Campaign finance reform

Over the past decade, the “too-big-to-fail policy” has caused a slow deterioration of the US financial system in many ways. This term was coined after the financial crisis of 2008, and is more formally known as the “problem in which regulators are reluctant to close down large financial institutions because doing so might precipitate a financial crisis (Mishkin p.218).” In this situation, the government issues guarantees of settlements of uninsured creditors to large financial institutions. The…

In today’s society, there are many legal risks that could arise within an organization. Employees could embezzle money from the company, company data may be exposed, or a hacker could enter into the secure company network. All of these situations have legal risks associated to them and the legal risks would cost the company thousands of dollars, which could make the company go out of business. In order to reduce these legal risks, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was implemented by Congress to help…

Since the ultimate goal of personal finance is to make yourself cash positive each month, it is important to get rid of as much frivolous debt as possible. Any of your income that is financed by debt is temporary, and any of your income used to service debt payments…

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala needs no introduction; he is famous as warren buffet of India. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala is a qualified Chartered accountant by profession. He made his first investment when BSE Sensex was at 150 in 1985 with investment amount Rs. 5000. Currently, his total wealth is more than 8000 crores. He run asset management firm named Rare Enterprises where he manages his own portfolio as a partner. Many people follow Jhunjhunwala’s portfolio religiously. His latest stock portfolio is given…

Bunga Raya Bank was known as one of the largest and well known national bank that prides itself on achieving healthy profits each of year. But, along the few years, the economy was in its state of undesirable. This problem has to affect the profits of Bunga Raya Bank which can be seen that the profits were influenced by the inflation rate as well as they also have to compete with other major banks. Inflation is basically known as two terms either the rising price of goods or fall value of money…

4.2 Stakeholders The consideration given to stakeholders is an important part that helps Intesa SanPaolo in its banking business. The social and economic context in continuous evolution and the increasing awareness of consumers require every company to know how to cope with the new dynamic scenarios. For this reason, a structured approach to stakeholder engagement is fundamental, also in terms of reputational risk management. For the Intesa SanPaolo Group, the stakeholder engagement is a key…

Precision Machines is looking into the company’s future to determine their financial needs and, in order to do so, they are preparing a financial plan to see what they need and how they need to address future operations of the company. The financial plan they are creating is based upon the historical aspects of the company. This means that the company knows historically that their sales are 30% cash and 70% credit. They collect 50% of their credit sales the month after the sale and the other 50%…

Pentair (PNR) – Buy this Dividend Aristocrat with 40 Consecutive Years of Dividend Growth Pentair Corp (NYSE: PNR) has a long history of dividend growth, raised its dividends over the last 40 years. At present, the company offers a quarterly dividend of $0.33 per share, yielding around 2.21%. Pentair is a diversified industrial manufacturing company. It is operating in four business segments, including Flow & Filtration Solutions, Valves & Controls, Technical Solutions and Water Quality Systems…

Four months into her job as CEO of the third-largest private bank, Shikha Sharma has effected a series of organizational changes in Axis Bank. The bank has now realigned its business into four strategic business units (SBU). The four new SBUs of the bank now are retail banking, SME and agriculture, corporate banking, non-banking retail subsidiaries and corporate centre. Earlier, the bank had a vertical structure with executive directors in charge of retail, corporate banking, mid-corporate and…

INTROUCTION Asset liability management: It is the management of assets and liabilities in such a way that the net earnings from interest is maximized and minimizing the overall risk associated with it. So it is a tool that helps bank to take business decisions in a known window with the view of the risk that the bank is associated with. Portfolio management: Portfolio is a combination of financial instruments like bonds, common stocks, banknotes, debentures and other instruments. The process of…