi Awolowo University‚ Ile Ife‚ Nigeria ___________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Fraud in the Nigerian Banking Industry before the recent merger and acquisition and recapitalisation efforts was at alarming rate. It has caused many banks to collapse
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Banking Industry The Banking Industry was once a simple and reliable business that took deposits from investors at a lower interest rate and loaned it out to borrowers at a higher rate. However deregulation and technology led to a revolution in the Banking Industry that saw it transformed. Banks have become global industrial powerhouses that have created ever more complex products that use risk and securitisation in models that only PhD students can understand. Through technology development‚
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implemented to find out how well customer service bankers function‚ and the studies have found that the exploratory research was used in order to identify all problems associated with customer service. A casual research will identify the cause-and-effect relationship between the bank employees and its customers by sending out surveys to all customers in order to receive their input on their bank experience. A non-probability sampling method will be used to allow the sample to be selected on the basis
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Banking Sector Reforms in India *Manoj Kumar Assistant Professor‚ Deptt. of Commerce‚ N.M.Govt. (PG) College‚ Hansi ABSTRACT Banking sector reforms were introduced to remove the deficiencies in banking sector. The lack of autonomy is reflected in the fact that there is a common wage package for all bank employees irrespective of the health of the bank concerned. Kannan‚ the Chief Executive Officer of Bank of Baroda‚ says: "Give us the freedom to fix our own wages and offer market remuneration to
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economic crisis to its status of third largest economy in the world by 2011‚ India has grown significantly in terms of economic development. So has its banking sector. During this period‚ recognizing the evolving needs of the sector‚ the Finance Ministry of Government of India (GOI) set up various committees with the task of analyzing India’s banking sector and recommending legislation and regulations to make it more effective‚ competitive and efficient.[1] Two such expert Committees were set up under
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THE BANKING INDUSTRY AND THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY POST-CONSOLIDATION By B. B. EBONG GROUP MANAGING DIRECTOR/CHIEF EXECUTIVE UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC ABSTRACT Against the backdrop of the role of banks as financial intermediaries and their function as the engine of growth of the economy‚ this paper examines the extent to which the banking industry has helped to stimulate economic activities in Nigeria and what the prognosis looks like in the post-consolidation era. The paper notes that the banking industry
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Central Bank of Nigeria BANKING REFORM AND ITS IMPACT ON THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY Sanusi Lamido Sanusi‚ CON Governor Central Bank of Nigeria Being a Lecture delivered at the University of Warwick’s Economic Summit‚ UK 17th February‚ 2012 Prepared by the Research Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria Protocol 1. It is a great honor to be invited to address the Warwick Economic Summit‚ which has become one of the largest academic conferences in Europe. I wish to commend
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Equities | Sector Update Nigerian Banks: Q3 Earnings Preview October 2011 As Nigerian banks’ Q3 earnings season approaches‚ we express our thoughts on how developments within the quarter will impact banks’ earnings. With fading concerns on asset quality‚ shifting competitive landscape and expanding loan books‚ banks are likely to build on the generally impressive H1‚ 2011 earnings performance despite a challenging operating environment. Banking in Q3: A Challenging Macroeconomic
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