A 13 page paper assessing governance at 2 private and 2 state-owned banks in India. Businesses within the same industry operate by standard means in many respects, but each is different in its management, goals for the future and perspective on the value of customers. The process of assessing governance at four Indian banks reveals immense differences in these factors. The banks examined here are ICICI Bank Ltd., HDFC Bank Ltd., State Bank of India and Global Trust Bank. The focus is on financial performance for two years prior to and two years after significant capital inflow. In the case of ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank, these points were when they became the first and second Indian banks to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Includes 2 figures and 5 tables. Bibliography lists 14 sources.

This 12 page paper looks at Islamic banking and finance. This 12 page paper looks at the history and development of Islamic banking and finance, the characteristics of the Islamic banking, the different types of products that are available as well as the regulation of the industry in the UAE and the challenges and potential within the industry. The bibliography cites 11 sources.

A 9 page paper discussing the merger of New England's largest banking institutions and including a brief discussion of the trend of consolidation within the financial industry. Banking industry analysts watch the melding of the two dissimilar companies with interest and warnings of increased operations risk, but with optimism for the new organization's ultimate success. Individual investors and banking customers, however, are far less charitable and the Federal Reserve is watching the evolution with an eye toward ensuring that adequate competition exists in New England when the two entities combine to form the nation's eighth-largest bank. Fleet Financial will need to ensure that investors and customers are contented enough so that it maintains earnings; otherwise, the new organization could itself become the takeover target of a still-larger bank. Bibliography lists 12 sources.

This 7 page paper highlights how globalization and colonization have impacted the cotton industry, and specifically the countries of China, India and Pakistan. This paper highlights the economic and political ramifications of globalization on the cotton industry. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 6-page paper examines Bank of American and the banking industry and determines how these two fit into Michael Porter's generic competition model. Bibliography lists 5 sources.