Mobile Banking and Commercial Bank Performance Nexus in Zimbabwe (2011-2021): Impact and Implications

The study investigated mobile banking and commercial banks’performance nexus in Zimbabwe for the period 2011-2021.The investigation employed a pragmatic approach and a descriptive design.Primary data as well as secondary data were used to achieve the study objectives.Questionnaires,interviews and documentary guides were used to collect primary and secondary data respectively.There were 108 questionnaires distributed to staff members and customers of 6 sampled commercial banks in Zimbabwe having mobile banking experience.The interview guide was administered to bank managers to get a deeper understanding of the topic under research and as a mitigation strategy for addressing the flaws of the questionnaires.Analysis of quantitative data utilised descriptive analysis tools,correlations analysis tools as well as regression analysis tools whereas theme analysis was used for qualitative data.SPSS version 26 was used for this purpose.The study implications established that mobile banking and commercial banks’performance nexus in Zimbabwe was significant and also enhanced mobile banking security capabilities and strengthened commercial banks’performance.The investigation concluded that mobile banking’s success in enhancing commercial banks’performance hinged on its ability to allow the user to get easier,cheaper and timely access to services.However,the study results showed that the cost of mobile banking services,government policies and intense competition inhibited the uptake of banking services.Commercial banks are recommended to continue strengthening the security of mobile banking services and to boost their uptake by bank customers in Zimbabwe.

Research on the Impact of Digital Transformation on the Business Performance of Commercial Banks

Nowadays,with the development of the digital economy,commercial banks are actively conducting digital transformation.Studying the impact of the digital transformation of commercial banks on their operating performance can help commercial banks form a stronger core competitiveness and promote high-quality financial development.Based on the above background,this article first describes the status and development of digital transformation and development of commercial banks,and secondly analyzes whether Chinese commercial banks’digital transformation is conducive to improving their operating performance.Thirdly,by selecting the data of the listed commercial banks in the ten years of 2012–2022,this article obtains the empirical testing of the digital transformation on different property rights.Finally,the higher the level of digitalization,the higher the digital level,the more significantly promotes the performance of commercial banks.Finally,based on the above analysis,this article puts forward feasibility opinions on commercial banks and related regulators.

The Mechanism of Internet Finance on the Assets and Business of Commercial Banks in China

Internet finance has structural impact and market impact on commercial banking.Various forms of Internet finance such as third-party payment,crowdfunding,P2P lending,and internet money funds have emerged.Due to their low cost,high efficiency,and diversification characteristics,an increasing number of people are utilizing Internet finance for their businesses.This trend significantly affects traditional commercial banking operations and presents challenges.In order to gain competitive advantages through Internet finance,this paper explores how commercial banks can leverage their traditional business models.It introduces the concept,model,and characteristics of Internet finance;analyzes the importance of asset management for commercial banks;examines the influence of Internet on commercial bank’s asset management;finally proposes countermeasures for the development of Internet finance.It is advocated that commercial banks should actively explore the road of“structured finance”with all-round structural reform in the future.

Study on Daily Accounting Profit Feasibility of Banking Based on Data Center

By the end of 2013, Chinese large-scaled commercial banks have basically completed the construction of IT banking system, in order to provide technical guarantee of deepening business operation and operation management reform. This indicates that our national banking industry information technology has been in a new level. This paper, based on the operation principle of commercial bank safety, liquidity and profitability, makes research on improving commercial banking profit data timeliness, accuracy, integrity and realizing daily accounting profit. According to survey, the four big banks have proposed the prospect of 2013 full scope implementing daily accounting profit. Thus, this paper, based on the profit accounting status of four big banks of data center, analyzes the feasibility of daily accounting profit and puts forward the relevant solutions.

A Tentative Analysis of the Use of Potential by Commercial Bank in Controlling Credit Scale

This article brings forward the conception of potential and filed potential in bank's competition under the inspiration of law of electric current in electrodynamics. It discusses the impact of potential shifting on commercial bank's credit scale and builds up a model for commercial bank to control the scale by credit pricing and risk policy in a dynamic way, and also gives some advice to domestic commercial bank for improving loan business, aiming to settle down the existing credit management problems.

The Efficiency Evaluation of Commercial Banks Based on DEA/TOPSIS

This paper brings forward an efficiency evaluation method based on DEA/FOPSIS for commercial banks. To avoid the slack of output index, the difference is taken into account in the weight of different output index, mending the shortage of traditional DEA evaluation methods.

Modifications on default probability calculation methods of commercial banks in China

This paper analyses two methods of calculating default probability adopted by foreign companies. Then, the paper suggests several methods of calculating loan default probability applicable to commercial banks in China, and gives the inadequacy of historic data in China.

Frontier Analysis of Nepalese Commercial Banks： DEA Approach

The efficiency of any organizations at manufacturing sector or service sector, profit making or non-profit making, is most important factor for survival and growth of the organization. The Data Envelopment Analysis （DEA） technique is one of the most popular and effective tool to measure relative efficiency hence is appropriate to make comparison among similar organizations with multiple output and input. This study performs frontier analysis and measures the relative efficiency of Nepalese commercial banks using DEA approach with two output and two input variables.

Commercial Banks Responses toward Small and Medium Enterprises Survival in the Context of the COVID-19 in Africa

The African government has implemented measures to sustain an investable economic downturn as it navigates the fiscal effect of the viral spread of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19).Consequently,commercial banks in Africa have come hand in hand toward support of SMEs activities by increasing their borrowing power and reducing interest rates.Despite all these measures the general performance of small and medium enterprises(SMEs)across Africa as pertains to revenues and profits has gone down.This paper provides a theoretical analysis of the measures undertaken by commercial banks to ensure proper running and continuity of activities in the SMEs sector in Africa.The research is founded on the theories of innovation diffusion and resource-based theory.This study will use a mixed research design,which will include descriptive and explanatory research.The proposed target population will be Africa’s thriving commercial banks.The primary and secondary data will be used from commercial bank reports and the central bureau of statistics reports across Africa.The data will be analyzed using a multiple linear regression model.The finding indicated that commercial banks in Africa have brought in solutions and measures to adapt to the crisis being implicated on the SMEs by the COVID-19 pandemic.Based on the findings of the desktop reviews,the study concludes that commercial banks have a significant influence on SMEs during this period of COVID-19,and with the assistance of the government,they have implemented more policies to support the activities of SMEs.

Efcient MCDM Model for Evaluating the Performance of Commercial Banks: A Case Stud

Evaluation of commercial banks(CBs)performance has been a signicant issue in the nancial world and deemed as a multi-criteria decision making(MCDM)model.Numerous research assesses CB performance according to different metrics and standers.As a result of uncertainty in decision-making problems and large economic variations in Egypt,this research proposes a plithogenic based model to evaluate Egyptian commercial banks’performance based on a set of criteria.The proposed model evaluates the top ten Egyptian commercial banks based on three main metrics including nancial,customer satisfaction,and qualitative evaluation,and 19 subcriteria.The proportional importance of the selected criteria is evaluated by the Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP).Furthermore,the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution(TOPSIS),Vlse Kriterijumska Optimizacija Kompro-misno Resenje(VIKOR),and COmplex PRoportional ASsessment(COPRAS)are adopted to rank the top ten Egyptian banks based on their performance,comparatively.The main role of this research is to apply the proposed integrated MCDM framework under the plithogenic environment to measure the performance of the CBs under uncertainty.All results show that CIB has the best performance while Faisal Islamic Bank and Bank Audi have the least performance among the top 10 CBs in Egypt.

The impact of gross domestic product on the financing and investment efficiency of China’s commercial banks

China’s commercial banks have developed at a very rapid speed in recent decades.However,with global economic development slowing down,the impact of gross domestic product growth as an exogenous factor cannot be ignored.Most existing studies only consider the internal factors of banks,and neglect their external economic factors.This study thus adopts an undesirable dynamic slacks-based measure under an exogenous model in combination with the Kernel density curve to explore the efficiency of state-owned commercial banks(SOCBs),joint-stock commercial banks(JSCBs),and urban commercial banks(UCBs)in China from 2012 to 2018.The results show that SOCBs have the highest overall efficiency,followed by JSCBs,then UCBs.The efficiencies of SOCBs,JSCBs,and UCBs in the financing stage are greater than those in the investment stage,indicating that the latter stage brings down overall efficiency.Thus,all commercial banks need to focus on the efficiency of non-performing loans and return on capital.Finally,SOCBs need to strengthen internal controls,reduce non-performing loans and improve return on capital.JSCBs should actively expand its business while controlling costs,and UCBs should optimize its management.

Comparison of Earnings Power between State Commercial Banks and Stock Banks

As earnings power is one of the primary capacities for commercial banks, by analyzing several indexes on banks' operation performance, this article compared the earnings power between the state banks and the stock banks in China. Through the analysis, some problems of domestic banks may be found and pointed out that the commercial bank should stress on the target of profit maximum to avoid the financial risks. With enough earnings power, the domestic banks can take the challenge with those foreign banks entering domestic money market.

Italian Banking Sector and Value Creation

The finn value is the fundamental topic of corporate finance. The value creation is the aim of economic initiatives, strategies, corporate policies, and all business activities, including banking. It depends, among other things, on size, legal form, and business model. Therefore, this paper wants to demonstrate and explain the differences about the value created in the Italian banking sector, where there is much diversity regarding size, legal form, and business model. This paper estimated and compared the value of Italian listed companies from 2010 to 2012 and found the result： Banks create more value if they are big and operate in investment banking. Furthermore, it proved that legal form hasn＇t influenced performance and value of banks.

Causes and solutions of non-performing loan in Chinese commercial banks

Non-Performing Loan （NPL） is one of the concrete embodiments of credit risk which banks take. NPL is a huge puzzle for Chinese commercial banks, so how to enhance risk management to improve assets quality and lower down NPL are of great importance to those banks.

Supervision of higher executives in commercial banks --From the view of game theory

After reviewing the bad news and corruptions of the higher executives in commercial banks recent years, the article first analyzes the characteristics of all these things, and use game theory to analyzes the actions between the higher executives and administrative sections and further construes with cost and benefit utility model, and finally put up some countermeasures.

Corporate Social Responsibility Practices in Bangladesh： A Statistical Analysis on State-Owned ＆ Private Commercial Banks

Corporate Social Responsibility （CSR） is integral and inseparable part of the long term business and sustainable growth and success, which plays an important role in promoting values both locally and internationally and usually is noticed as a developed-country sensation. As such, a great figure of literature on social arrangement of organizations has appeared in the perspective of developed states. CSR is an assurance of the organizations to action morally and add to financial progress of the people while improving the worth of the life of the employees and the local public in general. All over the world, CSR is essential for the organizations to confirm its sustainability. Though, CSR is a worldwide issue and all organizations practice it to some degree. In this paper, the authors made a determination to explain CSR and the related matter, and scrutinize the well-being performances of some State-Owned Commercial and Private Commercial Banks in Bangladesh. As the central bank of Bangladesh, ＂Bangladesh Bank＂ has advised the commercial banks to play an effective part in the well-being of people. Therefore, this paper is an attempt to discover the degree to which the mentioned banks in Bangladesh accomplish their CSR activities and to search the level of revelation for CSR in their annual reports. The research has been directed with secondary data collected from the annual reports of the mentioned banks of more than a few years. Against this backdrop, this paper debates the situation prevailing practices of CSR in mentioned banks. The paper presented here in the three fold continuingly reviews the literature concerning CSR in the context of the contemporary world; inspects the well-being practices and presents the data of CSR practices of the mentioned banks and lastly presents the limitations and recommendations for better CSR practices of the mentioned banks in Bangladesh.

Research Risk Factors and Management Competence of Vietnam Commercial Banks from 2006-2020

Banks are various credit institutions that perform all bank activities and other business activities. According to the nature and objectives of operation, types of banks include all the commercial banks, development banks, investment banks, policy banks, joint stock banks and other types of banks.

The Relationship Between Credit Risk Management and Profitability Among the Commercial Banks in Kenya

Banks operate in an environment of considerable risks and uncertainty. Credit risk has always been a vicinity of concern not only to bankers but to all in the business world because the risks of a trading partner not fulfilling his obligations in full on due date can seriously jeopardize the affairs of the other partner. Credit risk management in banks has become more important not only because of the series of financial crisis that the world has experienced in the recent past, but also the introduction of Basel II Accord. The objective of the study was to establish the relationship between credit risk management and profitability in commercial banks in Kenya, Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used in order to fulfill the main purpose of the study. A regression model was used to do the empirical analysis. The results obtained from the regression model show that there is an effect of credit risk management on profitability at a reasonable level. The findings and analysis reveal that credit risk management has an effect on profitability in all the commercial banks analyzed.

Franchise Value Change Information of State-owned Commercial Bank and Securities Investment Risk

The investment strategy choice of state-owned commercial bank is related to its franchise value change information. This paper analyzes the franchise value change information of state-owned commercial bank. The franchise value change information shows that the franchise value of state-owned Commercial Bank is descending. Along with the descending of the franchise value, state-owned commercial bank strengthens its high risk investment motive when it chooses its investment strategy. State-owned commercial bank tends to run the high risk of investing securities because its investment variety is very sparse. Based on the theoretical principle of how to control securities investment risk, this paper proposes some countermeasures and suggestions that state-owned commercial bank strengthen the control of its securities investment risk in order to perfect its investment strategy.

Determinants of Commercial Bank Financial Performance:Empirical Evidence From Ethiopia

The study examines factors that determine the financial performance of commercial banks in Ethiopia by using time series data over the period 2004-2019 on the sample of seven banks using secondary data.Moreover,the autoregressive distributed lag model was used.Under this study,both internal and external factors were included as the determinants of bank performance which was measured by loan-to-deposit ratio.The internal factors used in this study include capital adequacy ratio,non-performing loan and loan growth while the external factors are real GDP growth and inflation.Based on the results,specific variables except non-performing loan capital adequacy and loan growth affect banks performance significantly in the long run.In the short run,in addition to those two variables,non-performing loan also affects bank performance.Real GDP growth has negative significant effect on the banks performance in both long and short run.Inflation has insignificant effects on bank performances in both long and short run.